Sentences with phrase «from traditional fossil fuels»

Most importantly, we had to actively promote the importance of renewable energy and to raise awareness for climate - related topics among the public — especially given that electricity from renewable sources is a little pricier than energy from traditional fossil fuels.

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«Building on Ottawa's earlier commitments to set a national carbon price, establish a clean fuel standard and to phase out traditional coal power, these measures will help Canada make the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.

This is done not only by supplying renewable energy from the closed anaerobic reactor, thus reducing or even eliminating reliance on fossil fuels, but also by replacing traditional, open, methane - producing lagoons, and by replacing power - consuming, sludge - producing aerobic WWTPs.

shift away from traditional uses of finite fossil fuels.

And, at least in his recent video interview with Carbon Brief, it seems Lee, like many economists who came of age at the peak of the traditional environmental movement, has a very locked - in view that raising the cost of polluting is the critical way to shift global economies away from cheap fossil fuels.

[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.

In its report on next year's Pentagon budget, the House Armed Services Committee banned the Defense Department from making or buying an alternative fuel that costs more than a «traditional fossil fuel.»

How sad it is that Obama, who has openly spruiked the «Spanish Model» in his determination to go «green», has failed to understand that the «Spanish Model» has been publicly acknowledged, by none other than the Spanish Prime Minister, as having caused untold damage to the Spanish economy and is simply not viable as a replacement for cheap and abundant traditional energy from fossil fuels to drive a modern economy.

And this same period saw the expansion of fossil fuel burning from the traditional family needs like heating / cooking, then on to quickly power - up both modern modern agriculture and also the industrial - mass production revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale generation of ubiquitous electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.

Although renewables continue to be more and more attractive than fossil fuels, U.S. policy is moving away from clean energy in favor of traditional fossil fuels like coal.

Successful 1.9 W m − 2 scenarios are characterized by a rapid shift away from traditional fossil - fuel use towards large - scale low - carbon energy supplies, reduced energy use, and carbon - dioxide removal.

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

Traditional anthropogenic theory of currently observed global warming states that release of carbon dioxide into atmosphere (partially as a result of utilization of fossil fuels) leads to an increase in atmospheric temperature because the molecules of CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) absorb the infrared radiation from the Earth's surface.

When the wind isn't blowing and the rivers are low, they will buy power from traditional sources that include electricity generated from fossil fuels.

In the United States, the Sierra Club's campaign against dams (which began for traditional conservationist reasons) received a big boost from Big Oil in California, who wanted to sell gas for electricity generation and therefore wanted to curb hydro - electricity (which was then the main competitor to fossil fuels for this purpose).

Currently, fossil fuels provide almost 80 % of world energy supply; a transition away from their traditional use to zero - and low - carbon - emitting modern energy systems (including carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS)(IPCC, 2005), as well as improved energy efficiency, would be part solutions to GHG - emission reduction.

PDF) entitled «Disruptive Challenges» in January 2013, outlining the threat that distributed energy generation presents to the traditional utility industry business model of selling electricity from large, centralized, mostly fossil fuel power plants.

GM's awesome ability to innovate has resulted in a «hybrid» that gets 16x more drive time from the burning of traditional fossil fuels than it does by running on its own charged batteries.