Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel sources»

Since the majority of utility - supplied electricity comes from fossil fuel sources and is by no means «carbon neutral» your strategy needs to include a source of renewable energy.

I do not support further exploration of fossil fuel sources.

For some time now, energy experts have been adamant that we will need much more clean energy in the future if we are to replace fossil fuel sources and reduce CO2 emissions.

Republican millennials — people roughly ages 22 to 37 — are far less likely than older generations to support the use of coal, oil and other fossil fuel sources.

Global investments in new electricity capacity from renewable sources have exceeded those in fossil fuel sources for the past seven years, and the gap is growing.

One of my worst fears is that the industrial world will turn to less efficient fossil fuel sources to maintain current levels of economic activity resulting in an accelerated release of CO2.

Compare environmental impacts (production, transportation, etc.) of a high - density fossil fuel source with Solar PV technology that enables clean electricity to be generated in remote rural areas.

Could this actually be a carbon - neutral fossil fuel source?

A similar analysis shows that atmospheric carbon is increasingly derived from fossil fuel sources.

«We need to achieve zero emissions from fossil fuel sources by the second half of the century,» Gurria told reporters at a briefing in London.

The team looked specifically at fossil fuel sources, biofuel and biomass sources of soot.

(Some 85 % of which is a number I remember being associated with fossil fuel sources.)

Pursuing shale gas only makes possible sense, from a climate perspective, if you accept the urgency of reducing emissions, in which case if it genuinely is lower emitting than other fossil fuel sources then it could be used to replace those sources in the short and medium terms.

Also, paper mills have shifted their fuel sources further away from non-renewable fossil fuel sources like oil and coal.

«If we want natural gas to be the cleanest fossil fuel source, methane emissions have to be reduced,» says Gabrielle Pétron, an atmospheric scientist at NOAA and at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and first author on the study, currently in press at the Journal of Geophysical Research.

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.

Scientists can tease apart how much CO2 comes from natural sources, and how much comes from combusted fossil fuel sources.

Exxon is by no means the only fossil fuel source of climate science denier funding; the Koch brothers are also heavily involved.

Fossil fuel sources remain much less costly than the infrastructure necessary for capturing the sun's energy.

We are gravely concerned about the climate, financial and reputational risks associated with pursuing a speculative fossil fuel source that will likely become uneconomical as the world rapidly shifts towards clean energy sources.

While a 2016 Pew Research Center survey found large majorities of Democrats and Republicans supported expanding both wind and solar energy, the new survey shows that Democrats remain far more likely than Republicans to stress that developing alternative energy should take priority over developing fossil fuel sources.

Methane is a chemical compound that's the main component of natural gas, a common fossil fuel source.

In other words, where hydro is not readily available, two sources, the non-hydro renewable source and the original fossil fuel source must be built, maintained, and operated rather than only one (the original fossil fuel / hydro source).

The reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide per new unit of non-hydro «renewable» capacity falls off rapidly as additional «renewable» capacity is added to an electric grid because additional fossil fuel sources must be kept in «spinning reserve» in case the wind dies or the sun goes under a cloud unless hydro is available.

In recent years, there has been great interest in the development of renewable, non-polluting ocean energy which refers to sustainable means of generating electrical power that do not involve burning fossil fuels sources including wind, waves, tides and ocean currents.

Squeezing oil out of the tar sands is one of the most water intensive, carbon emitting, and environmentally destructive fossil fuel sources out there.

For a fee — $ 54,000 in this case — Rystad will sell anyone its numbers on the world's existing fossil fuel sources.

The accumulated fossil fuel source (including the small contribution from cement production) is shown as positive value (blue).

Globally, there is a transformational shift to renewable electricity underway, with global investment in new renewable electricity capacity outpacing investment in new fossil fuel sources.

One Bill, Serious Carbon Emission Savings In a nutshell, utility - based green power programs work like this: Rather than have your utility itself generate the electricity you use (most likely from mostly fossil fuel sources), you sign up with a third party electricity producer who uses renewable energy.

This was down to a range of factors including population growth, as well as industrialization and its use of fossil fuel sources.