Sentences with phrase «longer use fossil»

And weâ $ ™ re not going to suddenly turn off a switch and suddenly weâ $ ™ re no longer using fossil fuels, but we have to use this time wisely, so that you have a tapering off of fossil fuels replaced by clean energy sources that are not releasing carbon.

Not exact matches

Plus, humans could had ridden camels alone without cargo long before using them for cargo, where a human weight alone is a much lighter load than with cargo, that it might not show load stress in previous fossils, let alone that those projected camels are only the known ones by archeologists.

If you've got it, flaunt it — and your hair will remain perfect until the excess energy you used powering two hair dryers will hasten the world's expenditure of fossil fuels to the point where we can no longer afford the electricity to power hair dryers, and instead resort into walking into darkened caves full of bats and allowing the collective heat of their tiny nocturnal bodies to hasten the evaporation of our surplus hair water.

The technical advantage is that local generation eliminates the enormous losses of wasted heat and long transmission that consume more than half the energy used in electricity generation by fossil fuels or nuclear.

As fossil fuels have a finite quantity, the costs of using it tend to increase as we get to the point where it is no longer easily available.

If we could pull carbon out of the air and use it to wean cars off fossil fuels, that would go a long way toward reducing humankind's production of greenhouse gases without impeding technological progress.

Scientists have long used CT scans to peek inside fossil - bearing rocks, but the increasing use of 3D printers now enables them to make endless numbers of exact copies of those relics.

«We know that fossil - fuel use is not sustainable in the long run,» Dukes says.

The use of alcohol as a fuel for internal combustion engines, either alone or in combination with other fuels, has been given much attention mostly because of its possible environmental and long - term economical advantages over fossil fuel.

Properly situated, vertical farms could eliminate the need for long - distance crop transport and refrigeration, reducing fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions.

«We have long suspected that there was a connection between throat structures used for air breathing and middle - ear structures used for hearing,» says Jennifer Clack of the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge, England, who has studied related fossils.

They used the fossil record to date branches of the tree and work out just how long it took for dinosaurs» bodies to change.

There are several reasons for this: the contraction of energy - intensive heavy industries, such as iron and steel; the long - term malaise in the national economy; the modest move away from burning fossil fuels that produce carbon dioxide towards nuclear energy; and the increasingly efficient use of energy evident in most of the economies of the rich world.

«Fossils from classic areas in North America and Europe have been studied for over a century, but there are long - standing questions about how different animal groups dispersed to other areas that we can't answer using just those fossils,» said AngiFossils from classic areas in North America and Europe have been studied for over a century, but there are long - standing questions about how different animal groups dispersed to other areas that we can't answer using just those fossils,» said Angifossils,» said Angielczyk.

No matter how you look at it, I think there's only one long - term solution: to stop using carbon as a source of energy, to switch away from using fossil fuels.

Generating a maximum of 32 - megawatts, it can produce enough energy to power up to 4,500 Long Island homes without the use of fossil fuels.

Early hominin stature reconstructions are notoriously difficult to assess: the limited number of intact long bones available in the fossil record often requires reconstruction of the long bone length from fragmentary remains, before different methods can be used to estimate the stature; the eventual results can differ according to the method employed.

Airplanes, ships and long - distance trains can't be plugged into an outlet, but hydrogen energy could be used to produce liquid fossil fuels, Lewis said.

Moreover, anthropogenic forcing from increased greenhouse gases might outweigh orbital forcing for as long as intensive use of fossil fuels continues [9].

How will we manage our resources for instance, if we use up most of our fossil fuels and can't ship food across the country any longer?

As a result one long - standing criticism of renewable energy may no longer apply, namely that mandating increased use of renewable energy for electricity generation will be more costly in the long run than sticking with fossil fuel energy.

ALL of the political interference has been on the side of the deniers, and that interference is driven by those with a huge financial stake in prolonging the use of fossil fuels as long as possible.

Every element in the complex, beautiful illustrations supports the informative text, which offers a welcome, long - term perspective on the subject: how fossil fuels formed millions of years ago and how their use affects the planet today.

The bigger problems of fossil fuel use are continuing and a long term effort to replace that is beset with all kinds of problems that are a combination of corporate interests, mindset, and science, coupled with the will to get it together.

Well, I just picked it; longest period when someone alive today could have benefited from their country's use of fossil fuels and within the time that most of any additional CO2 would still have an effect.

It also includes longer term plans to stop their existing high volume fossil fuel use from ~ mid-century.

As long as fossil fuels wind up being abandoned, it doesn't matter how it happens, and it's probably more effective to use humor and economics against the pro-fossil-fuel crowd (oil & coal industries).

