Sentences with phrase «fossil free energy»

The 47 countries moving to 100 % fossil free energy.

* Lazarus, M., L. Greber, J. Hall, C. Bartels, S. Bernow, E. Hansen, P. Raskin, and D. Von Hippel, 1993: Towards a fossil free energy future: the next energy transition.

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After his departure, China said it plans to accelerate the use of alternative - energy cars, phasing out sales of fossil - fuel vehicles and turning the province into a free - trade port.

«Ministers must now come up with a sensible plan that protects the UK's solar industry and allows cash - strapped homes and businesses to free themselves from expensive fossil fuels by plugging into clean energy.

Organizations Supporting the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act: 350.org NRDC Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Citizens Campaign for the Environment Clearwater Food & Water Watch Citizen Action of NY 350NYC NYS Council of Churches Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy Catskill Mountainkeeper Citizens Environmental Coalition of NY Fossil Free & Green NY Green Education and Legal Fund Greenfaith Healthcare Without Harm Jews Against Fracking NY Interfaith Power & Lights People for Animal Rights Plan to Save the Planet, Albany Renewable Energy Long Island Rochester People's Climate Coalition Syracuse Cultural Workers Syracuse Peace Council

Some 50 people gathered outside Cuomo's Westchester County home in Mount Kisco last night to urge him to implement a 100 percent fossil fuel free energy plan.

ANNE THOMPSON: A lot of people were warming up to the idea of nuclear energy as a carbon - free alternative to fossil fuels.

Domestic industries can make it from a range of chemical feedstocks and energy sources (for instance, from renewable, nuclear and fossil - fuel sources), and the nontoxic gas could serve as a virtually pollution - free energy carrier for machines of many kinds.

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.

Among the first eco-cities ever announced, Dongtan was planned to be zero waste, energy - efficient, powered largely by sea breezes and free of vehicles running on fossil fuels.

Ending fossil fuel subsidies would free up scarce public money for priorities like education, healthcare, and clean energy.

Assuming you believe in economic efficiency and a free market, you should be advocating a reduction in subsidies to energy companies for production of electricity by nuclear and fossil - fueled plants.

Musk is building a «giga - factory» in Nevada to make the next fossil fuel - free energy on a massive scale.

The implication is that the world must move rapidly to carbon - free energies and energy efficiency, leaving most remaining fossil fuels in the ground, if climate is to be kept close to the Holocene range and climate disasters averted.

The most fundamental implication is the need for an across - the - board rising fee on fossil fuel emissions in order to allow true free market competition from non-fossil energy sources.

In Sweden, wind, hydro, and solar power account for 52 percent of the electricity used, which places it at No. 1 in the world for sustainable energy use and puts it firmly on the path to becoming the first fossil - fuel - free nation.

Distributor Play Asia has pitched into this new energy revolution and is keen to do its part to free the world from the trappings of fossil fuels.

Nobody says that silicon donor acceptor solar energy conversion and the factories that produce it is free of fossil fuels, but they certainly do minimize its use, while producing products that further minimize its use.

Second, a recent report by «Bloomberg New Energy Finance» [BNEF] found that under free market conditions (i.e. RE deployed only where profitable) the best that the renewables will achieve by 2040 is sufficient deployment to take up all increase in energy demand, but they would not by that date reduce fossil fuels» overall Energy Finance» [BNEF] found that under free market conditions (i.e. RE deployed only where profitable) the best that the renewables will achieve by 2040 is sufficient deployment to take up all increase in energy demand, but they would not by that date reduce fossil fuels» overall energy demand, but they would not by that date reduce fossil fuels» overall usage.

Renewable energy currently tends to have higher up - front costs than fossil fuel - based power systems do, but in the long run equipment depreciation is lower and the fuel (sunlight and wind) is free, thus any honest cost analysis over the lifetime of the power - generating equipment will conclude that solar is cheapest, wind second, nuclear third, and fossil fuels are unworkable in the long run due to the global warming issue.

Demonstrating that the overall environmental damage is less than that from coal does not imply that gas production and use is cost - free, and the sooner we reduce our dependence on fossil fuel sources of energy of all kinds the better.

Until the free market is made to bear the true cost of fossil fuels, including all of the «externalities» (e.g. degradation of the commons including the immediate environment, climate change, medical costs that we all bear through insurance premiums) there will be no economic incentive to revamp transportation energy distribution.

This will happen simply as a result of market forces, as fossil fuels inevitably become scarcer and more difficult and costly to obtain, while the cost of ever more powerful technologies for harvesting abundant, free energy from sunlight and wind continues to plummet.

Here's the keystone line from one of a series of papers on this energy gap by Hoffert et al (Science, 2002), John Holdren (pdf), and others: «Mid-century primary power requirements that are free of carbon dioxide emissions could be several times what we now derive from fossil fuels (~ 10 [to the 13th power] watts), even with improvements in energy efficiency.»

