Sentences with phrase «on alternative energy technologies»

In South Dakota, Referred Law 14 would tap a portion of the taxes collected from contractors to provide grants for in - state projects costing more than $ 5 million, including research on alternative energy technologies and improving agricultural practices.

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I also found the speeches by Louise Fresco on the scholar day regarding her own career path, Cedric Simon about alternative sources of fish feed and Bernadette McCabe about waste - to - energy technologies to be particularly memorable.

Which wise government spending (see: investment in technology and other productivity - enhancing measures) can help that last bit, which is one reason I'm all in favor of spending on alternative energy research (I'm a little sick of sending hundreds of billions of dollars per year overseas for hydrocarbons; I'd rather employ Americans to maintain windfarms, solar plants, not - on - the - table - now - but - maybe - soon thorium reactors, etc.).

Congressman Steve Israel said: «If we are going to end our dependence on foreign oil once and for all, we need to make a commitment to using alternative energy technologies.

Mulvaney suggested such proposed cuts reflect the fact that those activities «don't align with the president's position on global warming and alternative energy» technologies.

ARPA - E, the U.S. government agency for funding innovative energy technologies, is preparing to launch a program to support alternative approaches to fusion energy that have the potential to steal a march on existing mainstream projects.

Keeping in mind the enormous stake that panel members ExxonMobil and Shell have in the oil, natural gas and coal industries, here is a look at the panel's take on why oil and coal have been so difficult to replace by the following alternative energy sources: Natural gas ExxonMobil favors boosting the U.S.'s consumption of natural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during the panel.

Although the United States still spends more in the sectors that depend most on R&D (pharma, biotech, and information and communication technology), Europe is leading in the up - and - coming alternative energy sector.

Strategies to meet the goal would vary by country and largely rely on advanced technology such as capturing the carbon dioxide spewed by coal - burning power plants; the Bush vision also foresees gasoline alternatives, nuclear power and an international clean technology fund to promote research into carbon - free energy sources.

Calling fossil fuels an antiquated technology, like whale oil, Mann points out that alternative energy is growing even without subsidies or a price on carbon.

His professional career in alternative energy research has spanned more than 25 years, centering on development of solar energy conversion devices and on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

There are also important wider issues such as developing alternative materials, and materials recovery techniques, to reduce the dependence of solar and other energy technologies on critical raw materials or on high energy manufacturing processes.

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The Centre for Alternative Technology has developed a series of practical and theoretical activities and support packs on environmental issues, biodiversity, energy and sustainability for use across the curriculum at all levels.

It is focusing its efforts on five areas aimed at reducing fuel consumption and emissions: vehicle energy use (weight, aerodynamics, and rolling resistance); engines; transmissions; axles and drivelines; and hybrid propulsion and alternative fuel technologies.

Pickens has been (but not any more due to strides in technology have altered the energy landscape) outspoken on the issue of peak oil, and advocates alternative and renewable energy sources such as solar and wind.

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And that's because ALTERNATIVE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES RELY ON FOSSIL FUELS THROUGH EVERY STAGE OF THEIR LIFE.

If we have some time to prepare, the combination of lowering all the discussed emissions, utilizing current technology to implement alternative energy sources, and engineering new twists on said technology to both continue lowering emissions and adapting to global climate changes as well, we may be able to guide our response sets to outside, artificial selective pressures in conjunction with natural ones; natural, internal variability and external forcings / feedbacks.

Mindful of the important role of a range of alternative energy technologies, we recognize, in particular, the need for research, development, and large - scale demonstration of and cooperation on carbon capture and storage.

«The morality play on offer from greenies and their media buddies holds that «we can't drill our way» to cheaper oil prices, but «conservation» and «new technologies» for «alternative energy» are the answer.»

That challenge has been largely ignored, with the policy focus placed on emissions and emissions reduction and the political will to reduce them, without due regard to the current limits on alternative low carbon energy technologies.

Old Timers like me had to rely on «Mother Earth News» or «Popular Science» and «Popular Mechanics» or «Science and Mechanics» as our bibles for the exploration of alternative energy systems and technology.

And there is no way we can ramp up even the best alternative energy technology to replace oil or coal in anything like the time needed to have an impact on CO2 emissions.

If most of this investment were focused on alternative energy and new technologies (e.g., better solar collectors using carbon nanonets as one example), this could be the basis for a huge industry in which the USA could be a world leader.

We can put emphasis on developing new technologies (including CCS, alternative energy sources, and etc.) that will help our companies and economy stay competitive, and we can sell those clean technologies to other folks.

The California Energy Commission's Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) and Federal Stimulus Program (Ad Hoc) Committees will conduct a joint workshop to discuss clean technology innovation efforts funded through U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) competitive solicitations with a focus on projects receiving cost - share funding from the Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research and Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technologytechnology innovation efforts funded through U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) competitive solicitations with a focus on projects receiving cost - share funding from the Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research and Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle TechnologyTechnology Programs.

Such policies should promote the use of non-combustion renewable energy, low carbon fuels (measured on a lifecycle basis), expanded transmission and smart grid technologies, alternative forms of transportation, and energy storage.

