Sentences with phrase «for carbon free energies»

No one thinks we should subject people to abject poverty to prepare for a carbon free energy system in the future.

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And then there's the raft of businesses, trade associations, manufactures and energy companies who, alongside green organisations, have been clamouring for a target to be set to have almost carbon free power by 2030.

He ran against Hillary Clinton for Senate in 2006, receiving 1.2 percent of the vote, and his platform calls for «universal single - payer health care, fully funded public schools, tuition - free SUNY and CUNY, building a carbon - free clean energy system — all paid for by restoring progressive tax rates on Wall Street and the rich.»

The administration has argued that preserving nuclear facilities for about a decade will allow New York to build out wind farms and solar arrays while maintaining the largest source of carbon - free energy in New York.

The plan also calls for free tuition at SUNY and CUNY schools, a transit system on par with Europe's and public investments to help make a transition to carbon - free energy.

Mohl said Cuomo's plan for a clean energy standard that gives nuclear plants extra money for providing carbon - free electricity is a positive development for the nuclear industry.

The Bulletin acknowledges that the increased use of carbon - free nuclear energy could help mitigate global warming brought on by fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions but concludes that the possibility of misusing enriched uranium and separated plutonium to create bombs is a «terrible trade - off» for trying to control climate change.

For all its merits as an everlasting, carbon - free source of energy, wind has its drawbacks.

Renewables growing, but other options lag The options for carbon - free energy are broad.

Government Applications — SMRs are specifically identified as carbon - free energy for U.S. government facilities to meet or exceed the carbon emissions reductions per Executive Order 13693 «Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade».

This advanced nuclear power plant has major appeal in domestic and international markets, offering a right - sized, cost - effective solution for carbon - free energy, and ensuring attainable power options to existing and emerging global economies demanding increased certainty of public safety, environmental protection and security from intrusion and proliferation of nuclear materials.

«SMR - 160 has prioritized safety in its design to produce a right - sized, passively - safe and cost - effective solution for carbon - free energy.

As the carbon fee gradually rose and as additional nations, for their own benefit, joined this bloc of nations, development of carbon - free energies and energy efficiency would have been spurred.

If, in contrast, leading nations agree in 2015 to have internal rising fees on carbon with border duties on products from nations without a carbon fee, a foundation would be established for phaseover to carbon free energies and stable climate.

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After his speech, Lovins squared off with Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers and Camco International's Joel Swisher to discuss how we might lay a foundation for carbon - free prosperity.

Since co-ops have lobbied for exemption from carbon controls (i.e., the Lieberman / Warner Energy Security Act of 2007), their emissions could be cost - free, making an economic justification for investment in unrequired cleanup unlikely at best.

Work by Hoffert, Caldeira, Green and others has show this to be an extremely dubious proposition, just based on simple mathematics — the world would need to deploy in a round number one nuclear power plant worth of carbon - free energy every day for the next fifty years.

In the current context, especially when there is no economic cost (at this time) for putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, a free market will not «know» to put the level of investment we need into solar energy, among other things.

... If we create the right environment for innovation, we can accelerate the pace of progress, develop and deploy new solutions, and eventually provide everyone with reliable, affordable energy that is carbon free.

It is time to design a carbon - and pollution - free energy economy for the 21st century.

Although power for municipal buildings comes from carbon - free hydropower, City Hall's solar array contributes additional clean energy to the city's energy mix.

One of the engineering papers appears to have a solution for the carbon - free energy problem.

They include: reliance on industry innovation that has been the driving force behind America's energy renaissance — innovation that launched the surge in shale energy production, prompting increased natural gas use and resulting in lower carbon emissions; embracing the successful, free - market approach to energy and economic growth while lowering emissions by basing decisions on sound science; and allowing more opportunities for energy exploration and development.

First, we write to urge your support for the path to 100 % carbon - free energy.

Craig provided the data to carbon footprint the construction of the London 2012 Olympics and tailored an embodied energy and carbon database for the $ 22 billion Masdar city in Abu Dhabi, which aspires to be the first zero carbon, zero waste and car free city.

Within the electric sector, fee avoidance options include energy efficiency, installing solar energy or some form of carbon - free distributed generation on your home or business, subscribing a community solar project, or signing up for a competitive supplier option that procures high levels of renewable energy credits (RECs) or procures clean energy directly through a long - term contract.

A clue to the author's motivation comes on the first page of the article, where he writes, «The switch of world powers first to decreasing the use of fossil fuel and then to carbon - free energy within the framework of the Kyoto Protocol may lead to economic collapse for Russia as a consequence of the reduction and, probably, even loss of the possibility to sell oil and natural gas on the world market.»

In that regard, I was the author of legislation that established a renewable energy portfolio standard for electric generation — that was our first effort at promoting renewables (which are carbon free).

