Sentences with phrase «fuel energy sources through»

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But fossil fuels will still serve as a source of energy demand, and so the only way to achieve our goal is through carbon - capture technology.

Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

Rather, the world's largest oil company maintained that all sources of energy, including fossil fuels, will be necessary to meet the future global demand and that the best path toward managing greenhouse gas emissions is through technology advancement and adoption of energy efficiency programs.

Green leaves use energy from sunlight through photosynthesis to chemically combine carbon dioxide drawn in from the air with water and nutrients tapped from the ground to produce sugars, which are the main source of food, fiber and fuel for life on Earth.

Carbohydrates are the body's main source of fuel, and they're broken down and circulate through the blood with energy for your system.

In conclusion, pre-workout nutrition is important as it gives your body the fuel it needs to get through your regime without having to turn to other sources of energy.

Carbs are the best source of fuel for working muscles because they give you a quick hit of energy to help you power through a workout, says Pamela M. Nisevich, MS, RD, LD, a Dayton, Ohio — based nutrition consultant.

On one side are the world's industrialized nations, which largely built their wealth through a century of fossil - fuel combustion; on the other, those seeking a path out of poverty that, for the moment, has to depend on the same energy sources, and in many cases also on clearing forests.

The moral of the story, in essence, is that «future energy» — at least through the next couple of decades — is largely the same as current energy, with gains in efficiency and growth in adoption of renewable sources and nuclear power still not substantially blunting growth in the combustion of fossil fuels.

The two are inextricably linked through the fact that our main source of energy is fossil fuels.

Through various life cycle assessment studies (Searchinger et al, 2008; DeCicco et al, 2016) performed on annual bioenergy crops such as corn, it has been shown that they are not much better than fossil fuel energy sources in terms of climate and energy impacts.

When the fossil fuel sources of these environmental impacts are made to pay the true cost of the pollution created, through mandated updated technological fixes such as improved and more efficient pollution control, limited coal sources, and other mediation devices, the true cost of coal will make other energy sources more viable.

If people use less energy (through efficiency and conservation) and shift to lower - carbon energy sources, demand for high - carbon energy will decline and it won't be economical to go chasing after unconventional fuels.

«Electricity from Renewable Energy and Fossil Fuels with Carbon Capture and Sequestration», the fourth report in the CEF publication series, examines electricity generation through fossil fuel combustion with CO2 capture and sequestration («fossil / CCS»)- a process that removes as much carbon as possible from major emissions sources such as power plants, and stores it in deep geological formations.

We will continue to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions through innovation and technology breakthroughs, and work with other countries to help them access and use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently and deploy renewable and other clean energy sources, given the importance of energy access and security in many nationally determined contributions.

With a carbon price, some fossil fuels would continue to be extracted because it would still be cost - effective to do so: the market would decide efficiently which energy sources to use, where energy can be saved through energy efficiency improvements, and which fossil fuels to leave in the ground.

But let's not forget the most CO2 - intensive fossil fuels (coal, tar sands) do still deserve the highest priority — and are hardest hit economically through proper understanding of carbon bubble fossil overinvestment and rising competition from renewable energy sources.]

Table 5 — 2 by Earth Policy Institute with existing fossil fuel and nuclear capacity from «Existing Capacity by Energy Source, 2007,» and «Planned Nameplate Capacity Additions from New Generators, by Energy Source, 2008 through 2012,» in DOE, op.

Particularly since we have a climate change bill making its way through Congress that will, at long last, if all goes well, put a price on carbon emissions — thereby giving low - carbon energy sources what they desperately need, which is a fighting chance to compete with fossil fuels on something resembling a level playing field.

Renewable Energy Production Carbon Offsets — Renewable energy facilities, such as wind or solar, generate Carbon Offsets through displacing fossil fuel - based electricity production sources within the powerEnergy Production Carbon Offsets — Renewable energy facilities, such as wind or solar, generate Carbon Offsets through displacing fossil fuel - based electricity production sources within the powerenergy facilities, such as wind or solar, generate Carbon Offsets through displacing fossil fuel - based electricity production sources within the power grid.

How about estimating the social benefit of carbon (i.e. of the access to a reliable low - cost source of energy through fossil fuels).

Addressing the first question in Nature Climate Change, Sanchez et al. (2015) find that western North America could attain a carbon - negative power system by 2050 through strong deployment of renewable energy sources, including BioEnergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), and fossil fuel reductions.

Though solar energy remains expensive, reducing a ton of emissions by generating electricity from essentially carbon - free sources such as nuclear or wind energy is cheaper than reducing a ton of emissions through low - carbon transportation fuels such as ethanol.

And, I have yet to be convinced an electric vehicle that draws its energy from a fossil fuel source operating through a heat cycle converter is sufficiently more fossil fuel efficient than a gas - driven vehicle to make a significant difference on the scale of what is required.

In the long term, the IEO2017 Reference case projects increased world consumption of marketed energy from all fuel sources — except coal, where demand is essentially flat — through 2040 (Figure 2).

Although solar (mainly PV) is the largest single energy source by that time, total carbon consumed through fossil fuel use amounts to 800 billion tonnes carbon by the end of the century, just a bit less than current proven reserves (900 billion tonnes as indicated above).

One of the studies found that 2025 emissions could be reduced by as much as 4.5 GtCO2e through a variety of actions available to local governments and businesses, such as aggressive replacement of coal - fired energy production with clean energy sources and the implementation of policies like the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard and tougher vehicular fuel standards regardless of whether the federal government pursues them or not.