Sentences with phrase «mix of alternative energy»

In upcoming parts of this review, I'll describe the other elements of Monbiot's solution in more detail: Improving home energy efficiency, optimizing the mix of alternative energy sources, improving the transportation system, reducing our «air miles», and improving the retail and cement industries.

Through a mix of alternative energy vehicles and public transit, denser urban landscapes, and ride share services, Philadelphia can cut emissions while still providing reliable and affordable transit services.

Not exact matches

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Although John Edwards was a stalwart in opposing nuke power, Obama believes that it will likely have a role to play in any mixed bag of alternatives aimed at replacing oil - based energy.

The solutions have to be some mix of alternative renewable energy, smaller population, and steady state growth and better controls on polluting activities.

We will always need some level of hydrocarbon in our energy mix, but until we find alternatives to Oil we will be hostages to the big producers with the result of unstable geo - politics, conflicts, authoritarian regiemes and human suffering.

But the substantial support that Murkowski's proposal attracted highlights the political obstacles looming in front of any policy that aims to seriously advance alternatives to the carbon - intensive fossil fuels that now dominate the United States» energy mix.

Renewables and alternatives will all play a role, but even if those forms of energy grow by orders of magnitude over say the next fifty years, traditional hydrocarbons — oil and gas — will still make up the majority of the energy mix for at least the next century.

Jacobson was specifically attempting to exclude nuclear power from the energy mix, which is one of the reasons he got pushback from some of the saner environmentalists who accept nuclear as the only remotely viable alternative to fossil fuels.

As energy guru Daniel Yergin noted, wind energy isn't an «alternative» energy source anymore because there are now over 45,000 megawatts of installed wind capacity, providing three percent of our energy mix.

US energy needs will always require a mix of fossil, future and alternative fuels.

The $ 45 million a year campaign positions coal as an indispensable component of the nation's energy mix — one that keeps electricity affordable because it is so much cheaper than alternatives.

Hydropwer accounts for the overwhelming share of China's alternative energy mix, but is perhaps also the one of the more controversial alternative energy options due to the ecological and social impacts of dam construction.

In Oregon and Washington, for example, state RPS policies limit the cost of compliance to a 4 percent increase over an alternative, fossil fueled energy mix.