Sentences with phrase «made by renewable»

Just in pure monetary terms the market forces opposing fossil fuel use reductions are much, MUCH greater than any gains that could be made by renewable power generation.

Not exact matches

The Conservatives have proposed that at least 5 % of gasoline should be made from renewable sources by 2010, while the level for diesel and heating will be 2 % by 2012.

Looking at the bigger picture, Anheuser - Busch's parent company, AB InBev, has made a commitment to securing 100 percent of its purchased electricity from renewable sources by the year 2025.

«To ignore market trends by impeding progress toward a cleaner energy future, on the basis of ignorance or ideology, makes no sense,» Nathanael Greene, director of renewable policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement.

While utilities have long discouraged energy storage by homeowners and industrial consumers because it threatens their revenue model, Brown says it makes a lot of sense, not just for enabling more renewable power but for lightening the load on old, creaky infrastructure.

By his estimates, renewables make up perhaps 7 % of the power grid, with natural gas and coal making up the remaining majority.

But among those states — the overwhelming majority of which swing conservative — a select few have made strides in renewable energy, recognizing that advances in green technology are often accompanied by cost savings.

Whether or not we realize it, researchers are coming up with new ways to create and use plastics that could benefit the plastics industry — as well as society and the environment — by reducing the costs of consumer goods, making renewable energy more available and reducing plastic waste.

And last but not least, the world's 43 most vulnerable countries adopted a push for 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050 — leading with a commitment that many rich and developed nations have yet to make.

The products on our shelves are made from renewable resources found in nature, and all products are deemed safe by the

The products on our shelves are made from renewable resources found in nature, and all products are deemed safe by the EWG.

We can improve the health of our environment just by Making the Switch to renewable energy, eating less beef, and taking a few other simple steps at home.

An eco-friendly foam and innerspring mattresses like the ones sold by Naturpedic tend to be made with fewer chemicals, plastics, and PVC (vinyl), and a greater percentage of renewable and sustainable materials, such as cotton, fast - growing bamboo, coir, plant - based foam, and natural latex (rubber from tree sap that's been injected with air).

Tesla started making its solar roofing tiles in Buffalo last month, meeting its goal to start shifting production by the end of 2017 to its South Park Avenue gigafactory of what it hopes will become a signature product for its renewable energy business.

We could make a bold commitment to invest in renewable energy, one that will get us off fossil fuels completely and provide tens of thousands of new jobs — especially in the communities most impacted by pollution and climate change.

«New Yorkers know too well the devastation caused by climate change, and in order to slow the effects of extreme weather and build our communities to be stronger and more resilient, we must make significant investments in renewable energy,» Cuomo said.

He urged all actors in the renewable energy sector to make their presence felt during renewable energy fair by sharing experience and creating the right synergies to propel the collective efforts in achieving the country's renewable energy medium - term target of 10 percent by 2020.

Stop hiding behind the façade that an arms trade treaty will make a difference; stop promoting arms sales to dictators; and transfer the support and subsidy enjoyed by the military companies to growing industries, such as the quest for renewable energy.

«The strategy to encourage charging at home during the night is entirely consistent with the campaign to reduce carbon emissions and, by providing additional night time load on the grid, will make it more attractive to invest in renewable energy technologies.

Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Cynthia Nixon said Friday she would make New York 100 percent reliant on renewable energy by 2050.

The projects are part of the state's Clean Energy Standard, which hopes to make 50 percent of the electricity used in New York come from renewable resources by 2030.

He has already announced a goal of having half of the state's power generated by renewable sources like wind and solar by 2030, and he has ordered state regulators to draw up rules to make that happen.

Hawkins cited a report by a team of engineers and economists led by Prof. Mark Jacobsen of Stanford that makes the case that 100 % renewable energy from wind, water, and solar sources by 2030 in New YorkState is technologically and economically feasible.

Colleagues describe her as capable and confident, but she was accused of misleading the public after a leaked letter revealed that the UK was predicted to fall short of its obligations to get 15 % of its energy from renewables by 2020, while the department was claiming that progress was being made toward that aim.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

Sanders is a prominent critic of efforts to expedite construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, while O'Malley has vowed to make a nationwide shift to renewable energy his top priority, with a full transition to clean - energy - powered generation by 2050.

