Sentences with phrase «industry as a bridge fuel»
The coal industry acknowledges that developing carbon capture and storage technology is imperative for the survival of their industry as a bridge fuel, but many major players continue to duck behind these trumped up charges while avoiding serious discussion of the environmental impacts of burning coal.
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Its only hope for salvation is the new Cuomo administration policy that would effectively use nuclear as a bridge fuel while the state expands its renewable industry.
A strong ethical case can be made that any political support for natural gas as a short - term bridge fuel should be conditioned on the natural gas industry promising to stop lobbying against rapid scale up of renewable energy programs.
One key element of this latter program will be to try to forge a new coalition between industry and environmental groups for the use of cleanly - produced natural gas as a bridging fuel to slow global warming over the next few decades — with a particular focus on China.
Gas's success as a bridge fuel crucially hinges on the degree to which it is recognized as such by policy makers, energy planners and industry.
Wirth has touted the natural gas from shale as a «game - changer» that could help address global warming, but he says the industry's inadequate response to land and water concerns have imperiled the fuel's future as a bridge to a low - carbon future.