Sentences with phrase «intensive than the fossil fuel»

It concluded that, all in all, job impacts would be positive, in part because clean energy investments are more labor - intensive than fossil fuel investments.

Not exact matches

But fracking opponents claim that, though natural gas is considered the greenest of fossil fuels, shale extraction is significantly more carbon - intensive than conventional production and may result in the release of large quantities of methane, itself a greenhouse gas.

Although the small, labor - intensive factories here envisioned are far more efficient than individual producers, they can become still more efficient when they employ fossil fuel energy and enlarge their production.

[citation needed] Nevertheless, due to very capital intensive production, it is generally not thought that first generation cells will be able to provide energy more cost effective than fossil fuel sources.»

A recent report from the Brookings Institution concluded that «the domestic clean economy already employs some 2.7 million workers,» which is more than the fossil fuel industry.9 In addition, it noted that newer «cleantech» segments produced «explosive job gains» that «outperformed the nation during the recession» and that the clean economy is «manufacturing and export intensive.»

Mandates and subsidies for fossil - fuel intensive biofuels such as corn - derived ethanol are so large that eliminating or reducing them would almost certainly do more than a carbon tax to curb these fuels» artificial price advantage.

For countries everywhere, particularly developing ones, the economic good news is that the Plan B energy economy is much more labor - intensive than the fossil - fuel - based economy it is replacing.

It's quite okay to buy those carbon - intensive fuels, which speaks volumes about what's the real agenda here: protecting the interests of the fossil fuel industry, even though producing synthetic fuels using Nazi - era technology actually produces more carbon dioxide than burning petroleum itself.

In scientific literature a few comparisons between the SRES projections and reality exist, like a 2007 PNAS study, which stated «The emissions growth rate since 2000 was greater than for the most fossil - fuel intensive of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emissions scenarios developed in the late 1990s.»

Companies that produce, use and / or invest in fuels that are at least 50 % less carbon intensive than conventional fossil fuels can sign up to the approval process for joining below50.

Denmark, the world's most wind - intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19 % of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil - fuel plant.

On February 2nd, the University of Bristol confirmed in a public statement that, following their partial divestment pledge in 2017, they had completed the divestment of companies deriving more than 5 % of their income from «the most carbon intensive sectors of the fossil fuel industry».

Yes, desalinating sea water and pumping it overland to replace the water from the acquifers would be energy intensive and expensive, but the point is we could do it, and the cooling effect of irrigation claimed in the study above would far more than off set the emissions from fossil fuel used to accomplish the task.

Coal is a much more intensive emitter of CO2 than other fossil fuels.

«The underlying energy consumption trends that resulted in these changes — mainly because more electricity has been generated from natural gas than from other fossil fuels — have helped to lower the U.S. emissions level since 2005 because natural gas is a less carbon - intensive fuel than either coal or petroleum.»

Natural gas is less dirty than coal but it still locks Europe into an unsustainable, carbon intensive fossil fuel system.

Oil Change International issued a 2015 report that G20 governments provided more than $ 400 billion (360 billion euros) per year to fossil fuel production, including some of the world's most carbon - intensive and polluting ones.

However, while natural gas can be derived from anaerobic digesters or landfills, in Utah they are using the fossil fuel kind which, though finite, is at least cleaner burning and less carbon - intensive than regular gasoline.