On the other hand; alternative energy sources are considered green energy technology since they don't produce natural gases that affects the global temperatures.

Educate industry, government, and the general public on the importance and viability of establishing alternative sources of energy production and advanced geothermal technologies, and the impacts on the environment and climate change of various forms of energy production.

In addition to his opposition to meaningful action to reduce global warming pollution, Paul Ryan's budget called for «drastic cuts in federal spending on energy research and development and for the outright elimination of subsidies and tax breaks for wind, solar power and other alternative energy technologies.»

First of all there was EU Energy Commissioner saying that completely decarboning the energy grid by 2050 would be no more expensive than BAU, based on the declining cost of renewable technologies and efficiency measures, and the rising cost of the fossil alternaEnergy Commissioner saying that completely decarboning the energy grid by 2050 would be no more expensive than BAU, based on the declining cost of renewable technologies and efficiency measures, and the rising cost of the fossil alternaenergy grid by 2050 would be no more expensive than BAU, based on the declining cost of renewable technologies and efficiency measures, and the rising cost of the fossil alternatives.

The environmental threats and economic costs of continued reliance on fossil fuel technologies are sufficiently urgent to warrant substantially larger public support in the form of private - sector R&D incentives and a refocusing of effort by the national energy laboratories on the development and diffusion of alternative energy technologies.

As green energy proposals have stated for years, the future job market depends on developing these alternative technologies or «cleantech».

It portrays recent experiences in Spain and the US showing that CST could become a key renewable energy technology that is able to provide an alternative to conventional thermal power generation based on the central utility model.

Compared to the average person, I was fairly well informed about the latest trends and advances in renewable energy... I still had only a cursory idea of where and how the energy we consumed in our house and on the road was produced... I didn't have a clear sense of the big picture, of how — or if — the dozens of alternative energy technologies we hear so much about every day really added up to something new and viable.

In order to ensure that lesser - developed countries have the capability to develop without relying on high - carbon technologies, the G8 nations and other industrialized countries led by the United States should seek to transfer to poorer countries the tools to drive their development along an alternative, clean energy path.

Based on country interviews it considers identified priority areas like capacity building for policy makers, training, HFC alternatives technology, energy efficiency, public private partnerships, and gender balance and inclusion of women and youth in the growing refrigeration and air conditioning sector.

One organization he belongs to, the Energy Future Coalition, shot off a letter last month to Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, calling for a federal investment in alternative fuels and advanced automobile technology.

Addressing newsmen here on Friday, president of the Institute of Engineers India G Prabhakaran, said, «The conclave will have a technical exhibition and numerous interactive sessions focusing on facilitating easier technology transfer and improved awareness on alternative energy resources.»

On April 2, 2008, Enterprise Florida, Inc., the state's economic development organization, selected Renergie as one of Florida's most innovative technology companies in the alternative energy sector.

A rollercoaster enthusiast who traveled to India to study tribal women's empowerment; an energy analyst interested in the impacts of innovation on geopolitics; an engineer who has worked on alternative transportation and urban development; and a former scholar of the Victorian era who now writes on energy technologies and risk perception.

Via Mercury News More on Alternative Energy China's Largest Solar Panel Maker Expect Sales to Climb 20 % in 2011 We Could Have 10 MW Wind Turbines by 2011 and 15 MW Turbines by 2020 U.S. Needs to Boost Spending for Energy R&D;, Panel Tells Obama Some U.S. Utilities Starting to Replace Coal with Natural Gas Steven Chu: China Giving U.S. a Clean Technology «Sputnik Moment» iSuppli Forecasts 15.8 GW of Solar PV in 2010, 19.3 GW in 2011 South - Korea to Invest $ 8.2 B In Massive Offshore Wind Farms Stirling Engine Made with Soda Cans Spins to 860 RPM (Video)

A long - term Republican budget plan released this week by Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin calls for drastic cuts in federal spending on energy research and development and for the outright elimination of subsidies and tax breaks for wind, solar power and other alternative energy technologies.

As one of Europe's leading renewable energy education centers, the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) has featured regularly on TreeHugger.

As in other energy - related issues, I think the best approach in the long run will be to continue to research, invent, and develop as many alternative storage technologies as we can, and not bet too soon on which exactly will be cheapest and most reliable 20 years from now.

To place the various alternatives on an equal footing, Jacobson first made his comparisons among the energy sources by calculating the impacts as if each alternative alone were used to power all the vehicles in the United States, assuming only «new - technology» vehicles were being used.

In the meantime because society is not resilient to current extreme weather I think that in addition to funding research for cheaper fossil fuel alternatives we should be spending money on adapting to extreme weather rather than subsidizing any current technology renewable energy.

In 2010, Breakthrough coauthored the influential Hartwell Paper, proposing an alternative international approach to climate change focused on efforts that would accelerate adaptation to climate change and technology innovation to make clean energy cheap and accessible around the planet.

Take ConocoPhillips, which highlights its «emerging technologies and alternative energy sources» activities on its website — but fails to mention that in April 2012 it divested all of these activities to focus exclusively on its «core business» of exploring for and producing oil and natural gas, and specifically to take advantage of the North American «shale revolution» and tar sands production in Canada.