Sentences with phrase «generated by fossil fuel»

We know we aren't going to transform our economy overnight, but there is strong public support to take the wealth being generated by our fossil fuel resources and use it to accelerate our transition to a better, more sustainable economy, one where Canadians both sell and consume clean - energy technologies and services.

The wind farms could generate up to 800MW of electricity and an annual output of 2.6 - megawatt hours, which would power around 554,000 homes and prevent one million tonnes of carbon dioxide being generated by fossil fuel power.

The electricity generated is fed to the national grid, and replaces electricity which would otherwise be generated by fossil fuel fed power plants, resulting in further emission reductions.

Environmentally speaking, the Model S is classed as a zero - emissions vehicle, but as most of the UK's domestic electricity is generated by fossil fuel - burning power stations (as of 2014, about 30 per cent gas and 29 per cent coal), every mile you drive still has a CO2 consequence.

The electrons remain at the center and are then free to do work, just like the electrons generated by fossil fuel combustion.

«Certainly for the next several decades, the majority of electricity will be generated by fossil fuels in a fairly conventional way,» says Bill Moomaw, an international energy policy expert at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, primarily because it is cheap and readily available.

And right now, 85 % of the energy used in the United States is generated by fossil fuels.

The other 70 percent of time, they must be backed up by energy generated by fossil fuels.

Wind and solar generation are qualitatively different from electricity generated by fossil fuels, nuclear energy, or hydropower.

Bart R — I believe that electricity, even if it is generated by fossil fuels including coal, is good for the poor in that it increases life expectancy and think that the following analysis supports that conclusion.

Checking different sources, this claim is confirmed: 1 kilowatt - hour of electricity generated by fossil fuels indeed emits 10 times as much CO2 (around 450 grams of CO2 per kWh for gas and 850 for coal).

Solar panels might be far from an ideal solution, but they are definitely a better choice compared to electricity generated by fossil fuels.

Both technologies are now well within the cost range of power generated by fossil fuels.

Despite their promise, organic solar cells will be only one part of the quest to bring photovoltaics to the point where their cost - per - kilowatt is competitive with electrical power generated by fossil fuels or nuclear energy, Chan says.

Not exact matches

Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from old - fashioned air pollution, generated by electric power plants that burn fossil fuels.

China has already hit peak coal, but the fossil fuel does still account for 65 % of the country's power generated by source.

That's why it is expected that by 2020, only 22 % of electricity will be generated from the fossil fuel.

Poor nations are at present relatively minor contributors to the carbon dioxide generated by burning fossil fuels.

According to previous studies, that amount — between 44 million and 146 million metric tons of CO2 — offsets a tiny fraction of the estimated 35.3 billion metric tons of CO2 generated by the burning of fossil fuels and other industrial activity in 2013.

Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.

Electric power generated by renewable energy sources causes substantially less pollution than energy generated from fossil fuels, the report says.

Some people charge their battery electric cars by plugging into the power grid, which delivers electricity generated largely from carbon - emitting fossil fuels.

A report by the group concludes that biomass gasi - fication plants could generate more power more cleanly and cheaply than conventional fossil fuels.

He found that «each unit of electricity generated by non-fossil-fuel sources displaced less than one - tenth of a unit of fossil - fuel - generated electricity.»

The ocean absorbs a third of carbon dioxide (CO2) generated by the burning of fossil fuels — a priceless «service» reducing global warming.

In spite of current energy trends moving towards green and renewable options, Alberta is planning on double its production of fossil fuels by 2030, meaning that higher supply will generate lower market rates, presenting a more affordable alternative to the American market.

In just the past 2 hours, the sun showered more energy on earth than humanity has ever generated by digging up and burning fossil fuels over the past 2000 years.

Doing this with our organic wastes - biofuel crop, some energy is generated and we could greatly expand windmill generated electricity that has no GHG emissions and actually recycles some of the energy excess created by fossil fuels.

