Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel transportation»

Electrek is a news site tracking the transition from fossil fuel transportation to electric and the surrounding clean ecosystems.

I accept a level of hypocrisy because to engage with every injustice all the time is not only to open ourselves up to way too much suffering but can lead to a form of self - disarmament (consider for example the committed climate activist who won't use fossil fuel transportation on principle and therefore can't get to the action to shut down the coal plant — who comes out losing?)

Not exact matches

He's going to placeholdercolonize Mars, save Puerto Rico, free us from dependence on fossil fuels, redefine high - speed transportation, and ensure human beings can survive in the age of artificial intelligence.

Even more, lighter - weight flexible packaging results in less transportation - related energy and fossil fuel consumption, and environmental pollution.

This would not only ensure the freshest produce but also limiting the fossil fuels wasted normally during transportation.

«When we really looked at our dependence on fossil fuels for practically everything needed to live comfortably in Maine — home heating, transportation to work and school, even getting Hannaford's shelves restocked every 5 days — an ecologically - minded cohousing community seemed like one viable and attractive alternative.

Organizer 350Vermont says the campaign is about coming up with solutions to get the state off fossil fuels and make a fair and equitable transition toward renewable energy, electric vehicles and improved public transportation.

Hawkins praised Stein's Green New Deal, a proposed plan that aims to create 20 million new jobs by transitioning from fossil fuel - based infrastructure to 100 % clean renewable energy by 2030, while also investing in improved public transportation and community - based agriculture.

In 2016, the latest year for which data is available, fossil fuel - generated power and transportation each supplied about 34 percent of total U.S. CO2 emissions, according to the annual EPA report.

«This is certainly true for fossil fuel - related approvals, where there is a clear causal connection between each phase of the fossil fuel supply chain (production, transportation, processing, and end - use) and the emissions from these activities can be estimated with existing tools and data.»

The proposed cuts include $ 269.78 billion from energy programs, including $ 158.7 billion of fossil fuel subsidies; $ 167.09 billion of agricultural subsidies, including $ 89.82 billion of federal crop insurance disaster aid; $ 212.02 billion of transportation subsidies, including $ 125.80 billion of general revenue transfers to the Highway Trust Fund; $ 101.8 billion of federal flood, crop and nuclear insurance subsidies; and $ 24.99 billion from wasteful or environmental damaging public lands and water projects.

It can be produced from fossil fuels or renewable sources, it can be used to generate power or transportation fuel, and it can help to clean up the natural gas supply.

Alongside electricity generation, the transportation sector is the largest emitter of pollutants produced by the burning of fossil fuels.

It is commonly accepted that there is an urgent need for sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels for transportation to replace diesel and petrol.

Transportation and fossil fuel industries typically come to mind as major sources of pollution.

«Tailpipe emissions are the main source of greenhouse gases from cars that use fossil fuels,» explained Anthony Shaw, a transport program specialist at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, a nonprofit research organization.

More optimistic Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, said he was more optimistic than the panel about the move away from fossil fuel.

With the human activity associated with industrialization, however, came the burning of fossil fuels for manufacturing and transportation, putting more carbon dioxide into the air and creating an increased pressure of this gas on some regions of the earth's surface — including coastal areas.

(5) reduction in transportation sector emissions through increased transportation system and vehicle efficiency or use of transportation fuels that have lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions that are substantially lower than those attributable to fossil fuel - based alternatives;

Why It Matters: Increasing our nation's independence from fossil fuels for our transportation fleet requires energy storage.

There is a broad scientific consensus that human activity — including the burning of fossil fuels for transportation, heating and industrial manufacturing — is driving recent climate change.

Carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have increased due to the use of fossil fuels in electricity generation, transportation, industrial processes, and space and water heating.

Methane concentrations have increased mainly as a result of agriculture, raising livestock (which produce methane in their digestive tracts), mining, transportation, and use of certain fossil fuels, and decomposing garbage in landfills.

The Department of Energy's pages on bioenergy and wind energy as well as transportation have both reduced their mentions of greenhouse gas emissions and reducing fossil fuel use in favor of language more geared toward jobs and energy independence.

Thus 2 °C scenarios result in more CO2 per unit useable energy, release of substantial CH4 via the mining process and gas transportation, and release of CO2 and other gases via destruction of forest «overburden» to extract subterranean fossil fuels.

For example, a growing scarcity of fossil fuels and the need to stem the environmental damages caused by climate change will undoubtedly lead to a substantial increase in the use of public transportation.

The largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States is from burning fossil fuels for electricity, heat and transportation.