The fourth item should be more ambitious, and that is a plan to set up modern industrial and agricultural systems that are entirely powered by renewable energy — for example, fossil fuel free farms run off solar - powered water pumps and worked with electric tractors, charged with wind and or solar.

Pyrolyze organic wastes obtaining some fossil - fuel - free energy.

As a region historically responsible for climate change, Europe needs to shift to an energy system free from fossil fuels much faster than currently forseen.

The IPCC warned us, not that long ago, that if we continued with our usual fossil energy pattern the Arctic could be «ice free» by 2100.

A low - cost emissions - free source of electricity generation, wind energy will be essential if the province is to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent in 2050 as clean electricity will be needed to substitute for fossil fuels in transportation, industries and buildings.

The findings are a stark reminder of the urgency with which Europe, as a region historically responsible for climate change, needs to shift to an energy system free from fossil fuels.

We're endorsing candidates up and down the ballot who are willing to fight for the fossil free future we need by supporting a rapid, just transition to 100 % renewable energy and opposing any new climate - wrecking fossil fuel projects — and who also share a broad, progressive vision for a just world where all of our communities can thrive.

The introduction of machines powered by cheap and easily accessible fossil fuels led to a decline in the use of wind power, but since reserves of these fuels are finite and as the world becomes more conscious of the pollution generated by these fuels, focus has turned once again to tapping this free source of energy.

Given that humans are currently pulling 17 tW from the earth, as fossil fuels, and using another 30 tW for energy from food, our current needs are already a big proportion of the total «free energy» available.

Most recently, Dr, Makhijani has authored Carbon - Free and Nuclear - Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (IEER Press), the first analysis of a transition to a U.S. economy based completely on renewable energy, without any use of fossil fuels or nuclear Energy Policy (IEER Press), the first analysis of a transition to a U.S. economy based completely on renewable energy, without any use of fossil fuels or nuclear energy, without any use of fossil fuels or nuclear power.

One hundred percent fossil - free electricity is by no means a complete or sufficient climate or clean energy policy.

With growing numbers of businesses making location decisions based on the availability of clean, low - carbon energy, the development of a fossil - free energy system would further position Washington as a leading center of economic growth.

Ming doesn't have to consume energy to produce CO2, he gets it for free when he produces energy by burning fossil fuels.

By replacing animal and human muscle and low - density energy sources like wood, dung, and other biofuels, and low - density, intermittent wind and solar, fossil and nuclear fuels have freed people from the basic tasks of survival to devote time and bodily energy to other occupations.

We're calling for a fast and just transition to a Fossil Free world Together, we're building a movement to stop all new fossil fuel projects and fast forward a 100 % renewable energy transition that works for evFossil Free world Together, we're building a movement to stop all new fossil fuel projects and fast forward a 100 % renewable energy transition that works for evfossil fuel projects and fast forward a 100 % renewable energy transition that works for everyone

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.»

With storage and clean energy now being built together, the endgame of a truly clean, modern electric system, completely free of fossil fuels, is within reach.

Donald Trump's election victory provides the best opportunity that is likely to occur to push back against the green lobby before they assume permanent control of the climate / energy policy area and with it the continued survival of the free enterprise system in the US and the fossil fuels that provide the energy that make a modern economy function.

The saddest result of policies based on bad science to achieve environmental dreams of a fossil fuel free world is the effects of high energy costs that inevitably follows on the poor and middle class families.

That's because it uses the free renewable solar energy stored in your backyard rather than burning fossil fuels.

With wind energy now the cornerstone of the nation's future Green Energy plan to become fossil fuel free by 2050, the Danes are again pioneering the way energy now the cornerstone of the nation's future Green Energy plan to become fossil fuel free by 2050, the Danes are again pioneering the way Energy plan to become fossil fuel free by 2050, the Danes are again pioneering the way ahead.

Alternately, if you are certain that decision makers where you live will resist your demands, you could consider one way of asserting maximum pressure by running a community survey of the local population to gauge and publicise the level of popular support for renewable energy and your Fossil Free demands.

You don't have to be an expert in finance to start a Fossil Free finance campaign, nor to be an expert in renewable energy to push for a commitment to 100 % renewable energy for all in your local area.

There are immense direct and indirect public benefits in transitioning to an efficient renewable energy system in terms of reduced incidence of diseases such as asthma, freeing up of most of the supplies of water that are now used for thermal electricity generation (and hence reduced conflict over water), reduced air, water, and soil pollution that accompanies fossil fuel production, processing and use, and greatly improved prospects of avoiding the worst consequences of climate change.

A fossil fuel - free society is economically attractive: renewable energy increasingly competes with fossil fuels.

Each state's infographic has a story that's easy to follow, starting with an envisioned 2050 energy mix free of fossil fuels.