Sentences with phrase «fuel switching from»

Earth scientist Bill Chameides, dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and a former chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, urges the administration to use its Clean Air Act authority to promulgate carbon regulations for existing power plants like it has for new ones: «Doing that will force fuel switching from coal to natural gas.»

For this reason we felt it was an interesting area to investigate, and to understand what helped this to happen in Britain at such scale and with such speed, and whether there were lessons here for other countries to consider in terms of rapid reductions in CO2 emissions from incentivizing fuel switching from coal to natural gas.»

CCS offers the opportunity to meet climate change objectives while providing energy security, as part of a portfolio of options including energy efficiency, renewable energy, nuclear energy, more efficient coal technologies and fuel switching from coal to gas.

As I demonstrated in the post, the U.S. has been the most successful country over the last decade in reducing its emissions; most of that is due to fuel switching from coal to natural gas.

Carbon emission reductions could be achieved through energy conservation, increased use of renewable and other non-emitting energy or fuel switching from coal to natural gas in existing power plants.

This flattening of emissions was due to the growth of renewable power generation, fuel switching from coal to natural gas and energy efficiency gains, among other changes.

[1] My rationale is that historical emissions decreases have been largely driven by fuel switching from a more expensive to cheaper and less emitting fuel.

The report showed that emissions dropped 3.4 percent from 2012 to 2011, mostly due to a decrease in energy consumption and fuel switching from coal to natural gas.

Likewise, much of the UK's current achievements are the result of a fuel switch from coal to gas in the 1990s when gas was cheaper than coal.

Not exact matches

Whether it's switching to «no till» farming (which stirs up the soil less and requires less fuel), buying GPS - tracking systems to efficiently apply fertilizer or — as the Lambricks do — selling their products at a stand on the side of the road, many growers have already tried squeezing as much profit as they can from their operations.

Add in productivity gains and fuel savings from more efficient travel, and a switch to fully automated car fleets could save the U.S. economy a staggering US$ 1.3 trillion a year, Morgan Stanley estimates.

As our energy system increasingly switches from fossil fuels to clean power, we will need both more renewable energy supply and greater integration of our power grids.

China's natural gas demand has been boosted by price cuts aimed at switching users from coal to the cleaner - burning fuel, according to one of the country's biggest gas distributors.

The poll also found strong support for other policies that would help accelerate Canada's transition to clean energy, including federal support to help provinces use more renewable electricity, switching buildings and vehicles to clean power, and measures to cut the carbon emissions from gasoline and diesel fuel.

Switching your fuel source from carbs to fat has benefits for just about everyone, and that's why this diet has been so helpful to me.

Much growth is fueled by drinkers «who are switching to red blends from other types of wines,» said Brian Lechner, Nielsen vice president, group client director for alcoholic beverages.

According to, let's call him Tom, this diet requires a very high fat, adequate protein, and low carb intake, which trains your body to switch it's primary fuel source from carbohydrates to burning fat fuels.

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 Energy).

Brazil, on the other hand, has managed to provide 40 percent of its transportation fuel from sugarcane - derived ethanol and helped develop the flex - fuel technology that now allows drivers in the U.S. to switch between gasoline and the biofuel.

«In terms of consumer ownership and use costs, the case to make a switch from current fuels to compressed natural gas (CNG) is much more compelling than for other alternative fuels like ethanol and electricity.»

As city - dwellers and tourists switch from riding fossil fuel - powered vehicles to public bikes, more than 30,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions is reduced annually, estimates Tao Xuejun, vice president of the program.

But in November and December 2005, wind power in Colorado cost less than electricity from fossil fuel, and the average household that switched to wind saved $ 4 a month on its electric bill.

«From wind to coal and coal to oil to nuclear, there have always been naysayers,» said Mabus, recalling previous Navy efforts to switch motive fuels.

«The moment anyone tries to charge above that amount, people will switch to fuels derived from natural gas.»

And those five problems are climate change, petro - dictatorship — the rise of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — energy and natural resource supply, and demand constraints, and we see that from food to fuel today, biodiversity loss, the fact that we are right now in the middle of the sixth great extinction phase in the Earth's history that we know of; and finally something I call energy poverty, the 1.6 billion people on the planet we [who] still have no on - off switch in their life because they've no direct grid electricity.

The fuel - injected Honda engine, however, did not come with an electric motor starter, which made switching from gas to electric power more complicated.

In this context, switching from high - cost diesel to a low - carbon alternative fuel isn't just the green thing to do; it's key to ensuring consumer products stay at affordable prices, Elizabeth Fretheim, director of business strategy and sustainability logistics at Wal - Mart Stores Inc., explained at a symposium last week hosted by the nonprofit group Business for Social Responsibility (BSR).

Data collection was performed from January to May 2011, and the analyses took place before, during and after a sharp fluctuation in ethanol prices — owing to macroeconomic factors such as the international price of sugar (Brazilian ethanol is made from sugarcane)-- leading consumers to switch motor fuels in São Paulo City.

The Asian forecast contrasts sharply to projections for the United States, which is expected to see sagging domestic demand as power plants undergo fuel switching away from coal.

A switch from coal or oil to other fuels.

Voters tend to favor political candidates who believe that humans have contributed to global warming and that the nation should take action by switching from fossil fuels to solar and wind power, according to Stanford University's national survey.

Or put another way, as I have said, just switching the use of already existing carbon from food to fuel does not result in any direct net gain.

And the logistics and transport industries will have to switch from internal combustion engines to fuel cells and driverless transport.

Switching from fossil fuels could save as many as 1.3 million people's lives a year by 2050, allowing them to continue contributing to society

Consumption skyrockets even as efficiency improves To clean up its power sector, Singapore has switched from burning oil for electricity to burning natural gas, the cleanest form of fossil fuels.

A Northwestern University study by an economist and a chemist reports that when fuel prices drove residents of São Paulo, Brazil, to mostly switch from ethanol to gasoline in their flexible - fuel vehicles, local ozone levels dropped 20 percent.

He has also worked with government leaders on switching energy economies from fossil fuels to renewables, and has traveled to places such as Greenland and India to witness firsthand the damaging effects of our carbon - addicted world.

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.

It could buy time to make the switch from fossil fuels to renewables.

The jist of this is that we must NOT suddenly switch off carbon / sulphur producing industries over the planet but instead we must first dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from every conceivable source, then gradually tackle coal / fossil fuel sources to smoothly remove the soot from the air to prevent a sudden leap in average global temps which if it is indeed 2.75 C as the UNEP predicts will permanently destroy the climates ability to regulate itself and lead to catastrophic changes on the land and sea.

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.

Ethanol fuel is produced from sugar cane in Brazil and from the cellulose of a wide variety of plants, including cornstalks, poplar trees, and switch grass, as well as waste left over from the forest products industry, wheat, oat, and barley straw.

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy - duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University....

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 purpose of the ketogenic diet is to switch our bodies from using carbohydrates for fuel to burning ketones instead.

This means that your body gets used to switching from burning glucose for fuel to burning fat to provide your body with energy, something it loses practice at when we're eating every three or four hours.

The result is that the body (especially the mitochondria that produce the energy) become confused, losing the ability to make the switch from one fuel source to the next; fats end up getting stored and metabolic inflexibility ensues.

As your body switches over from fueling itself with carbohydrate to fat, there is going to be a little bit of a lag.

✓ Sugar Cravings: You may develop intense sugar cravings as your body switches from sugar to fat for fuel.

While in ketosis our bodies switch from burning carbs for fuel to burning fat for the energy we need!