Sentences with phrase «out of all fossil fuel energy»

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Jenkins wrote on Twitter that Germany's shift in energy policy was misguided and resulted effectively in fossil fuels replacing much of the missing nuclear power — a pattern that's playing out at home, as well.

The final agreement involves several legally binding clauses, with trillions of dollars dedicated to reducing the dependence on fossil fuels within many countries, and to rolling out a huge expansion of renewable energy.

After his departure, China said it plans to accelerate the use of alternative - energy cars, phasing out sales of fossil - fuel vehicles and turning the province into a free - trade port.

When fossil fuels run out we shall have invented ways of using the energy of the sun to drive our industries.

When we clear forests, we're not only knocking out our best ally in capturing the staggering amount of GHGs we humans create (which we do primarily by burning fossil fuels at energy facilities, and of course, in cars, planes, and trains).

Turns out, $ 750 million worth of State money is going to SolarCity to build solar panels, which will presumably be in high demand as the nation transfers away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy sources.

He's in favor of opting out of the Common Core state learning standards, banning hydrofracking and converting the state's fossil fuel infrastructure to «green» sources of energy like solar.

My campaign is calling for 100 % Clean Energy in New York by 2030, including a complete ban on fracking, a phase out of all nuclear plants, no new fossil fuel infrastructure, and the rapid development of a clean energy system based on distributed renewable energy production from solar, wind, and water resources and an interactive smartEnergy in New York by 2030, including a complete ban on fracking, a phase out of all nuclear plants, no new fossil fuel infrastructure, and the rapid development of a clean energy system based on distributed renewable energy production from solar, wind, and water resources and an interactive smartenergy system based on distributed renewable energy production from solar, wind, and water resources and an interactive smartenergy production from solar, wind, and water resources and an interactive smart grid.

He was speaking ahead of Wednesday's Second Reading of the Energy Bill, where he wants targets to phase out fossil fuels and to decarbonise electricity generation.

Building out the full renewable energy system in New York in the next 15 years will create 4.5 million jobs while lowering electric rates to half of what fossil and nuclear fuels will cost in the next decade, according to a recent study by Cornell and Stanford researchers.

Environmental Advocates of New York says the Cuomo team deserves credit for its aggressive State Energy Plan, but cautions the goals may be just out of reach should the state go the way of re-firing outdated fossil fuel plants and raiding carbon abatement programs like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

They support the phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies in the «medium term» and pledge a huge boost to renewable energy, including through a new $ 2 billion «Low Carbon Economy Trust» to fund clean energy projects.

To work out the economic benefits and costs of switching to clean energy, the team estimated how much air pollution would fall if fossil fuel use was slashed.

But by putting the targets into law and mandating a set of regulations — including requiring 35 percent of the country's electricity to come from clean sources by 2024; establishing a voluntary carbon market; developing incentives to promote renewable energy; phasing out fossil fuel subsidies; and forcing companies in the largest carbon polluting sectors to report their emissions — they said the results could be groundbreaking.

But as Kurt E. Yeager, former president of the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., points out, such standards «aren't worth the paper they're written on until we have a power system, a grid, that is capable of assimilating that intermittent energy without having to build large quantities of backup power, fossil - fueled, to enable it.»

Implementing key policies and investments in those three systems — from phasing out fossil fuels to stopping deforestation to ramping up energy efficiency — could deliver at least half of the emissions cuts needed by 2030 to lower the risk of dangerous climate change, said Jeremy Oppenheim, the report's program director.

Despite the renewables building boom, such geothermal, wind and solar projects still do not crowd out fossil fuel — fired generation in the energy mix of, for example, the utility Pacific Gas & Electric.

Global energy - related emissions could peak by 2020 if energy efficiency is improved; the construction of inefficient coal plants is banned; investment in renewables is increased to $ 400 billion in 2030 from $ 270 billion in 2014; methane emissions are cut in oil and gas production and fossil fuel subsidies are phased out by 2030.

-- The Secretary shall carry out a program to establish Energy Innovation Hubs to enhance the Nation's economic, environmental, and energy security by promoting commercial application of clean, indigenous energy alternatives to oil and other fossil fuels, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and ensuring that the United States maintains a technological lead in the development and commercial application of state - of - the - art energy technolEnergy Innovation Hubs to enhance the Nation's economic, environmental, and energy security by promoting commercial application of clean, indigenous energy alternatives to oil and other fossil fuels, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and ensuring that the United States maintains a technological lead in the development and commercial application of state - of - the - art energy technolenergy security by promoting commercial application of clean, indigenous energy alternatives to oil and other fossil fuels, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and ensuring that the United States maintains a technological lead in the development and commercial application of state - of - the - art energy technolenergy alternatives to oil and other fossil fuels, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and ensuring that the United States maintains a technological lead in the development and commercial application of state - of - the - art energy technolenergy technologies.

The World Energy Outlook 2016, released last week, is just one among an increasing line of studies showing how nations need to slow and, ultimately, phase out investment in new fossil fuel supply infrastructure — from oil fields and pipelines to coal mines — if they are serious about keeping warming to 2C or less.

In 1997, Tickell set out on the road with a biodiesel powered «Veggie Van» and a video camera and began filming what would eventually become known as FUEL, the 2008 Sundance Audience Award winning documentary film that investigates the possible replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy.

On one side are the world's industrialized nations, which largely built their wealth through a century of fossil - fuel combustion; on the other, those seeking a path out of poverty that, for the moment, has to depend on the same energy sources, and in many cases also on clearing forests.

