Sentences with phrase «forms of fossil fuel»

It is one of the most greenhouse polluting and least desirable forms of fossil fuel from an environmental point of view.

So one monitors the decline in the conventional forms of fossil fuel and then predicts the trends in use of alternative forms of energy.

It make no sense to express a commitment to addressing climate change and simultaneously pursue ever - larger investments in ever - more extreme forms of fossil fuel energy.

They give us a paycheck to help them milk the wealth from our land in the form of fossil fuel, minerals, raw materials and food; pay us to process it into pretty, Twinkie - packages of stuff that we «just can't live without», and then sell it back to us and others at a profit that puts them on easy street.

Moving forward with a campaign pledge to unravel former President Obama's sweeping plan to curb global warming, Trump today is set to sign an executive order that will suspend, rescind or flag for review more than a half - dozen measures in an effort to boost domestic energy production in the form of fossil fuels.

Today more religious institutions around the world have pledged to some form of fossil fuel divestment than any other class of institution, said Harper.

Consumption skyrockets even as efficiency improves To clean up its power sector, Singapore has switched from burning oil for electricity to burning natural gas, the cleanest form of fossil fuels.

Right now we have ramped up our economies to match the availability of energy in the form of fossil fuels — hydrocarbons — and, hence, CO2 emissions.

This idea among others should be taken seriously as unintentional geo - engineering in the form of fossil fuel burning has gotten us to where we are now with respect to AGW and purposeful geo - engineering may be necessary to avoid a meltdown during our transition to a sustainable relationship with the Earth's climate.

There are two possible places to cap carbon: (1) where CO2 leaves the economy and enters the atmosphere, and (2) where carbon enters the economy in the form of a fossil fuel.

Steiner identified «energy in the form of fossil fuels, and agriculture, especially the raising of livestock for meat and dairy products» as two areas «having a disproportionately high impact on people and the planet's life - support systems.»

1370 watts per square meter from Father Sol is just not enough, as Mother Nature has been concentrating sunshine in the form of fossil fuels for eons.

Mark Perry writes: «As we observe Earth Day this year, it might be a good time to appreciate the fact that Americans get most of their plentiful, affordable energy directly from the Earth's «natural environment» in the form of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum).»

Wiser's report concludes more wind on the grid will require more balancing reserves in the form of fossil fuel generation.

The growth in the atmospheric CO2 concentration over the past several centuries is primarily the result of mankind's thirst for energy — largely in the form of fossil fuels.

Those 30 million, million tonnes of accumulated excavation, ore and manufacture can be seen as the physical residue of the colossal exploitation of energy, much of it in the form of fossil fuels that is returned to the atmosphere as greenhouse gas carbon dioxide to trigger global warming and potentially catastrophic climate change.

At Planet3.0, we've had our internal disagreement about this, with mt arguing that McKibben's and Hansen's approach is correct, and that tar sand bitumen is a good place to draw the line, while Dan M has argued that this is a sort of arbitrary decision, and the tar sands should be treated just as another form of fossil fuels, rather than a bright line that should not be crossed.

Not exact matches

«Water is required for all different forms of energy production, for the production of fossil fuels, biofuels, concentrated solar power.»

It could even take the form of an investment in carbon capture and storage technology to allow fossil fuels to be part of the future energy mix.

The shift away from pure fossil - fuel engines has been so fast that 2017 sales of cars using some form of electric battery power topped out at 52 percent, according to the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV).

While Germany's official Energiewende strategy calls for a transition from fossil fuel and nuclear energy to renewable energy, and reduction of emissions by 40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, the recently formed German government is more conservative than the previous governments.

Using lifecycle analysis, a study conducted by Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada found that while all forms of electricity generation have environmental impacts, solar PV technologies have fewer negative environmental impacts than traditional fossil - fuel - based electricity production.

«New pipelines to transition to clean energy» is Canada's own form of climate denial Watching Prime Minister Trudeau celebrate President Trump's executive order reviving the Keystone XL pipeline got me thinking: how is it that our «progressive» Canadian leader is siding with the climate - denying U.S. president on major fossil fuel expansion?

The less we use fossil fuels and other forms of polluting or dangerous energy the better.

By applying fossil fuel energy, new machines, and new forms of organization to production, far more goods could be produced by a given work force.

