Sentences with phrase «other than fossil fuels»

The C14 deficit (referenced via tree samples back to pre-atomic bomb days) shows that the emitted carbon is very old (probably more than 50,000 years old given the 5600 year half life of C14), and that age is hard to attribute to something other than fossil fuels.

And in any case, there is no alternative at the moment to supplying reliable and cheap base load capacity with any sources other than fossil fuels and nuclear energy.

As the last major economy to submit a target for a global climate pact, India is pledging to reduce the intensity of its carbon emissions and boost the share of electricity produced from sources other than fossil fuels to...

In our video chat, he and the other authors acknowledged the challenge in gaining traction, even with such findings, given the deep - rooted human bias toward immediate gratification and the development and energy gaps that mean today's poorer nations have few affordable choices other than fossil fuels.

[Andy Revkin — They «recognize» and «promote» the importance of energy sources other than fossil fuels, but don't specify any steps to accelerate a transition to a renewable energy and away from unfettered combustion of coal and oil.

«According to a World Bank estimate, the total exports of the Arab world other than fossil fuels amount to less than those of Finland, a country of five million inhabitants,» observed Bernard Lewis.

http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/02/this-is-just-natural-cycle.html http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/04/its-sun-stupid.html There is no chance the CO2 rise is from anything other than fossil fuel burning, we know this from the isotope signatures of the actual CO2 molecules.

* we have few alternatives to baseline electric generation other than fossil fuel — with the exception of nukes, and events in Japan have shaken my confidence in them.

Not exact matches

The world added more solar power capacity than any other type of energy in 2017, outpacing all fossil fuels, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

More than anything else, fossil fuel has allowed us to stop being neighbors to each other, both literally — we move ever farther into ever emptier suburbs — and figuratively — we depend less and less on each other for anything real.

Cuomo has argued that nuclear power is cleaner than fossil fuels and is a needed bridge fuel during a transition to wind, solar and other renewable energy sources.

Governor Cuomo has argued that nuclear power is cleaner than fossil fuels, and is a needed bridge fuel during a transition to wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources.

Today more religious institutions around the world have pledged to some form of fossil fuel divestment than any other class of institution, said Harper.

A report in Nature stated that in some cases the escape of methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, «could effectively offset the environmental edge that natural gas is said to enjoy over other fossil fuels.»

Whilst methane - burning is cleaner that other fossil fuels, any methane not burnt and released in the emissions from the engine has a much greater warming effect than oil - based fuel.

This also means that other generators, such as those powered by fossil fuels, can scale their power output in advance rather than rapidly ramping up or slowing down to compensate for wind, increasing their efficiency and improving the grid's reliability.

Burning gas emits less carbon dioxide than burning other fossil fuels.

Moreover, in those cases, the gap between the leading - edge technologies and the competitors trying to catch up is on aggregate twice as great for the fossil - fuel firms than the clean - technology firms; that is, the dirty energy companies are generally farther ahead of the other firms in their fields.

While biofuels from crops, grasses, wood, agricultural residues and other materials emit less carbon than fossil fuels over a crop - to - vehicle life cycle, recent studies have questioned the availability of material to make fuels on a large scale.

Given the vastness of the world's marine methane hydrate deposits — more than twice the carbon reserves of all other fossil fuels combined — it's not surprising that government agencies and the petroleum and natural gas industries have long been interested in harvesting this new energy supply.

China's newly released five - year plan requires that China source 11.4 percent of its energy needs from other than fossil - fuel — at least 43 gigawatts of that to come from nuclear alone — up from slightly more than 8 percent now.

Health risks aside, natural gas may ultimately prove no cleaner than America's other abundant domestic fossil fuel, coal.

While fracking has become a focal point in conversations about methane emissions, it certainly appears from this and other studies that in the U.S., fossil fuel extraction activities across the board likely emit higher than inventory estimates.»

«She also serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, but again I have not seen clear signs of leadership on energy issues, other than a pattern of consistent votes in favor of fossil fuels and against taking action on climate change,» Squillace said.

That has resulted in water 30 percent more acidic than it was before factories, cars, planes and other fossil fuel - burning machines became widespread.

In that year, China's emissions totaled more than 7 billion tons, of which more than half came from fossil fuels burned to make goods and services that were consumed either in other parts of China, or beyond China's borders to 107 countries.

Why It Matters: Power plants that burn coal and other fossil fuels emit more than 40 percent of the nation's carbon dioxide.

As such the paper serves as a complement, rather than an alternative, to other methods of attributing climatic change to human activity (fossil fuel burning).

The diesel technology thus makes a greater contribution than any other type of engine to reducing the consumption of fossil fuels.

I doubt that politicians truely understand the problem at hand, it is not as if we have a new energy technology ready to fill in for fossil fusl at the present time and whilst I am sure than energy efficiency can reduce carbon emissions by around 25 % it will be left to the markets to decide this and that means awaiting the onset of peak fossil fuels to push up the price of it that will make other energy sources more viable.