TRUTH: Only a small percentage of atmospheric methane comes from ruminant flatulence; the largest source is the burning of fossil fuels for electricity, heat, and transportation.

to consider should be the following: 1) the elimination or reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases; 2) increase of basic sanitation services provided to the population; 3) the elimination or reduction of deforestation and burning of forests; 4) reduction in the consumption of fossil fuels; 5) increase of the share of renewable energy in the energy mix; 6) the elimination or reduction of land pollution, air, ocean and water; 7) increase of energy efficiency or energy saving in agriculture, industry and transportation in general; and 8) increase of recycling of materials.

The standard of environmental performance required to consider should be the following: 1) the elimination or reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases; 2) increase of basic sanitation services provided to the population; 3) the elimination or reduction of deforestation and burning of forests; 4) reduction in the consumption of fossil fuels; 5) increase of the share of renewable energy in the energy mix; 6) the elimination or reduction of land pollution, air, ocean and water; 7) increase of energy efficiency or energy saving in agriculture, industry and transportation in general; and 8) increase of recycling of materials.

Companies that lead the technological revolution to wean the transportation industry from fossil fuels are likely to be rewarded with outsized future earnings for their shareholders.

Fossil fuel emissions, especially electricity generation, transportation, and some influence from deforestation.

«And the best way to reduce emissions is to end fossil fuel driven transportation.

-- Climate impacts: global temperatures, ice cap melting, ocean currents, ENSO, volcanic impacts, tipping points, severe weather events — Environment impacts: ecosystem changes, disease vectors, coastal flooding, marine ecosystem, agricultural system — Government actions: US political views, world - wide political views, carbon tax / cap - and - trade restrictions, state and city efforts — Reducing GHGs: + electric power systems: fossil fuel use, conservation, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, tidal, other + transportation sector: conservation, mass transit, high speed rail, air travel, auto / truck (mileage issues, PHEVs, EVs, biofuels, hydrogen) + architectural structure design: home / office energy use, home / office conservation, passive solar, other

by NWEI on September 6, 2012 0 alternative transportation bike commuting EcoChallenge fossil fuels sustainability

As to transportation or industry the truth is there is no other portable energy source that offers quite the concentration of energy or the abundance found of the original bounty found in liquid fossil fuels.

But between electric trucks, cars, buses and even planes, car - free cities and serious investment in bikes as transportation, I suspect we may soon be reaching a tipping point when investors start questioning the long - term wisdom of financing fossil fuels.

Other fossil fuel cost avoidence strateties relate to transportation costs that a new technology might mitigate.

The only real reason seems to be financial — fossil fuel interests and global fossil - fueled transportation & electricity interests don't want to face lawsuits over the costs of these extreme weather events, and they also don't want to see their markets for fossil fuels shrink.

Once lauded as the future of clean transportation and energy storage in a variety of other applications, hydrogen - based fuel cell systems have a great many barriers to adoption, one of which is lack of hydrogen infrastructure, and the other is the need to develop hydrogen production sources that aren't fossil fuel - based or that require more energy to produce than can be released in the fuel cell.

Cities need to be revamped for sustainable, independent food supplies, for decreased our reliance on fossil - fueled transportation and increased walk - and bike - friendliness, and for energy efficiency.

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.

[ANDY REVKIN says: As I said in my talk, the main benefits of local actions on energy and related issues (transportation, sprawl) would be economic or social, with the grand challenge of climate stability requiring generations of sustained effort to accelerate the inevitable eventual shift away from traditional uses of finite fossil fuels.

Although the most visible example of the future of electric mobility is the consumer electric car, the commercial transportation sector and heavy industry are two major areas where transitioning to cleaner fuels will have a big impact on air quality, GHG emissions, and other undesirable consequences of fossil fuels.

The more we can centralize our food production, bringing it closer to our homes, and the less reliant we are on distant food suppliers and fossil fuel - powered transportation networks, the better off we'll all be.

But, as the Keeling Curve shows, these processes are not capable of keeping up with fossil fuel emissions from the electricity generation and transportation sectors.

March 13, 12:43 p.m. Relevant tweets appended A group of scientists and energy analysts has laid out a path under which New York State could, in theory, eliminate its use of fossil fuels and nuclear power — including for transportation — by 2050.

Now, with oil prices crashing while the cost of production does not; with campaigners scoring victories from the Paris climate agreement to major institutional divestment from fossil fuels; and with increasingly viable competition from electrified transportation, efficiency and renewables — oil companies may be facing a unique confluence of uphill challenges.

If the goal is to turn sunlight into energy that we can use for transportation, to displace fossil fuels, biofuels compare very badly with solar panels that are closer to 20 % efficient, and electric motors, that are closer to 80 - 90 % efficient.

As an example, the University of California system has committed to eliminating fossil fuel use by 2025 — a major task given our transportation footprint.