Sentences with phrase «left by renewables»

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On the first floor, Ceal Floyer's wall of speakers blaring the engaged signal of a failed telephone call, Line Busy (UK)(2011), is both a minimal work of art and a note of restrained humour; Cory Arcangel's hacked computer game screens, MIG 29 Soviet Fighter Plane and Clouds (2005), could be either political statement or benign dreamscape; while Allora & Calzadilla's Solar Catastrophe (2012) is a hard - edged abstraction made from solar panels, as well as an ironic admission of the wreckage left behind by this renewable energy source.

This leaves us with a possible scenario in 10 years of majority renewables, via wind and solar, and the balance of the power for still nights or in remote locations taken care of by remnant oil and gas plants.

We can't burn fossil fuels they are too dirty, can't use renewable sources as they might effect tomorrow's spotted owl and anything left is owned by some whacked out dictator in the 3rd world.

I can not see much to be gained by just panic, and leave minerals in the ground, which would make renewable energy impossible.

Grassley said that the Senate is likely to take up an energy bill, perhaps including a renewable electricity standard, but not the controversial emissions reduction system approved last year by the House but left undone by the Senate.

The hole left by the failure of contracts - for - closure should be replaced with a new policy to close coal - fired power plants and replace them with renewable energy.

It's likely the first of many such deals by Claudia Cattaneo You know Canadian competitiveness is in big trouble when even investors in renewable energy — favoured by Canadian governments through subsidies, plus carbon taxes and regulatory overload on competing fossil - fuel energy — are leaving because they like lower U.S. taxes even more.

Jacobson's team and others cling to the idea of 100 - percent conversion because they (rightly) want to eliminate fossil and nuclear energy, and they foresee that any future supply gap left by a shortfall in renewable generation is going to be filled by those dirty sources.

It may be too late to prevent an ice - free Arctic in the summertime, but there is still time to avoid the worst consequences of rising temperatures by leaving fossil fuels underground and rapidly transitioning to an energy economy centered on renewables.

The fraction of fossil fuel without CCS is indicated by the horizontal lines to the right (diagonal) axis; the fraction of fossil fuel with CCS by diagonal lines from upper right to lower left on the vertical axis; the fraction of renewables and nuclear by the diagonal lines in the opposite direction to the left (diagonal) axis.

If up to two thirds of fossil fuels can not be burned, investors in these projects risk being left with up to $ 2 trillion in «stranded assets», investments rendered valueless by a combination of rapid technological progress from renewables, more stringent climate policies and shifts in market sentiment.

One option is to leave it alone for the next 30 years, at which point it will be replaced by renewable energy.

With this position the European Parliament picked up the slack left by EU governments who opted for subsidising coal plants and undermining market access for renewables.

The EU Platform for Coal Regions in Transition was launched by the European Commission in December last year to support Member States and regions as they shift away from coal towards renewable energy, in order to «leave no region behind».

That leaves 42 % of the overall reduction to come from more renewables, more nuclear, and by the wide - scale introduction of carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Clinton responded by promoting hydraulic fracturing («fracking») for oil and gas as a «bridge» to renewable fuels while also citing climate change as a «serious problem» and that she wants «to make sure we don't leave people behind.»