Not exact matches
Some states are
already raising their
fuel taxes to pay for
infrastructure projects.
Decmil Group has won about $ 40 million worth of work at Hancock Prospecting's Roy Hill iron ore project in the Pilbara, building on its portfolio of port, rail and
fuel infrastructure work
already under way at the site.
Reducing
fuel use, emissions and «havoc» A Department of Transportation pilot project underway in Ann Arbor, Mich., has
already collected 7 billion safety messages exchanged among 3,000 cars, trucks and transit buses equipped with vehicle - to - vehicle (V2V) and vehicle - to -
infrastructure (V2I) technology.
«We found that with rapid growth in Chinese emissions and those «locked into» fossil -
fuel based
infrastructure, China has
already exceeded its «quota» under population - based sharing,» said Andrew.
I can see the main
fuel of the future being methane, we
already have an
infrastructure for it.
To me this would appear to be a worst case scenario, based on the least developed economies building up energy
infrastructures largely using fossil
fuels, in order to pull their populations out of poverty, as China and India are doing today (thereby reducing their rate of population growth as they become more affluent and improving their carbon efficiencies) and the remaining societies continuing to improve their overall carbon efficiencies as they have
already been doing.
Given that existing fossil
fuel operations
already exceed the carbon budget left to avoid catastrophic, irreversible changes to our climate, there is no justification for new fossil
fuel infrastructure, especially on the scale of the Southern Gas Corridor.
Already is
infrastructure in place to collect
fuel excise taxes.
According to Lorne Stockman of Oil Change International, a think - tank focused on the post-carbon economy, it isn't clear how popular the new offshore leases will be with fossil
fuel companies, particularly outside those areas of the Gulf
already crowded with rigs and
infrastructure.
A surge in resource and design innovation is
already presenting interesting opportunities for investors to capture value as the global energy
infrastructure, and other fossil
fuel dependent industries, are undergoing a transformation driven by these macro themes.
13 Fossil
Fuels: Historical Development Fossil Fuels: Historical Development Coal: ~ 1000 BC: China 18th Century: Industrial Revolution Textile manufacturing machines (spinning jenny) Steam engine Iron and steel manufacturing As industry spread, rate of energy usage increased Industry tended to build in areas where fossil fuel supplies were already in abundance Infrastructure was developed / improved for transporting fossil fuels (i.e. coal) and the products made by ind
Fuels: Historical Development Fossil
Fuels: Historical Development Coal: ~ 1000 BC: China 18th Century: Industrial Revolution Textile manufacturing machines (spinning jenny) Steam engine Iron and steel manufacturing As industry spread, rate of energy usage increased Industry tended to build in areas where fossil fuel supplies were already in abundance Infrastructure was developed / improved for transporting fossil fuels (i.e. coal) and the products made by ind
Fuels: Historical Development Coal: ~ 1000 BC: China 18th Century: Industrial Revolution Textile manufacturing machines (spinning jenny) Steam engine Iron and steel manufacturing As industry spread, rate of energy usage increased Industry tended to build in areas where fossil
fuel supplies were
already in abundance
Infrastructure was developed / improved for transporting fossil
fuels (i.e. coal) and the products made by ind
fuels (i.e. coal) and the products made by industry
I think what we are seeing is that the
infrastructure is
already in place for fossil
fuels and therefore does not require massive amounts of investment.
Twenty - first century clean energy technologies are
already being designed, built, marketed, and installed to replace more than a century's worth of entrenched fossil
fuel infrastructure, and a recent report by the Department of Commerce indicates that there are nearly 2 million clean energy jobs in our economy today, with more on the way.