Yet the fact that oceans are currently a net sink for CO2 and actively absorbing in the neighborhood of 40 % of the CO2 emissions generated by the burning of fossil fuels is well - documented through observations.

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

This would include costs like storing and monitoring nuclear waste indefinitely, CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by fossil fuels, nitrous oxides and sulfur oxides from coal degrading the environment through acid rain, maintaining a large military to protect our oil supply lines from the middle east, pollutants entering water supplies from solar panel manufacture, pollutants generated by drilling for gas, etc., etc..

Keep in mind that the overwhelming majority of greenhouse gases have been, and continue to be, emitted by the massive fossil fuel consumption of a tiny percentage of the Earth's human population, most of them in countries with low rates of population growth — and that the overwhelming majority of human beings on the Earth, particularly those in countries with relatively high rates of population growth, generate only a small amount of greenhouse gases.

Consider telling africain countries that generate their electicity by burning fossil fuels, that they have to stop.

I'd suggest the growing body of research concluding that what was once seen as an inevitable descent into the next ice age has been put off for a very long time by the building blanket of greenhouse gases generated by humanity's burst of fossil fuel combustion.

For example, an «energy security fee» of $ 3.50 per barrel of imported oil would raise approximately $ 15 billion annually; reduced fossil fuel subsidies as proposed by the administration could generate upwards of $ 35 billion over ten years; a utilities electricity fee could raise at least $ 2 billion annually, as included in the Kerry - Lieberman American Power Act; and royalties on new offshore continental shelf drilling could raise more than $ 100 billion over twenty years.

The main difference with this was that it was often (especially in Australia) generated by burning another fossil fuel: coal rather than oil.

That is because global warming, driven in part by the colossal fossil fuel consumption of today's massive global jetliner fleet, is expected to generate stronger wind shear within the stratospheric jetstreams.

The idea that CO2 generated from burning fossil fuels will raise the atmospheric concentration of CO2 for centuries, as represented by the Bern model, was already ridiculous.

Electricity, especially in Australia, is commonly generated by burning fossil fuels; this is obviously unsustainable from several points of view.

The CPP specifies intensity rate targets for existing fossil fuel - fired electric generating units operating or under construction as of early 2014, with the stated aim of reducing carbon emissions in the power sector by 30 % from 2005 levels by 2030.

The United States faces a vexing challenge in switching from conventional to clean sources to generate electricity: How do we replace fossil fuel when natural gas costs $ 4 per million BTU and demand for electricity is expected to increase by over 20 % by 2035?

Fossil fuel combustion has dispersed fly ash particles worldwide, pretty well coincident with the peak distribution of the «bomb spike» of radionuclides generated by atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons, Dr Waters says.

Question 4: what would be the atmospheric CO2 consequences of an Apollo - like project to replace 25 % of America's fossil fuel powered electric generating capacity by PV power in 10 years?

Since, the solar power is Green House Gas (GHG) emissions free, the power generated will replace anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases estimated to be approximately 93,022 tonnes of CO2e per year, thereon displacing 95,145 MWh / year amount of electricity from the generation - mix of power plants connected to the INDIAN GRID, which is mainly dominated by fossil fuel based power plant.

It was spurred by Microsoft's quest to combat climate change by using electricity that does not generate the carbon emissions released by fossil - fuel combustion.

In looking at the broad shifts from 2006 to the Plan B energy economy of 2020, fossil fuel — generated electricity drops by 90 percent.

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.

Backing out fossil fuels begins with the electricity sector, where the development of 5,153 gigawatts of new renewable generating capacity by 2020, over half of it from wind, would be more than enough to replace all the coal and oil and 70 percent of the natural gas now used to generate electricity.

With nuclear power cheaper than fossil fuel generated electricity it could avoid 50 % of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels by around mid 21st Century (and achieve the other objectives in the list).

This was due to the inherent nature of wind energy, and the realities of necessarily continuously balancing the grid, on a second - by - second basis, with fossil - fuel - generated electricity (typically gas).