Sentences with phrase «fuel reserves become»

The problem is it won't be the cheapest without major technological breakthroughs in safe nuclear power generation and / or fossil fuel reserves become so depleted the cost of recovery makes the price surpass that of current nuclear power generation.

A head - in - the - sand approach invites an eventual economic upheaval along the lines of the recent Great Recession as fossil fuel reserves become the sub-prime mortgages of the next financial crisis.

Not exact matches

The sponsors withdrew the resolution after the company agreed to report on how much of its oil and gas reserves would become unsellable — or stranded — if a global treaty decreased fossil fuel demand.

Laughlin says the answer lies in the universe's secret fuel reserves: brown dwarfs, Jupiter - size balls of hydrogen too massive to be considered planets but that never achieved the heft to become full - fledged stars.

Moreover, it will result in your body becoming excessively endurance - focused, causing it to store energy in the form of fat so that it can reserve plenty of fuel for your cardio sessions.

Parts of foods that historically were disposed of, used for composting and considered waste or at best reserved for lower quality, utilitarian applications (like lamp oil) have suddenly become «food» through the alchemy of fossil fuel powered extraction and processing.

It causes the body to become more endurance - focused, storing energy as fat to ensure it has plenty of reserve fuel to keep you going for all those miles.

Proper utilisation of its oil and natural gas reserves has fuelled the economic growth of the sphere and the emirates have become a hub of industries.

In fact, many people (including the Governor of the Bank of England) are increasingly concerned that most fossil fuels are unburnable, meaning many existing reserves and investments in future exploration are in very real danger of becoming worthless.

When it does, more than $ 20 trillion worth of fossil fuel reserves will become stranded assets and the companies» value will plummet.

The introduction of machines powered by cheap and easily accessible fossil fuels led to a decline in the use of wind power, but since reserves of these fuels are finite and as the world becomes more conscious of the pollution generated by these fuels, focus has turned once again to tapping this free source of energy.

They can see that investing in companies that rely solely or heavily on constantly replenishing reserves of fossil fuels is becoming a very risky decision.

Second, the prices of fossil fuels have to rise, either because reserves become depleted or through the passage of regulatory encumbrances, such as a massive carbon tax.

Instead of urgent and far - reaching measures to preserve a livable climate, in the United States massive new fossil fuel reserves have become available through fracking.

Further analysis has identified the fossil fuel reserves and resources at risk of becoming economically «stranded assets» due to a low - carbon energy transition.

According to Carbon Tracker (PDF), there is a potential that 80 percent of the world's carbon reserves will become unburnable, which — if this situations holds true — would result in a $ 20 trillion write - off in losses by fossil fuel companies.

The analysis finds that expanding fossil fuel reserves does even more damage than putting the global climate in danger; exploration financing by the World Bank risks locking developing countries into loan commitments for resources that will likely become stranded assets if policies are implemented to meet agreed climate goals.

«Some of our stakeholders are concerned about the future of our fossil fuel reserves; in particular that they may become stranded assets,» Glasenberg wrote.

While stranded assets can apply to anything at risk for premature write - downs, this concept has become particularly intertwined with the «stranding» of fossil fuels reserves.

One of the rallying points was a scientific calculation that the rise of global temperature could not be held below 2 °C (the internationally accepted point at which the warming would become «dangerous») unless at least half the known reserves of fossil fuels were left in the ground.

However, some energy analysts — along with the energy companies such as Shell and ExxonMobil — express doubts over the possibility that fossil fuel reserves will become stranded.

Due to Australia's plentiful reserves of cheap coal, the liberalisation of the power industry has favoured its use, especially that of Victorian brown coal, which has become the primary fuel source for generation in the four southern states of the NEM.

According to the report's authors, «a material proportion of the world's undeveloped reserves of fossil fuels could become «unburnable.

Finally, Sweeney states that «If either bill became law, it would amount to a declaration of war on fossil - fuel interests, because much of the present - day stock market value of coal, oil, and gas companies is based on their below - the - ground reserves.»

As it becomes increasingly clear that we can't even burn all of the existing fossil fuels reserves we already have, financial experts are sounding alarm bells about companies sinking vast amounts of money into exploration and recovery of fuels that will eventually become worthless.

And it's since become the conventional wisdom: Many central bankers and world leaders now agree that we need to keep the bulk of fossil fuel reserves underground.

These techniques have allowed drillers to unlock vast underground shale reserves and caused the U.S. to become the world's largest liquid fuels producer.

Depleting fossil fuel reserves, depleting mineral reserves, widespread devastation of eco systems, depletion of biodiversity, acidification of oceans, dwindling fresh water resources, food production to food demand ratio becoming more acute, and of course the primary driver for all of the above continued increase in the world's population.