Sentences with phrase «old fossil fuel»

However, if there were a carbon tax the situation might be quite different, and it could well be some old fossil fuel burner getting shut down — a far more agreeable outcome.

It is the same old fossil fuel infrastructure that poses serious threats to the earth's climate and local environments.

This is also something that people underestimate, is the important complexities in turning an old fossil fuel - based grid into a 100 % renewable one.

I would agree 100 % that building nuclear power plants using today's best technology to cover a majority of future electrical energy needs or to replace old fossil fuel plants that are being decommissioned anyway makes sense.

Old fossil fuel - based plants are being shut down while alternative technologies such as rooftop solar are increasingly being taken up, leading to further rifts in the wider energy sector.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to unveil its plan for old fossil fuel plants in June, after more than a year of working on the issue with states, industry groups, and environmentalists.

Not exact matches

Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from old - fashioned air pollution, generated by electric power plants that burn fossil fuels.

Canada may be known as an old - guard, fossil - fuel powerhouse, but over the past few years it quietly has been hedging its bets.

Those clinging to the old ways may find themselves stranded, just like fossil fuel assets.

My 11 - year - old self would never have believed that 50 years later our governments would be continuing to prop up the extraction and export of fossil fuels, rather than leaping to embrace the green future that awaited us.

With new, eco-friendly technologies waiting to replace old - school nuclear or fossil - fuel turbines like this one, the energy industry is going to drastically change... eventually.

The 72 - year - old has also been arrested five times in protests against the continued burning of fossil fuels or to demand that the United States put a price on carbon emissions.

The old way of doing business, with big centralized power companies and industries that are totally reliant on fossil fuels, is over, he says.

Now, some of France's reactors are showing wrinkles — France's oldest reactor, Fessenheim 1, started operations in 1977 — and officials need to decide whether to invest in costly safety upgrades to keep them operating or to decommission them, another expensive prospect that leaves open the possibility that fossil fuels may rise to meet the shortfall.

«As many plants as there are, it's not enough,» Kelly adds, noting that older, fossil fuel — fired plants would have to be shut down in order for renewables to make up the required percentage.

Fossil fuel emissions could soon make it impossible for radiocarbon dating to distinguish new materials from artefacts that are hundreds of years old.

If fossil fuel emissions were rapidly curbed, the new t - shirt would only have the same radiocarbon age as something 100 years old, according to the study.

The burning of fossil fuels is altering the ratio of carbon in the atmosphere, which may cause objects tested in the coming decades to seem hundreds or thousands of years older than they actually are, according a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

This is good news for all the futurists who have been telling us about a forthcoming change from nasty, old carbon - based fossil fuels to an energy economy based on clean - burning hydrogen.

Thank you George (posting 25)-- this is considerably more insightful than the old chestnut «all the contrarians are in the pay of the fossil fuel industry».

I mean: what am I supposed to say to my thirteen - year - old daughter about the ever - growing supply of fossil fuels?

As news spread over the weekend of the death of George P. Mitchell, the 94 - year - old Texas oil man widely credited with playing a pivotal role in unlocking the shale energy era, I reached out for a reaction from Daniel Yergin, the Pulitzer - winning chronicler of humanity's fossil fuel era.

And these old myths will pop up as long as the fossil fuel industry will exist.

The new CO2 in the air is not coming from the biosphere, since it is deficient in carbon - 14 — i.e., it is very old, as in fossil fuel.

And as the English have done and as the Chinese and the Indians and etc will still do, they will use coal, lots of coal plus gas and oil for power generation until some capitalist somewhere with a very good idea on how to reduce costs and still make a fortune comes along and devises / discovers or restructures an old technology or a new power generation technology that is more efficient, lower cost, more profitable, just as reliable as fossil fueled, those coal, oil and gas generators

Hate to burst your bubble, well maybe not, but ethanol, solar, wind are all old technologies that haven't come close to the efficiency of fossil fuels.

Replacing old slowly growing forest by young rapidly growing one is useful only if the old trees are either stored so that they will not release their carbon back to atmosphere or used to replace fossil fuels or materials, whose manufacturing causes CO2 emissions.

As energy is the underpinning of a society, the unravelling of the fossil fuel system signifies the demise of the old paradigm.

