Sentences with phrase «over fossil fuel production»

Bringing evidence and systems thinking to the debate over fossil fuel production, the renewable energy transition, and the role of energy in modern life.

Not exact matches

Indeed, a recent research report from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) found that the majority of methane released in the air over the last 10 years likely came from agricultural sources (cow burps) as opposed to fossil fuel production.

Development of cost - effective means to separate carbon dioxide during the production process will improve this advantage over other fossil fuels and enable the economic production of gas resources with higher carbon dioxide content that would be too costly to recover using current carbon capture technologies, Tour said.

A boom in domestic natural gas production, historically low prices, and increased scrutiny over fossil fuels» carbon emissions.

If production continues as planned, over the next couple of decades natural gas could supplant coal as the leading domestic fossil fuel, serving as a cleaner way to heat our homes and fire our electric plants.

So the overall cost spread over time would be roughly equal to the price of the fossil fuel infrastructure, maintenance and production.

Over the course of the past three years, overall CO2 emissions from the production of fossil fuels have remained flat while the economy has grown, on average, at a rate of 3.1 percent.

Or does the current back - patting over increased domestic production ignore a bigger question: shouldn't we be curbing our reliance on fossil fuels altogether?

J&D also note that by transitioning to more efficient technologies (for example, battery electric vehicles over the internal combustion engine, electric heat pumps for homes, and solar thermal energy with storage to provide baseload power rather than fossil fuels and nuclear) we can actually reduce global power production by 30 % compared to business - as - usual.

There are immense direct and indirect public benefits in transitioning to an efficient renewable energy system in terms of reduced incidence of diseases such as asthma, freeing up of most of the supplies of water that are now used for thermal electricity generation (and hence reduced conflict over water), reduced air, water, and soil pollution that accompanies fossil fuel production, processing and use, and greatly improved prospects of avoiding the worst consequences of climate change.

Another gem is mentioning that not a word has come up in the presidential debates about global warming and in the last debate Romney and Obama were competing over who could increase domestic fossil fuel production faster and cheaper.

The red numbers and arrows show the additional fluxes caused by human activities averaged over 2000 - 2009, which include emissions due to the burning of fossil fuels, cement production and land use change (in total about 9 PgC / year).

Over 60 million tonnes of hydrogen are produced every year for a range of industrial purposes, including ammonia production, hydrocracking (breaking complex hydrocarbons into lighter fuels), and removing sulfur from fossil fuels.

I would like to see the environmental impact statement for 400 one gigawatt wind / solar farms (average output over a calendar year) and the lead / acid battery production facilities necessary to back each of them up over all anticipated combinations of overcast / calm / darkness to ensure that the 400 gigawatt baseload capacity was available with a reliability equal to or superior to that of the fossil fuel plants that they replaced.

Over 90 per cent of global emissions come from burning fossil fuels and cement production.

As can be seen by the figure, solar is being subsidized by over 1200 times more than coal and oil and natural gas electricity production, and wind is being subsidized over 80 times more than the more conventional fossil fuels on a unit of production basis.

Second, the rapid and large - scale exploitation of fossil fuels [4]-- a vast stock of nonrenewable resources accumulated by Nature over hundreds of millions of years that are being drawn down in just a few centuries — and the invention of the Haber — Bosch process to use natural gas to produce nitrogen fertilizer [5,6] enabled increasingly higher levels of food and energy production.

The oil sands, even in the worst case (assuming constant production rates of coal, gas and conventional oil, with accelerated bitumen production), will only contribute a small proportion, about 3 %, to fossil - fuel emissions over this century.

Fossil fuels not only provide the energy required for our manufacturing processes that alternatives will be hard - pressed (if even possible) to replace (including those needed to create the alternatives) but have been used to underpin much of the world's food production (while not particularly wise over the long - term, the world's population depends upon fossil fuel - based herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers to remainFossil fuels not only provide the energy required for our manufacturing processes that alternatives will be hard - pressed (if even possible) to replace (including those needed to create the alternatives) but have been used to underpin much of the world's food production (while not particularly wise over the long - term, the world's population depends upon fossil fuel - based herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers to remainfossil fuel - based herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers to remain fed).