Sentences with phrase «from fossil fuel energy sources»

This amount of consumption, especially from fossil fuel energy sources, will continue to harm the environment until we come together and find better ways to create energy.

The increase in emissions will be driven by rising emissions from fossil fuel energy sources, whose percentage of the global energy mix will maintain its current level of about 85 per cent.

President Donald Trump is promising major changes on climate and energy policy, including efforts to increase production from fossil fuel energy sources such as coal.

Namely, that significant sums of capital expenditure from Australian - based fossil fuel companies risks being stranded in a scenario compliant with international policy agreements and continued technological advances away from fossil fuel energy sources.

Reductions of this size will require a major transformation of our energy system away from fossil fuel energy sources, and possibly large - scale capturing and storage of CO2 as well.

On her campaign website, Deacon said scientists have reached a consensus on climate change so she wants to transition away from fossil fuel energy sources, invest in clean energy technology and support federal acts to protect natural resources.

Not exact matches

The world added more energy from renewable sources than from fossil fuels in 2015 and 2016 — because they finally became cost effective.

Having acknowledged the need to turn from the overdependence on fossil fuels to more environmentally friendly sources of energy, the government has tried to encourage the production of automobiles that use alternative sources of fuel by trying to give tax incentives to any buyers of such cars.

The results add weight to warnings from analysts that fossil fuel assets are at risk of losing their value and becoming «stranded» as the world transitions to cleaner energy sources.

Among them, the empowerment of those forces, both corporate and governmental, that profit most from the unbridled development of fossil fuels — and that have good reasons to block the development of renewable sources of energy.

The transition to an ecologically sustainable society requires reduced consumption of goods, the efficient recycling of materials, a move away from the use of fossil fuels to the use of renewable sources of energy, zero global population growth, a reduced standard of living for the rich, an increased standard of living for the poor and an appeal to quality of life instead of materialism.

By far the most important source of disruption of the environment comes from the use of fossil fuels for energy.

They can support sustainable energy sources for home electricity — and move away from fossil fuels — by signing up for «Make the Switch,» a partnership between Mass Audubon and the nonprofit Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance (Mass Enenergy sources for home electricity — and move away from fossil fuels — by signing up for «Make the Switch,» a partnership between Mass Audubon and the nonprofit Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance (Mass EnEnergy Consumers Alliance (Mass EnergyEnergy).

Turns out, $ 750 million worth of State money is going to SolarCity to build solar panels, which will presumably be in high demand as the nation transfers away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy sources.

Apart from the nuclear issue, the exploitation of Scotland's fossil - fuel resources is a major industrial activity, and even more a source of tax revenue, while there is outstanding potential for renewable energy generation, especially wind, wave and tidal.

Having the Belleayre, Gore and Whiteface ski centers join The Climate Reality Project's «I Am Snow 100 %» program is in line with Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, which requires that half of all electricity used in New York come from renewable sources, rather than fossil fuels, by 2030, the governor's office said in a press release.

He's said he would work to create accessible waterfront areas in each neighborhood, and additionally supports efforts to reallocate city funds away from fossil fuel companies and instead towards renewable clean energy sources.

The approval of the natural gas - fired plant came at a time when the administration was generally attempting to move away from fossil fuel generation and toward renewable energy generation, per its Reforming Energy Vision, which seeks to make the energy grid more reliant on renewable sources and more effienergy generation, per its Reforming Energy Vision, which seeks to make the energy grid more reliant on renewable sources and more effiEnergy Vision, which seeks to make the energy grid more reliant on renewable sources and more effienergy grid more reliant on renewable sources and more efficient.

This can partially be achieved by beginning to shift from fossil fuels, to alternative sources of energy, including solar energy.

Green Party activist Howie Hawkins acknowledges that any transition from fossil fuel - generated energy to renewable sources will cause a displacement in the workforce.

Now Solarize Tompkins, the most successful program getting property owners to go solar, is looking ahead to other alternative energy sources for homeowners looking to break from fossil fuels.

Under the Reforming Energy Vision plan, power will come from smaller sources, including solar and wind, not large power plants that burn fossil fuels.

We are focused on ways to discourage companies from burning fossil fuels and to encourage development of alternative energy sources,» said Garrido.

Many communities in other parts of the country are also grappling with a transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy.