We have been consuming natural capital far faster than it regenerates, whether it's fossil fuels, fish, forests, wetlands, or the capacity of the oceans and other sinks to take up greenhouse gases.

The gas has a long residence time in the atmosphere so that it builds as long as more is added than comes out through absorption in the ocean or ecosystems (unlike most other emissions from burning fossil fuels, forests, and the like, which dissipate quickly.)

Once lauded as the future of clean transportation and energy storage in a variety of other applications, hydrogen - based fuel cell systems have a great many barriers to adoption, one of which is lack of hydrogen infrastructure, and the other is the need to develop hydrogen production sources that aren't fossil fuel - based or that require more energy to produce than can be released in the fuel cell.

Hank (356), I haven't yet read the paper but a couple of thoughts from your excerpt don't seem intuitively obvious: 1) why would CO2 coming from burning fossil fuel be more forcing than CO2 from any other source.

One opportunity was unmentioned in Kerry's speech and this post: the chance for the United States to help India develop its shale gas, an energy source that India is keen on tapping and that is cleaner than other fossil fuel choices.

A carbon tax will make fossil fuel prices come closer to covering full cost, incorporating some of those fuels» currently - excluded costs: our dependence on and enrichment of oil - country despots, huge military costs of protecting distant oil operations and transport, health costs from emissions other than CO2, etc., etc., etc.....

This would serve multiple purposes, of (a) weaning us from dependence on foreign oil and simultaneously depleting terror - exporting countries of their revenue stream, (b) reducing other pollutants besides CO2, (c) encouraging a more gradual and less economically disastrous transition from an economony based on a finite resource, (d) slow global warming, (e) move us in the direction of a VAT tax rather than an income tax (actually, personally I don't think e is such a great thing, but as many conversative groups favor it, I don't see why they would oppose a revenue - neutral tax on fossil fuels.

Solar power has lots of potential as an alternative to fossil fuels, but some of the things we use it for make more sense than others: From solar - powered food carts, airplanes, and vending machines to solar - powered dog sweaters and beehives, read on to see which innovations are truly bright ideas — and which ones are a little dim.

You can point the finger at all sorts of participants in this battle, but I believe (and we have been examining and discussing at length on this site for more than 8 years now) the principal drivers of the polarization are coming more from: (1) the corporate energy interests who are protecting their profits against regulation and other policies that would move the system away from fossil fuels, and using their clout in the political process to tie things up; (2) right - wing anti-government and anti-regulatory ideologues whose political views appear threatened by scientific conclusions that point toward a need for stronger policy action; (3) people whose religious or cultural identities appear threatened by modern science; and so forth.

Caused by the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, agricultural practices, and other human impacts, climate change has currently raised global temperatures 0.8 degrees Celsius (1.44 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the Industrial Revolution average.

How sad it is that Obama, who has openly spruiked the «Spanish Model» in his determination to go «green», has failed to understand that the «Spanish Model» has been publicly acknowledged, by none other than the Spanish Prime Minister, as having caused untold damage to the Spanish economy and is simply not viable as a replacement for cheap and abundant traditional energy from fossil fuels to drive a modern economy.

«Along with new policies that spur competition in several other countries, this Chinese dynamic has led to record - low announced prices of solar PV and onshore wind, which are now comparable or even lower than new - built fossil fuel alternatives.

Western Europe with much less fossil fuel use than ever before, produces 50 % of its electricity from nuclear reactors and could provide the stimulus for others to re-instigate their nuclear production.

But let's get one thing straight, Oreskes is little more than yet another «cog in the wheel» when it comes to accusing skeptic climate scientists of being paid shills of the fossil fuel industry, enslaved just like all the other cogs to the same single source for the accusation, Ross Gelbspan.

Cramer has a long record of climate change denial (apropos of nothing, over his career Cramer has received more than a half million bucks in funding from the fossil fuel industry, more than twice as much as any other industry).

With nuclear power cheaper than fossil fuel generated electricity it could avoid 50 % of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels by around mid 21st Century (and achieve the other objectives in the list).

An epilogue that is far longer than all but one other chapter — material that might have been incorporated effectively in earlier sections that discussed the same topics — arrives at the unexceptionable conclusion that «Americans must pull together as one» in order to wean ourselves from fossil fuels.

And (in the last chapter) the range of «mitigation» approaches available, other than reduction of fossil fuel use (which the middle of the book is all about).

Known reserves of uranium (other than low concentrations in granite and seawater) are actually roughly equivalent in energy content to estimated fossil fuel reserves.

«In a record - breaking year for renewable energy creation worldwide, the 98 gigawatts of new solar capacity was higher than all other technologies, including other renewables, nuclear and fossil fuels.»