But the story includes ample hints that such a focus may be tough to sustain given how costly the non-polluting energy technologies remain compared to fossil options, at least if energy costs are measured using conventional economic yardsticks that don't include long - term costs.

A carbon fee + dividend scheme such as suggested by James Hansen would not only go a long way to «curb massively the fossil fuel use», but it would also have the added beneficial effects of slightly redistributing income, improving public health, stimulating the economy and greatly accelerating the inevitable transition to renewable energy.

In theory, change can come through a mix of a) increasing public will to shift behavior and priorities for the sake of cutting a long - term risk and b) lowering the cost difference between non-polluting energy choices and conventional use of fossil fuels.

Rather, the best type of candidate might be the one who will be able to avoid corruption, graft, and ploys for personal power, while being able to simultaneously write solid, long - term legislation that rewards new energy ideas that can result in the reduction of CO2 emissions, while also writing legislation that provides for adequate nuclear energy and fossil energy to be developed and used for the near term without punishment.

Over all, Obama's choices reflect his longstanding pattern of charting a pragmatic path reflecting the need for strong regulation, including of greenhouse gases (embodied in McCarthy), and the simultaneous need to advance responsible use of cleaner fossil fuels while also using policies and investments to advance non-polluting energy technologies for the long haul.

Using fossils from all over the world, Marcott presents the longest continuous record of Earth's average temperature.

This technology continues to develop, and there are now some boats that can go on long - range trips without using any harmful fossil fuels.

A study using data taken from fossils and ice cores finds that long - term temperature variability decreased four-fold from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) around 21,000 years ago to the start of the Holocene around 11,500 years ago.

And by the time the next 100 years passes, humanity will no longer be using fossil fuels as the primary source of energy.

But with fossil fuels, the issue is no longer just about siting, choosing among sources carefully, or mitigating impacts after the fact; we must stop expanding their use immediately and categorically, and transition away from them over time.

The production of food and fibre; the urbanization of once agricultural or forested lands; and the sequestration of that portion of carbon emissions from fossil fuels that is not already absorbed by oceans or by long - term sequestration strategies in agriculture or forestry, all constitute competing or non-overlapping uses of ecosystems.

It introduces a fuel switch project that reduces fossil fuel use and brings additional benefits, such as the long - term sustainability of the local paper mill and economic improvement in the area where the project is located.

Indeed, as I argue in this article, I think it will be absolutely essential that we shift much of our current wasteful fossil fuel use (e.g., shipping the same goods back and forth across the ocean, driving gas - powered private automobiles, and producing disposable consumer goods) toward building new infrastructure for long - term resilience (e.g., local food economies, low - energy housing, greenspace, water catchment and storage, clean energy systems, trains, and, yes, wind - powered sea vessels!).

During Roman times, it was warmer, long before expanded fossil fuel use revolutionised civilisation.

In fact it may be a reason not to be overly concerned about China - they must be well aware that at the rate they keep using up more and more fossil fuels, they are going to get to a point where they're not longer cheap and easily available very quickly.

About 24 years — that's how long it will take for humans to burn enough fossil fuels and emit enough carbon (at current and projected rates) to use up that «carbon budget.»

Like the 28 governors and numerous environmental groups currently scrambling to extend wind power subsidies, I long assumed that wind turbines and solar cells offset fossil fuel use.

Let's make sure the focus remains on reducing fossil fuel use through near - term mass production — not on long - term R&D that makes the perfect the enemy of the good and could be an excuse to postpone commercialization.»

I believed the share of the target that needed to be achieved from fossil fuel use could be achieved by nuclear power largely replacing coal for electricity generation and natural gas largely replacing petrol and diesel for land transport (including buses, long haul transport and cars).

Yes, and that's where this thing ends up with a weirder problem courtesy of the same Ozone Action place where Gelbspan and their people simultaneously somehow «obtained» the documents which have long been used to accuse skeptic climate scientists of accepting fossil fuel industry bribes in exchange for lying to the public about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming.

Yet in many ways, fossil fuels are even trickier to confront, because it has long seemed that our very lives and prosperity depend on the continued use of these sources of energy.

If the goal is to reduce fossil fuel use over a period of 50 - 100 years, then spending too much too soon is probably counter-productive in the long run, and the best approach is slowly to introduce wind and solar and hydro and nuclear as the technologies are continually improved.

the 2007 Arctic sea - ice record low was a record low only for a 30 - year period, NOT unusual when looking at the longer record that shows the decline really started in the 1860's, BEFORE widespread fossil fuel use.