Sentences with phrase «greater fuel reserves»

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We also saw a nod to the government's push to grant Canadian resources greater market access: «Canada's energy reserves are vast — sufficient to fuel our growing economy and supply international customers for generations to come.

It is no coincidence that the citizens of Arab countries with limited fossil fuel reserves have enjoyed greater freedom over the years than their oil - rich neighbours.

Indeed, as the world's other energy reserves diminish, mining companies may find themselves compelled to invest in technologies for exploiting the world's last great reserve of carbon - based fuel.

But she reserves her greatest scorn for the labor - market conditions that have fueled them and for the absence of a government jobs policy.

For the first time, the mainstay of the Porsche line - up foregoes normally aspirated power in favour of a contemporary turbocharged engine — one that endows the volume - selling Carrera and Carrera S models with greater reserves than ever before, along with better fuel economy.

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.

Such a transition would save $ 1.8 trillion over the next two decades, says a study by the Climate Policy Initiative, which also found that governments and taxpayers will bear the greatest financial risk if fossil fuel reserves are stranded underground.

The analysis concludes that even a less ambitious climate goal, like a 3 °C rise in average global temperature or more, which would pose significantly greater risks for our society and economy, would still imply significant constraints on our use of fossil fuel reserves between now and 2050.

This analysis comes on the heels of reports from scientific bodies such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and International Energy Agency that suggest the world has far greater reserves of fossil fuels already than can be burned while staying within agreed climate limits.

Likewise, Hawaii has plenty of biomass resources that could potentially be used in many different ways, which is especially great news for a place with no indigenous fossil fuel reserves.

The authors do not mention that the estimated CO2 / CH4 release that led to the PETM was several orders of magnitude greater than all the carbon in all the combined fossil fuel reserves of our planet today, yet the authors state:

Carbon dioxide emissions associated with burning coal are the greatest of any fossil fuel, and coal has the highest carbon content among all unburned fossil fuel reserves.

To date, we have added about 1.5 trillion tons of CO2 from fossil fuel use (this is my recollection from papers by Meinshausen and others), and so by my very rough calculations, coal alone would permit us to contribute much more to atmospheric CO2 than we have already done, with a warming effect substantially greater than what we have already observed — and that is without counting oil and gas reserves.

The research underlying that concept showed that the carbon embedded in proven fossil fuel reserves on the books of fossil fuel companies is many times greater than what climate scientists have determined the atmosphere can withstand in a safe climate scenario.