Recent reports estimate that soy - based proteins are 6 — 20 times more efficient in terms of
fossil fuel requirement (67 — 69), 4.4 — 26 times more efficient in terms of water requirement (68), and 6 — 17 times more efficient in terms of land use (70) vs. animal proteins.
For example, we have replaced more than 60 percent of
our fossil fuel requirements in our manufacturing process with renewable energy sources.
Focusing the LCA on three key impacts — direct land use, life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and
fossil fuel requirements — the researchers identified PV electricity for battery electric vehicles as the superior sun - to - wheels conversion method.
Not exact matches
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A small but growing number of countries now have legal
requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued
fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37
As we see the price of
fossil fuels and conventional energy sources rising it is clear that the future of our energy
requirements will be one that is based on a range of sustainable and renewable sources.
This scenario would change if there were a significant tax on carbon emissions, or if an equivalent economic penalty were imposed on
fossil -
fueled plants through a cap on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions or a
requirement that CO2 be sequestered.
published report, Hayward stated that holding the US back from fulfilling it's petroleum - based product
requirements is «a reluctance to develop the nation's massive natural resources under the mistaken belief in the unproven science that claims carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning of
fossil fuels is the major cause of recent and future warming of the Earth.
Reversing the effects of deforestation is also important and there will need to be incentives to achieve increased carbon storage in the biosphere and soil, but the crucial
requirement now is to limit the amount of
fossil fuel carbon in the air.
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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 fact that you could be running LNG, CNG or LPG for cooking, possible water heating, HVAC temperature control, and clothes drying could explain the way your electrical
requirements maybe artificially low, all you would have done is swapped your electrical energy for a
fossil fuel or possible renewable substitute.
Young People's Burden makes clear that rapid reduction of
fossil fuel emissions is the most important
requirement to assure prospects of young people, but it is not enough.
And since most renewables don't require water for cooling, they dramatically reduce the water
requirements for power production compared to
fossil -
fueled power plants.
C. Technically, it is still possible to solve the climate problem, but there are two essential
requirements: (1) a simple across - the - board (all
fossil fuels) rising carbon fee [2] collected from
fossil fuel companies at the domestic source (mine or port of entry), not a carbon price «scheme,» and the money must go to the public, not to government coffers, otherwise the public will not allow the fee to rise as needed for phase - over to clean energy, (2) honest government support for, rather than strangulation of, RD&D (research, development and demonstration) of clean energy technologies, including advanced generation, safe nuclear power.
Renewable Energy Sources (RES) offer many benefits, such as CO2 emissions mitigation,
fossil fuels import
requirement reduction and new jobs creation, just to name a few.
«The principal
requirement is that coal emissions must be phased out by 2030 and unconventional
fossil fuels, such as tar sands, must be left in the ground.»
Total
fossil fuel is close to a million EJ or about 500 years of the long - run thermal energy
requirement in the high - growth scenario (at 60 TW (thermal) by 2100), but not including clathrates and oil shale, that is reduced to about 50 years of reserves at the 2100 rate (i.e. we're not even going to make it to 2100).
The economic case against the CPP is further rebutted by the rapid evolution of the power sector away from
fossil fuels and the sizable drop in CO2 emissions independent of CPP
requirements.
Annual water
requirements of a PHES - supported 100 % renewable electricity grid would be much less than the current
fossil fuel system, because wind and PV do not require cooling water.
Billions of public dollars per year prop up coal through
fuel use
requirements, pricing provisions, programs in
fossil energy research and development, and government «cost - sharing» for clean coal plants.
1 Executive Summary 2 Scope of the Report 3 The Case for Hydrogen 3.1 The Drive for Clean Energy 3.2 The Uniqueness of Hydrogen 3.3 Hydrogen's Safety Record 4 Hydrogen
Fuel Cells 4.1 Proton Exchange Membrane
Fuel Cell 4.2
Fuel Cells and Batteries 4.3
Fuel Cell Systems Durability 4.4
Fuel Cell Vehicles 5 Hydrogen
Fueling Infrastructure 5.1 Hydrogen Station Hardware 5.2 Hydrogen Compression and Storage 5.3 Hydrogen
Fueling 5.4 Hydrogen Station Capacity 6 Hydrogen
Fueling Station Types 6.1 Retail vs. Non-Retail Stations 6.1.1 Retail Hydrogen Stations 6.1.2 Non-Retail Hydrogen Stations 6.2 Mobile Hydrogen Stations 6.2.1 Honda's Smart Hydrogen Station 6.2.2 Nel Hydrogen's RotoLyzer 6.2.3 Others 7 Hydrogen
Fueling Protocols 7.1 SAE J2601 7.2 Related Standards 7.3
Fueling Protocols vs. Vehicle Charging 7.4 SAE J2601 vs. SAE J1772 7.5 Ionic Compression 8 Hydrogen Station Rollout Strategy 8.1 Traditional Approaches 8.2 Current Approach 8.3 Factors Impacting Rollouts 8.4 Production and Distribution Scenarios 8.5 Reliability Issues 9 Sources of Hydrogen 9.1