Walter sees the benefits of using methane as an energy source as twofold: «Not only does it prevent a potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere by converting it to weaker greenhouse gases — water vapor and carbon dioxide — but using it on - site would also reduce the demand for other fossil - fuel sources.»

In February 1977, two weeks after taking office, Carter urged Americans to turn down their thermostats and announced a plan to move the U.S. away from fossil fuels and toward a system based on solar and other renewable energy sources.

By harnessing energy from the sun — «this handy fusion reactor in the sky,» he called it last night — getting enough renewable energy on the power grid and smoothing out energy generation and use between peak and off - peak hours, the nation and planet can shift away from fossil fuels» dominance as a power source, he told the crowd.

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.

Previously, researchers have produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Wind power is one of the key sources of renewable energy expected to play an important role in helping to cut emissions and wean society from its dependence on fossil fuels, which means wind - power companies must be prepared to quickly fix mechanical problems that threaten to slow down renewable energy production.

Electric power generated by renewable energy sources causes substantially less pollution than energy generated from fossil fuels, the report says.

But by putting the targets into law and mandating a set of regulations — including requiring 35 percent of the country's electricity to come from clean sources by 2024; establishing a voluntary carbon market; developing incentives to promote renewable energy; phasing out fossil fuel subsidies; and forcing companies in the largest carbon polluting sectors to report their emissions — they said the results could be groundbreaking.

China's newly released five - year plan requires that China source 11.4 percent of its energy needs from other than fossil - fuel — at least 43 gigawatts of that to come from nuclear alone — up from slightly more than 8 percent now.

* Embrace the «all of the above» message on energy policy — that is, getting energy from a variety of sources, including fossil fuels — as voters already see Democrats supporting renewable energy development.

From the Post Carbon Institute comes a quick video of the history of fossil fuels and the growth of the modern economy over the last 300 years: You might also be interested in this recent post: «Energy source transitions over time - what comes next?

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.

Though he hasn't provided many specifics, Trump has publicly said he is eager to streamline the process and make it as easy as possible for energy companies to extract fossil fuels from public lands, which are the source of about 24 percent of America's fossil fuels, including about 40 percent of all the coal produced in the U.S.

No matter how you look at it, I think there's only one long - term solution: to stop using carbon as a source of energy, to switch away from using fossil fuels.

While we are disappointed with DOE's decision to exclude Holtec from the award, we remain confident that our reactor, the SMR - 160, has the greatest potential to triumph in a global marketplace because it is designed to meet the highest expectations of safety and is uniquely engineered to compete economically with other sources of alternative energy in the evolving era of cheap fossil fuels.

Industrial Revolution A period of time beginning around 1750 marked by new manufacturing processes and a switch from wood to coal and other fossil fuels as a main source of energy.

Results: With the increasing emphasis on sustainable energy sources, biofuels derived from animal or plant lipids — oils and fats — have been proposed as a promising substitute for fossil fuels.

Industrial Revolution A period of time in the early 1800s marked by new manufacturing processes and a switch from wood to coal and other fossil fuels as a main source of energy.

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.

The government says that completely banning fossil fuels from local industry will be a «titanic and beautiful task,» even though the country already generates more than 99 percent of its electricity using renewable energy sources.

Even though the country already generates over 99 percent of its electricity from renewable sources and ran entirely on alternative energy for 250 days in 2016, completely banning fossil fuels across all industries will likely prove difficult.

We can then do the simple math of subtracting the energy available from renewable sources (now and into the near future) and what we're left with is how much energy needs to come from fossil fuels.

Solar power may look terribly uneconomical at the moment, but with the exponential progress being made in nanoengineering, Dr. Kurzweil calculates that it'll be cost - competitive with fossil fuels in just five years, and that within 20 years all our energy will come from clean sources.»

But that's the catch: right now and in the immediate future manufacture, transport and installation of non-fossil energy sources, from windmill farms to solar thermal plants to solar voltaic panels, will require the emission of fossil fuel generated CO2.

I agree with SA that, once the transition is well advanced, there's no reason why energy from renewable sources has to cost more than energy from fossil fuels, when all costs are counted.

Even if there were no deniers around, I can't see humanity transforming our entire global civilization from one based on fossil fuels to one based on renewable energy sources — especially not in the required couple of decades.