On this planet, the consensus is that we have to dial back our fossil
fuel use dramatically and can not possibly survive twice as many cars and planes.
Not exact matches
The reason for this is that many countries in Asia
used the prior period of falling crude prices to end, or
dramatically scale back, their
fuel subsidies.
«We can in fact help other parts of the world reduce their greenhouse gas emissions
dramatically by providing them with lower - carbon
fuels in other parts of the world where they are
using very high - carbon
fuels like coal.»
Once you get the affordable cloths, you need
dramatically fewer products, which results in fewer chemicals, fewer containers, less
fuel used for transport, etc..
Energy mogul Catsimatidis stands to make a killing — estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars a year — as the City Council and the de Blasio administration move to approve legislation to
dramatically boost the
use of biodiesel
fuel in home heating oil, The Post has learned.
Housing benefit no longer covers the rent, heating allowances fail to cover the cost of
fuel and crisis loans that
used to cover cookers or beds have been
dramatically slashed.
«Armed with this new understanding, practitioners will be able to design catalysts
using just the necessary amount of the precious metals like gold and platinum,
dramatically cutting down the catalyst cost in
fuels and chemicals production processes,» she adds.
By
dramatically improving the speed and efficiency of conversion over conventional approaches, these enzymes could stimulate efforts to grow crops for
fuel, with implications for biodiversity in the form of increased land
use for this purpose, potential shifts away from fossil
fuel use and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
«We can
dramatically improve
fuel efficiency by making our cars lighter, including the greater
use [of] carbon fiber, which is also stronger than metal.
Synthetic
fuels have one particular advantage over batteries or hydrogen as a route to low - carbon transport: by dropping in exactly where fossil
fuels are
used now, they can reduce emissions
dramatically without the need for major new infrastructure or changes in consumer behaviour, which may be decisive in certain cases.
The algae
uses CO2 from air or industrial emitters with sunlight and saltwater to create
fuel while
dramatically reducing the carbon footprint, costs and water usage, with no reliance on food crops as feedstocks.
The concentration of atmospheric CO2 has increased
dramatically since the Industrial Revolution (from around 280 parts per million [ppm] in preindustrial times to 401 ppm in 2015), primarily due to human activities such as the burning of fossil
fuels and changes in land -
use.
Intermittent fasting helps reset your body to
use fat as its primary
fuel, and mounting evidence confirms that when your body becomes adapted to burning FAT instead of sugar as its primary
fuel, you
dramatically reduce your risk of chronic disease
This tiny motor is set to replace the regular non-turbo 1.6 that
used to be the Focus range's centre of gravity, producing the same 123bhp, a lot more low - end torque and
dramatically improved
fuel economy, in real driving as well as in the official figures.
In addition,
using coal in large centralized plants
dramatically reduces the burning of
fuel wood and waste that causes enormous indoor air pollution in developing nations.
«Exxon's «Lights Across America» website advertisement states that natural gas is «helping
dramatically reduce America's emissions» even though natural gas is a fossil
fuel causing widespread planetary warming and harm to coastal cities like San Francisco and the
use of natural gas competes with wind and solar, which have no greenhouse gas emissions.»
Ultra-low sulfur diesel
fuel has 99.5 percent less sulfur — and is now produced for all highway and non-road
uses, allowing for
dramatically reduced nitrogen oxide emissions from newer diesel engines.
The United States has the potential to
dramatically expand biomass
use for
fuel and power.
During the 1990s and 2000s, the generation costs for plants
fueled by natural gas fell
dramatically as a result of lower natural gas
fuel prices and the increased
use of combined cycle technology for power generation.
The tailpipe is the exhaust of a fossil
fuel heater
used to keep the cabin warm in cold weather, since
using an electric radiant heater would
dramatically shorten the electric car's range.
In addition, Ultra-low sulfur diesel
fuel now produced for all highway and non-road
uses has 99.7 percent less sulfur, allowing for
dramatically reduced nitrogen oxide emissions in newer diesel engines.
Meanwhile, infrastructure to produce biofuels - costing tens of billions of dollars - will have to be built, biofuel imports must become available, and fossil
fuel use will have to decline
dramatically.
The latter included many examples of beautiful hope and simplicity, like the guy leaving a good corporate job to help run a social start - up called Wonderbags, which
uses insulated bags to
dramatically reduce the dangers and expense of cooking
fuel in poor villages in Africa.
In public spaces, towns can look at providing solar powered on - site compactors, which can hold five times the amount of waste as a traditional bin,
dramatically reducing collection trips and thus fleet
fuel use.
«[E] nding tropical forest loss, improving tropical forest management, and restoring 500 million hectares of tropical forests could reduce sufficient emissions to provide 10 - 15 years of additional time to
dramatically reduce our
use of fossil
fuels,» the report states.
But let's not kid anyone — the price of fossil
fuel based energy has to rise
dramatically in order to encourage people to
use less of it.