For ethanol there is in deed a big question here, but the DOE study on biodiesel claims that you get 3.5 units of biodiesel energy out for each unit of fossil fuel energy you put in; with better technology and crops, it can ge better.

The incident illustrates the importance of sweating the details if your goal is to build societal support for the grand challenge of getting out of our fossil - fueled comfort zone and de-carbonizing the fast - growing global energy system.

First let's get the blindingly obvious out of the way: energy does not have to come from fossil fuels.

That solution is to rapidly phase out fossil fuels and replace them with non-carbon sources of energy, use that energy with maximum efficiency, and use organic agriculture and reforestation to to draw down the already dangerous anthropogenic excess of atmospheric CO2.

Energy Policy, the journal that recently published a paper laying out an ambitious plan to end fossil fuel use in New York State within a few decades, has now published a short critique by four researchers in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

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.

This is a red herring, put out there by defenders of fossil fuel based energy.

Is there reason to think that this time — even with the added prod for new energy policies from the ongoing gulf oil disaster — that Americans will get out of the fossil - fueled comfort zone?

If only that much people (one out of ten) could manage to have a really decent life, yet, with (and historically only once was) «easy» fossil fuel energy source available, is it reasonable to expect that 10 times more people will manage to do so in future without that exceptional source of energy and much less «easy» renewable energy sources?

March 13, 12:43 p.m. Relevant tweets appended A group of scientists and energy analysts has laid out a path under which New York State could, in theory, eliminate its use of fossil fuels and nuclear power — including for transportation — by 2050.

Do we choose materials that take a lot of energy and fossil fuels to make and put out tons of CO2 in a massive hit right now, or do we strive to generate as little as possible and treat it as a loan we pay back?

I reached out to Pierrehumbert because he is one of many authors of «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful energy.

Second, if divestment were to reduce the financial resources of coal, oil, and gas companies (which it would NOT do), this would only reduce research and development at those same companies of: carbon capture and storage technologies; other key technological breakthroughs; and renewable sources of energy (the fossil fuel companies are carrying out much of the R&D on renewables).

Since when did any part of the scientific community rule out GEOTERHMAL energy as the main replacement for fossil fuels?

«It turns out, to get on a trajectory to hit 450 ppm, we're going to need to turn off most of our fossil fuel energy, end deforestation, and build about 11.5 new terawatts of clean energy capacity by 2033 (30 years out from the 2003 baseline).»

The two scientists have already reported on the increasing costs of delay in phasing out fossil fuel sources of energy.

Of course, my favorite method for finding out the system of meanings in the lives of a cultural group is to simply say, «Fossil fuels are beneficial because they provide abundant and inexpensive energy for the most peoplOf course, my favorite method for finding out the system of meanings in the lives of a cultural group is to simply say, «Fossil fuels are beneficial because they provide abundant and inexpensive energy for the most peoplof meanings in the lives of a cultural group is to simply say, «Fossil fuels are beneficial because they provide abundant and inexpensive energy for the most peoplof a cultural group is to simply say, «Fossil fuels are beneficial because they provide abundant and inexpensive energy for the most people.

Point five addresses bringing people out of poverty and calls for putting «an end to the fossil fuel era, phasing out fossil fuel emissions, including emissions from military aviation and shipping and providing affordable, reliable and safe renewable energy access for all.»

With the additional fossil fuel reserves we've figured out how to exploit, we have some more time, unless we devolve backwards into the low energy societies of wind and sun power of the 19th century.

Firstly, there's the simple fact that is uses a massive amount of energy to function, and unless that energy comes from a sustainable source you're likely adding to the number of fossil fuels being burnt out there.

11/19/17 — Despite its stated goal of dramatically reducing carbon emissions by aggressively pursing clean energy technologies and phasing out fossil fuels, Germany is still burning lots of an especially dirty form of coal and is likely to badly miss its upcoming emission - reduction targets.

Bloomberg points out that the Obama Administration is «facing mounting calls from conservationists to thwart new fossil fuel development as part of the «keep it in the ground» movement» — which Murkowski says is a «misguided» effort that «will harm local economies and threaten future energy supplies.»

that «Human combustion of fossil fuels is significantly causing that climate change» is also true, then many, perhaps most, people will accept that there is a need to «reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build out clean energy» even if it will «cost consumers money, decrease energy security and destroy jobs».

In addition to the work in the World Energy Outlook, the IEA has provided input to the G - 20 and APEC since 2009, when G20 leaders took a major step toward reforming energy subsidies and committed to «rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption», the IEA has provided input to the G - 20 and APEC in support of their commitEnergy Outlook, the IEA has provided input to the G - 20 and APEC since 2009, when G20 leaders took a major step toward reforming energy subsidies and committed to «rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption», the IEA has provided input to the G - 20 and APEC in support of their commitenergy subsidies and committed to «rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption», the IEA has provided input to the G - 20 and APEC in support of their commitments.

If rejected, this would become the clearest case yet of energy storage beating out a fossil fuel plant to serve grid reliability.

Since 2009, the IEA has actively contributed to all energy work streams of the G20 — a group that accounts for 85 % of the global economy and 75 % of global energy demand — covering topics ranging from energy security and market transparency, to energy efficiency and the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies.

Professor Kevin Anderson, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the Teesside University said: «If the EU is to transform its energy system to align with the Paris temperature and equity commitments, it can not continue with business as usual and must instead initiate a rapid phase out of all fossil fuels including natural gas.

The Australian government's Energy White Paper [x] plans to facilitate the expansion of fossil fuel mining and export industries at a time when they must be phased out as fast as possible.