Rogerson believes people increasingly want to use their money to help make the world a better place — by creating jobs in small start - ups and claiming the tax benefits that come with this, for instance, or helping to generate renewable energy.

Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, researchers from the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation developed a new chemical process to combine fatty acids from soybeans or coconut and sugar - derived rings from corn to make a renewable soap molecule called Oleo - Furan - Surfactant (OFS).

The potential feedstocks to be used by the company to make renewable jet fuel seemed unlimited.

Electrolyzers could effectively serve as energy storage by using that excess generation to make renewable hydrogen.

Negotiators at the Paris talks, which had not begun by press time, hope to figure out how to make that transition to renewables more affordable.

Using biogas produced by landfills or wastewater treatment plants is one way to make renewable hydrogen.

A team of researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has invented a new soap molecule made from renewable sources that could dramatically reduce the number of chemicals in cleaning products and their impact on the environment.

By tweaking the smallest units of life, scientists are making bigger gains in producing alternative and renewable energy, with recent efforts aimed at molecule - level controls and promoting fractal growth patterns to create different fuels and improve efficiencies.

In the late 1990s, Arthur Nozik of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, and the University of Colorado, Boulder, theorized that if the semiconductors were made out of nanoparticles, they could excite multiple electrons with less photon energy, because less of the incoming energy would be sapped by vibrating atoms in the crystalline lattice.

The banks made their pledges on renewable energy as part of a campaign called RE100, an effort organized by environmental advocacy groups to get leading companies to commit to shrinking their carbon footprints.

Similar emissions are caused by the iron, aluminum, and copper mines needed to produce material for renewable systems, Hertwich noted, but the massive scale of coal mining makes its emissions much more significant by comparison.

If the UK government caves into pressure and lowers its ambitions for onshore wind, it will make more expensive forms of low - carbon generation a necessity to hit the UK's target of producing 30 per cent of its electricity from renewables by 2020.

The improvements in the lithium - ion batteries offered by NREL's approach also can make a difference in portable consumer electronics, such as laptops, tablets, cell phones, and portable media, as well as the stationary energy storage devices that will become increasingly important as more variable - generation renewable energy enters the grid.

Now, Wyss Institute researchers led by Church have developed a new suite of such sensors, reported in Nucleic Acids Research journal, that not only increase the number of cellular «switches and levers» that scientists can use for complex genetic re-programming, but also respond to valuable products such as renewable plastics or costly pharmaceuticals and give microbes a voice to report on their own efficiency in making these products.

It's unlikely, without a legal system set up by Congress, that EPA will allow power plants to buy tradable certificates for renewable power, a step that could make lowering emissions more affordable.

«Our idea is to reduce the cost for making carbon fiber by using renewable materials, like biorefinery lignin.»

Most other technology developed for harvesting wave power — including Finavera Renewables's AquaBuOY, WaveBob Ltd.'s wave - absorbing buoy and another buoy - mounted generator made by SRI International — absorbs energy from riding the waves as they bob up and down.

By making more sophisticated use of that basic concept in a connected grid, and pairing it with more advanced forms of energy storage, the door could be opened for a much wider use of renewable energy systems, scientists say.

A new study released in the journal Energy and Environmental Science by MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory looks at factors driving cheap (er) Chinese made solar panels.

Europe's renewable energy targets drive demand for wood pellets Other voices in the forestry sector, including Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, said that wood - based energy is renewable because the wood burned is replaced by other trees that take in carbon dioxide, making the process carbon - neutral.

Although renewable energy is making good progress, large - scale power generation is still dominated by burning fuel, whether uranium or fossil carbon.

With the help of microbes, we could decrease our carbon footprint on the planet, by using renewable resources to make a lot of the fuels and chemicals we currently get from petroleum.

A project that has been in the making for four years and has involved contributions from countless numbers of dedicated people, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica station is the first polar research station designed to create zero carbon emissions by utilising a highly energy - efficient design and by running entirely on renewable wind and solar energies.

The opportunity to decarbonize was derailed by the antinukes who made sure the best tool we had, before renewables were any possibility, which could have been used to replace almost all fossil fuel usage in the 60s 70s and 80s when the Keeling curve was still in the low 300s, was kept from being used.