Tom Steyer, a hedge fund billionaire and the head of NextGen Climate, a non-profit focused on climate change, issued an open letter on Friday that called for all 2016 Democrats to «lay out a clear and concrete plan to achieve at least 50 percent clean or carbon - free energy by 2030.»

... Redirecting more $ 250 billion in subsidies in industrial countries away from coal and oil and putting them behind carbon - free technologies; Creating a large fund, which has been estimated at about $ 300 billion a year for a decade, to transfer clean energy to poor countries.

The former vice president and greentech investor calls for the United States to generate nothing but renewable and carbon - free energy within 10 years.

For example, companies that manufacture energy - intensive goods and are subject to carbon costs in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, California, and Quebec are also eligible for free pollution allowances and other government - provided compensation to shield them from competitive riFor example, companies that manufacture energy - intensive goods and are subject to carbon costs in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, California, and Quebec are also eligible for free pollution allowances and other government - provided compensation to shield them from competitive rifor free pollution allowances and other government - provided compensation to shield them from competitive risk.

So if someone wants to build a home that is an energy hog, maybe they should be free to do so — if we can find a way to make them pay for the real cost — including utility infrastructure, transportation infrastructure, carbon and environmental mitigation.

Recognizing that no climate policy will focus on depopulation or reducing wealth generation, Pielke argues that setting objectives for efficiency gains in specific economic sectors and for the expansion of carbon - free energy supplies would be a first step in the right direction to make the UK a world - leader in the actual practice of carbon policy.

I just wish that, at some point in his soon - expiring tenure as head of the House Science Committee, he brought some of this enthusiasm for carbon - free technology to other, more immediately actionable domains of energy policy.

A basic requirement for phasing down fossil fuel emissions is abundant carbon - free electricity, which is the most rapidly growing form of energy and also has the potential to provide energy for transportation and heating of buildings.

* 1 Skyla Wagstaff (Animal Justice Party) platform includes: AJP has clear Key Objectives surrounding renewable energy including to rapidly transform to a carbon free energy infrastructure, prohibiting any fossil fuel expansion, and a carbon tax on both coal and animal agriculture industries to pay for clean energy solutions, sustainable plant - based food agricultural systems, education and the protection of existing forests and marine habitats.

If, in contrast, leading nations agree in 2015 to have internal rising fees on carbon with border duties on products from nations without a carbon fee, a foundation would be established for phaseover to carbon free energies and stable climate.

Rather than engage the climate policy proposals I and others have put forward — like substituting prizes for subsidies, reducing regulatory barriers for alternative energies, increasing industry's carbon efficiency, and promoting efficiency gains in developing nations where such investments are most cost effective — they attack a straw man of «conservative orthodoxy that global warming can be overcome by private companies operating in free markets with little or no help from the government.»

As the carbon fee gradually rose and as additional nations, for their own benefit, joined this bloc of nations, development of carbon - free energies and energy efficiency would have been spurred.

They say favoring wood could actually boost carbon emissions, not curb them, for many decades, and that wind and solar energy — emissions - free from the start — are a better bet for the climate.

At present, 30 % of the power that Platte River offers to its owner communities comes from wind, solar and other carbon - free energy sources, but the firm signed a PPA for a 150MW wind plant in January that will bring that percentage to 48 %.

Starting in April 2017, the Clean Energy Standard requires all six New York investor - owned utilities and other energy suppliers to pay for the intrinsic value of carbon - free emissions from nuclear power plants by purchasing Zero - Emission CrEnergy Standard requires all six New York investor - owned utilities and other energy suppliers to pay for the intrinsic value of carbon - free emissions from nuclear power plants by purchasing Zero - Emission Crenergy suppliers to pay for the intrinsic value of carbon - free emissions from nuclear power plants by purchasing Zero - Emission Credits.

For a given power source, the emissions released during its construction put it into «carbon debt» and it takes a while of generating carbon - free energy for it to work itself to the break - even poiFor a given power source, the emissions released during its construction put it into «carbon debt» and it takes a while of generating carbon - free energy for it to work itself to the break - even poifor it to work itself to the break - even point.

Whitman, who is now the co-chair of the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, a trade group that promotes nuclear power, made a strong push for nuclear power, saying the industry is safe, cost - effective and carbon - free.

Nuclear energy is considered one of a diverse mix of technologies needed to produce clean, carbon - free power for our nation.

I was responsible for the motherhood statement that «You can have lots of carbon free energy without nuclear or coal».

If we make the investment in a carbon - free energy infrastructure and another country does not, we will enjoy an enormous competitive advantage over that country for doing the right thing.

If we bear the expense of embracing a carbon - free energy infrastructure and another country does not, we will be at t a competitive disadvantage for doing the right thing.