In June 2016, APS filed for a $ 3.6 billion rate increase (Docket E-01345A-16-0036) to go into effect July 2017, including higher fixed charges, new demand charges for solar customers, lowering the rate paid for distributed solar from the retail rate (12 - 13 cents / kWh) to wholesale rate (3 cents / kWh), and spending billions of dollars to introduce fossil fuel plants, including one of the Western U.S.'s oldest and dirtiest coal plants, into rate base.

The debate goes beyond the old battle line between renewable energy and fossil fuels and highlights the value of of nimble power sources, like microgrids and distributed energy resources.

19 - year - old Kelsey Juliana tells Climate Home why she is taking on the government and fossil fuel interests

Here at Climate Reality, we've been having a similar thought hearing senators and media pundits rehearse the tired old claim that switching from fossil fuels to clean energy would be economic suicide: «Wait, people still believe that?»

While older GOPers — Gen X and baby boomers — are unlikely to say that climate change is having an effect on the U.S., and are likely to support the expanded use of fossil fuels, their younger counterparts largely disagree.

At its root is a century - old lie: market prices for gasoline and other fossil fuels that do not factor in the damage from burning them.

But in a case study of the power of fossil fuel interests to shape government policy, the industry's money and alliances with conservative think tanks and advocacy groups transformed the committee's membership and supported the rise of Smith, son of an old oil and ranching family in South Texas.

The older generation is now burning the fossil fuels, getting the benefits, and wittingly leaving a mess for young people to try to clean up.

Government giveaways in the form of permanent tax breaks to the fossil fuel industry — one of which is over a century old — are seven times larger than those to the renewable energy sector.

If you share a fundamental moral outrage over this absurdity, join us this summer and beyond as we use organizing, NVDA, divestment campaigns, and transformative pilot projects to stop new fossil fuel projects, shut down old ones, and build our future at the human scale, with human values, instead.

At the latest ECS estimates of around 1.5 °C, this could lead to 2 °C warming; at the old IPCC estimate of around 3 °C, this could lead to 4 °C warming — both as an asymptotic maximum ever attainable if and when all fossil fuels are 100 % used up some 200 - 300 years from now.

He also pointed out that the research itself is pretty old now, and so even if the fossil fuel parts could be identified from the rest of the «perverse subsidies» — it wouldn't be very up to date.

However, Kelly Sims Gallagher is not merely a coincidentally handy local Tufts University professor, she has direct connections with the same set of leaked industry memo phrases seen within the growing numbers of California global warming lawsuits — the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» strategy phrase and the «older, less - educated males» / «younger, lower - income women» targeting phrases — which are widely repeated elsewhere as proof that the fossil fuel industry «pays skeptic climate scientists to participate in misinformation campaigns» undermining the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming (despite those memos being worthless as evidence, but that is another matter).

Policies to ban logging on old growth forsts, end fossil fuel subsidies and ban all new export coal mines (including Adani) are outlined here under «ENVIRONMENT»: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au / policies

Dig deep enough in the «crooked skeptics» accusation, and you ultimately discover that in regard to the notion about skeptics being in a pay - for - performance arrangement with anybody in the fossil fuel industry, there's only one usable weapon in the enviro - activists» arsenal to indict those skeptics as industry - paid shills: the supposedly leaked industry memo set from a public relations campaign called the «Information Council for the Environment» (ICE) supposedly containing the «reposition global warming» strategy goal, which targeted «older, less - educated males» and «younger, lower - income women.»

On the other hand, the study warns that renewable energy, if implemented within the same «old» geopolitical paradigm of the fossil fuel era, might not prevent further deterioration of environmental stability and international security.

Forget the #ExxonKnew effort to re-invigorate the otherwise 25 year - old accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid corrupting money by fossil fuel companies to lie to the public about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming.

The point here is not that Gelbspan appears to have put out misinformation about his collective work back in 2004, it is that his words have huge influence right up to the present time, such as the only months - old «fossil fuel industry misinformation» research paper written by an impressionable young college student, or the days - old suggestion by one of his Facebook Friends that he should get a guest appearance on CNBC's Rachel Maddow show.

Remembering that this article and research are almost a decade old it is interesting to note that most individuals are unaware of PEF today as that renewable resource since the fossil fuel industry has not embraced it to date.

You can not get it from old matter, fossil fuels, volanoes or any other way.

New fossil - fuelled and nuclear power plants already are more costly than older ones, mainly because they have to be compliant with higher environmental and safety standards.

Fossil fuels and solid biofuels kill 4 - 7 million people prematurely worldwide each year, primarily in developing countries, and 20 % of the mortalities are children under the age of 5 years old.