Sentences with phrase «need for fossil fuels»

Given our current and future need for fossil fuels, there's plenty of money for suppliers.

«Capturing carbon from the air and utilising it for industrial processes is one strategy for controlling CO2 emissions and reducing the need for fossil fuels,» says University of Adelaide PhD candidate Renata Lippi, first author of the research published online ahead of print in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

The payoff, he adds, is that 10 - hour storage eliminates the need for a fossil fuel power plant to back up electricity production on cloudy days and at peak usage hours in the evening.

This would send more solar electricity into the grid — which, in turn, should further cut the need for fossil fuels.

For one, it does not completely eliminate the need for fossil fuels, because the associated electric generators use natural gas to supplement the energy from the stored compressed air.

Even without a handy hot spot, the ground can be tapped to reduce our need for fossil fuels.

While that sounds like a good thing — it does, in fact, reduce the need for fossil fuels — in sum, it takes more energy to collect the food waste and process it than it would if people didn't throw away so much potentially edible food unnecessarily, Hamilton and her colleagues found.

A foreward by actor Robert Redford says: «Sheri Koone's books have inspired professionals and homeowners to consider using prefabrication methods that reduce waste, inherently conserve energy and limit the need for fossil fuel....

Protecting soil with cover crops, minimizing tillage, and periodic use of composts (including human wastes where possible) not only starts this long sequestration process, it reduces the need for fossil fuel based fertilizers, and helps make soils productive even during low - rain years.

They are reluctant to explain what is actually needed to phase out our need for fossil fuels.

The urgent need is for an emergency changeover, in less than a decade, from burning fuel, to widespread use of new sources of energy that eliminate the need for fossil fuels.

Since these electric devices can all be charged by large solar and wind arrays, there's no need for fossil fuels anywhere in the process (for example, the first such «solar breeder» proposals for solar panel factories powered by solar panels date back to 1978 or so.)

As renewable energy technology is deployed in our state and our nation, it is reducing the need for fossil fuels.

The biggest opportunity for savings is the carbon dioxide emissions standard for existing power plants (EPA's Clean Power Plan), as customer efficiency cuts the need for fossil fuel power plants and thus cuts their emissions.

Swiss technology group to help reduce the island's need for fossil fuels and lower its carbon footprint

If enacted, backers say the bills would drive growth for renewables, battery storage and demand management, as well as help the state reduce the need for fossil fuel peaker plants.

The other false lures were of reduced greenhouse gases, cost effectiveness, and the elimination of the need for fossil fuels.

But he overlooks the fact that an entirely nuclear - powered society would be far preferable to a partially nuclear - powered one, as it would have no need for fossil fuels or large, wasteful, and unreliable solar or wind farms.

It is the responsibility of architects, Mazria believes, «to engage the environment in a way that significantly reduces or eliminates the need for fossil fuels.»

That way they can be herded to where they need to go without the need for fossil fuels.

A foreward by actor Robert Redford says: «Sheri Koone's books have inspired professionals and homeowners to consider using prefabrication methods that reduce waste, inherently conserve energy and limit the need for fossil fuel....