Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel technologies»
If we want to build and maintain that coalition we must recognise that cleaner fossil fuel technologies play a role alongside renewables.
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He relates this to the best estimates of present - day non fossil fuel technologies to deliver this energy.
And the existing market size for clean energy technologies, including CCS, is small relative to that of the existing fossil fuel technologies.
Markets would collapse if the last unit of fossil fuel technologies was phased out.
The report claims that wind energy cost several times more then fossil fuel technology.
It [14 x growth] is utterly impossible with fossil fuel technologies — but possible with 4th gen nuclear tech or better.
In Cloud Peak's view, staying in the agreement and trying to encourage «a more balanced, reasonable and appropriate path forward» on fossil fuel technologies among signatories to the accord seems like a reasonable stance, said Cloud Peak's vice president of government affairs, Richard Reavey.
Replacing fossil fuel technologies with fuel cells that use precious metals is unsustainable.
Instead Chairman Hochberg and the Bank continue to doggedly promote deadly and outdated fossil fuel technology at a time when the rest of the world is investing in the cutting edge, emerging clean energy sector.
On their own, energy consumers and utilities will predominately choose lower cost fossil fuel technologies over more expensive clean energy substitutes.
The cost benefits and climate advantages are among the reasons that five countries run national research programs on the technique; is the United States falling behind on the next big fossil fuel technology?
Kennedy's study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, proposes a new decision - making threshold for when to move from fossil fuel technology to electric power (called electrification), and at what point that move may increase or lower carbon emissions.
Therefore all new energy requirements / demands should be met with non fossil fuel technology wherever possible but that still leaves the existing infrastructure pumping out some 7 + billion tonnes of CO2 per annum which has to be dealt with.
If the comparison is to unabated fossil fuel technology, then of course it is.
Instead of wildcatting in costly, unproven non-conventional fossil fuel technologies such as fracking and tar sands that add greenhouse gas to the atmosphere, the company could show foresight and leadership by investing in clean, renewable energy such as wind, solar and geothermal.»
In another new paper that lends support to the conclusions of Marques et al. (2018) above, Blazquez et al. (2018)(full paper available for download) find that renewable energy paradoxically becomes more and more costly to consumers the further it penetrates the market, and thus simultaneous growth in fossil fuel technologies is needed to keep the costs of renewable energy sustainable.
Claiming that the warming we've already seen — and that is forecasted to continue this century — can be reversed with better fossil fuel technology is simply a lie.
In a 1976 article for Foreign Affairs, Lovins presented the idea that energy strategies could follow two paths: the «hard» path of increasing centralized, conventional generation, or the «soft» energy path of energy efficiency, developing renewable energy resources, and use of «special transitional fossil fuel technologies».
We produce research and analysis debunking industry arguments supporting extreme fossil fuel technologies.
Washington is already working to launch an international alliance that is set to include a host of other countries committed to introducing clean fossil fuel technologies — including a number of Association of Southeast Asian Nation states.
As an aside, it's galling that these grants and subsidies are for fossil fuel technologies, where environmental extremists are bound to claim they support the fossil fuel industry, when, in fact, they are intended to bolster the EPA's war on fossil fuels.
The environmental threats and economic costs of continued reliance on fossil fuel technologies are sufficiently urgent to warrant substantially larger public support in the form of private - sector R&D incentives and a refocusing of effort by the national energy laboratories on the development and diffusion of alternative energy technologies.
Often, the debate is presented as if the only question is how high, and how fast does the carbon price need to climb in order to substitute existing fossil fuel technologies with clean energy technologies, whilst also maintaining economic growth.
Our entire portfolio of fossil fuel technologies has to be replaced with effective alternatives - steadily and persistently - till we humans can show that we have permanently capped the total stock of atmospheric CO2 at the lowest and safest level.
Paradoxically, in order for renewable technologies to continue growing their market share, they need to co-exist with fossil fuel technologies.»
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions will involve developing «a variety» of energy sources, including renewables, nuclear, and fossil fuel technologies with carbon capture and storage, he said in response to a question from an audience member.
The study finds that the greenhouse gas impacts on the atmosphere of using woody biomass will be a function of the lifecycle of the biomass being used, the biomass energy technology and the fossil fuel technology it replaces, and the way landowners choose to manage their forests.
Compared with fossil fuel technologies, which are typically mechanized and capital intensive, the renewable energy industry is more labor intensive.
Your ill - conceived «renewable» projects are highly unlikely to generate enough energy to even replace the fossil fuel technologies you want to abandon let alone provide more energy.
Thus, non-dispatchable technologies need to coexist with fossil fuel technologies.
in order for renewable technologies to continue growing their market share, they need to co-exist with fossil fuel technologies