Benefits of the company's new wastewater and green energy plant mean that DMPI can replace fossil fuels with green energy, and given the high prices of electricity form the Grid and the sometimes erratic supply, the plant will achieve rapid ROI payback.

Made up of experts form the investment, energy, environmental and legal industries, the panel will advise DiNapoli on ways the state's more than $ 200 billion pension system can reduce its investments in fossil fuel companies while increasing investments in clean energy.

Expensive as they are, fossil fuels are still the cheapest form of energy.

Water does not perish, nor require millions of years to form as do fossil fuels.

Audience question: Big oil and big coal argue that the transition from a fossil fuel — based economy to a clean - energy economy will come at a severe economic cost in the form of jobs.

Because oxygen is critical to many forms of life and geochemical processes, numerous models and indirect proxies for the oxygen content in the atmosphere have been developed over the years, but there was no consensus on whether oxygen concentrations were rising, falling or flat during the past million years (and before fossil fuel burning).

Perhaps low oil prices are a practice run for life under climate change, when fossil fuels have to be forsaken, driving down their prices and driving companies to produce cleaner forms of energy.

The more coal and oil burned, the more black spheres formed, making such soot the perfect record of a swelling fossil - fuel pyromania.

CO2 is formed when any kind of organic material or fossil fuel, such as natural gas, petroleum, coal or gasoline, is burned.

A crew of a dozen sailors, a geophysics professor, and two graduate students, we were combing the ocean floor for buried methane hydrate, an ice - like form of natural gas estimated to be more abundant than fossil fuels.

Fossil fuels — the hydrocarbons known as peat, coal, oil, and natural gas — are formed from the constituents of deeply buried and preserved organic matter.

By dramatically improving the speed and efficiency of conversion over conventional approaches, these enzymes could stimulate efforts to grow crops for fuel, with implications for biodiversity in the form of increased land use for this purpose, potential shifts away from fossil fuel use and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

Fossil fuel industries collect some $ 4 billion a year in tax breaks and other aid, reports Taxpayers for Common Sense, a group of nonpartisan budget watchdogs — and that figure doesn't even take into account hidden forms of support, such as the Pentagon's jet aircraft research and development that led to efficient new natural gas turbines.

And ozone, which forms a beneficial shield against ultraviolet radiation when high in the stratosphere, is an efficient greenhouse gas when it appears at airliner altitudes — as it increasingly does, since it too is a by - product of fossil fuel burning.

«My research is primarily centered on converting us from a fossil fuel - based infrastructure to a renewable - or solar - based infrastructure so we can rely on renewable forms of energy that don't pollute the world at all.

Conventional fossil fuel takes millions of years to form, but a determined niche of modern alchemists are vastly accelerating the process to brew biocrude, a fuel similar to petroleum that is produced in less than two months from agricultural or municipal waste.

The jury is still out on whether hydrogen will ultimately be our environmental savior, replacing the fossil fuels responsible for global warming and various nagging forms of pollution.

Although a number of substances form particles, the Harvard group suspects that byproducts of fossil fuel combustion are the most dangerous.

Now, locked in limestone that was formed in shallow seawater offshore of the supercontinent Pangaea, scientists have found an isotopic signal to support a sharp drop in pH. The catastrophe holds a cautionary lesson: Due to the burning of fossil fuels, today's oceans are acidifying at an even faster rate than they were at the time of the extinctions, although it hasn't yet persisted nearly as long.

In photosynthesis, sunlight and heat make chemical energy (in the form of wood or fossil fuel); fire uses chemical energy to produce light and heat.

Fossil fuels, which are technically forms of stored energy, pose plenty of problems in their extraction, refining, distribution and delivery.

The reaction combines the hydroxyl molecule (OH, produced by reaction of oxygen and water) and carbon monoxide (CO, a byproduct of incomplete fossil fuel combustion) to form hydrogen (H) and carbon dioxide (CO2, a «greenhouse gas» contributing to global warming), as well as heat.

Last week, the G7 leaders pledged to eliminate «inefficient fossil fuel subsidies» but talks on phasing out a form of coal subsidy ended in stalemate.

Eliminating clouds from the dimming equation now leaves little doubt that human activity, in the form of a nine-fold increase in fossil fuel emissions over the same half - century period, has entrenched China in a foggy haze that absorbs and deflects the sun's rays.

sulfur dioxide A pollutant made of sulfur and oxygen that forms when fossil fuel is burned.