Fossil Fuels 9.2 Renewable Sources 10 Methods of Hydrogen Production 10.1 Production from Non-Renewable Sources 10.1.1 Steam Reforming of Natural Gas 10.1.2 Coal Gasification 10.2 Production from Renewable Sources 10.2.1 Electrolysis 10.2.2 Biomass Gasification 11 Hydrogen Production Scenarios 11.1 Centralized Hydrogen Production 11.2 On - Site Hydrogen Production 11.2.1 On - site Electrolysis 11.2.2 On - Site Steam Methane Reforming 12 Hydrogen Delivery 12.1 Hydrogen Tube Trailers 12.2 Tanker Trucks 12.3 Pipeline Delivery 12.4 Railcars and Barges 13 Hydrogen Stations Cost Factors 13.1 Capital Expenditures 13.2 Operating Expenditures 14 Hydrogen Station Deployments 14.1 Asia - Pacific 14.1.1 Japan 14.1.2 Korea 14.1.3 China 14.1.4 Rest of Asia - Pacific 14.2 Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) 14.2.1 Germany 14.2.2 The U.K. 14.2.3 Nordic Region 14.2.4 Rest of EMEA 14.3 Americas 14.3.1 U.S. West Coast 14.3.2 U.S. East Coast 14.3.3 Canada 14.3.4 Latin America 15 Selected Vendors 15.1 Air Liquide 15.2 Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. 15.3 Ballard Power Systems 15.4 FirstElement
Fuel Inc. 15.5 FuelCell Energy, Inc. 15.6 Hydrogenics Corporation 15.7 The Linde Group 15.8 Nel Hydrogen 15.9 Nuvera
Fuel Cells 15.10 Praxair 15.11 Proton OnSite / SunHydro 15.11.1 Proton Onsite 15.11.2 SunHydro 16 Market Forecasts 16.1 Overview 16.2 Global Hydrogen Station Market 16.2.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.2.2 Hydrogen Stations Capacity 16.2.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.3 Asia - Pacific Hydrogen Station Market 16.3.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.3.2 Hydrogen Stations Capacity 16.3.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.4 Europe, Middle East and Africa 16.4.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.4.2 Hydrogen Station Capacity 16.4.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.5 Americas 16.5.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.5.2 Hydrogen Station Capacity 16.5.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 17 Conclusions 17.1 Hydrogen as a
Fuel 17.2 Rollout of
Fuel Cell Vehicles 17.3 Hydrogen Station Deployments 17.4 Funding
Requirements 17.5 Customer Experience 17.6 Other Findings
There is no logical
requirement for the first answer to lead to «mostly because of human activity such as burning
fossil fuels.»
Australians are genuinely concerned about the need to restrict their (paltry) share of global CO2 emissions, yet we are flat out filling the developing (and developed) world's
requirement for
fossil fuels.
Notwithstanding this regulatory
requirement, few
fossil fuel companies discuss how trends towards a low - carbon economy will impact their results and financial condition.
Burlington Electric is offering this incentive as part of its effort to meet the Tier III
requirements of Vermont's RES, which supports utility programs that help customers reduce
fossil fuel use in the heating and transportation sectors..
Based on projected world energy
requirements, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (1956) has estimated an amount of
fossil fuel combustion by the year 2000 that with our assumed partitions would give about a 25 percent increase in atmospheric CO2, compared to the amount present during the 19th Century.
Favorable energy economics are just one of solar's many benefits — including less water use, lack of
requirement for a centralized grid in undeveloped regions, low cost, zero air pollution, and in providing a mitigation for the rising problem of global climate change (which is primarily driven by human
fossil fuel burning).
Renewables do not meet the
requirements al lower long run marginal cost (LRMC) than
fossil fuels and hydro.
In addition, the RES includes an «energy transformation»
requirement, known as Tier III, that tasks electric utilities to look for ways to reduce
fossil fuel emissions (even where doing so may increase electric consumption).
To slow the growth of clean energy competition, ALEC's
fossil fuel members wrote these bills to allow increasing portions of a states clean energy generation
requirements to be fulfilled by Renewable Energy Credits, or RECs.
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.
The bill offers the CPUC and the CEC the option of setting «targets or
requirements for energy technology that minimizes the percent of load met by
fossil fuels during net - load peak energy demand and maximizes the use of low - carbon technologies.»
The most noteworthy of the Obama administration rulemakings that focused on baseload power production was the Clean Power Plan (CPP), a substantial rule designed to impose global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction
requirements on the existing fleet of
fossil fuel power generators.
, or what is the higher costs of using
fossil fuel derived
requirements for octane and oxgenation?
The least cost option to meet
requirements without CO2 constraint is with
fossil fuels and hydro.
The
fossil fuel power sources we're most accustomed to have a high EROEI of about 30, well above the minimum
requirement.
Of the 67 deregulatory actions the Trump administration completed last year, 20 lifted
requirements on the energy industry — including scrapping protections of streams and wetlands to ease
fossil fuel development and halting restrictions on toxic wastewater discharges from coal plants.
The reality of solar and wind renewable power not addressed in this article is that it is likely only to completely supplant
fossil fuels in limited locations where both solar and wind potential are high, industrial load
requirements are negligible, and the weather is mild in the winter because both resources are intermittent and diffuse.
If I were king, all new energy
requirements would be met by small local, non
fossil fuel power sources: wind, tidal, geo - thermal, methane capture, solar, etc..
That's why severe
fossil fuel demand reduction is not a nice - to - have; it is a hard
requirement if we are to have any chance of avoiding the climate Apocalypse.