Sentences with phrase «parts than fossil fuel»

Our electric motors have significantly fewer moving parts than fossil fuel engines, resulting in 70 % lower maintenance costs.

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More than 3,500 churches are ditching fossil fuels for renewable electricity as part of efforts to tackle climate change.

Over the past 250 years, human activities such as fossil fuel burning have raised the atmospheric CO2 concentration by more than 40 % over its preindustrial level of 280 ppm (parts per million).

«If you look at cost per kilowatt - hour, renewables, in some parts of the country, are already cheaper [than fossil fuels].»

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.

I mentioned this to executives at Exxon before it was Exxon Mobile many times back in the 1990s when I was working with you all that if you were an energy company rather than a fossil fuel extraction company you could be part of the future instead of part of the past.

But CO2 never rose higher than 280 parts per million until around 1890, when the burning of fossil fuels and forests began to generate enormous amounts of this gas.

Moving on to assess the influence of fossil fuel emissions during this same period, it's important to stress that literally all investigators acknowledge that both the level of AGW and the rate of increase were far less at that time than what we see in the latter part of the century.

The world's great forests are part of the climate machinery, and more than 195 nations agreed in Paris in 2015 to take steps to contain climate change, both by managing the way they used land and by switching from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy.

• global emissions from fossil fuels are reduce by 50 % in 50 years • Due in part to lower cost energy, the world will be much richer than current projections suggest; as a result, population growth rate slows to the low end of projections.

After dismissing the article as «reactionary, evidence - free journalism which provides a small part of a whole picture, thereby giving the wrong view», she makes her argument that the fossil fuel lobby — the Black Fog — is far more extended into policymaking than the Green Blob is.

But he didn't complain, other than to point out that the exponential part of their law was weakening lately with the 1974 oil crisis and increasing prices for all fossil fuels, with which I fully agreed.

The «pollution paradigm» of climate change limits the opportunities for addressing or solving the issue, in part because fossil fuel emissions make up such a small fraction of the annual flux of CO2 into the atmosphere (less than 3 %).

In some parts of the country, renewable energy projects are still more expensive than fossil fuels — particularly dirt - cheap natural gas.

... Ultimately, if we are going prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we are going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them...

Climate change advocates will see it as a way to curb the consumption of fossil fuels, in part by narrowing the competitive gap with renewables; their opponents will see such a tax as meeting a long - held conservative view that it is more growth - friendly to tax consumption rather than the proceeds of work and risk - taking, to be paired with environmentalists» agreement to substitute the tax for the EPA's regulations.

For its part, the Communist Chinese regime — which is the world's biggest emitter of CO2, emitting more than the United States and Canada combined — gets a free ride, essentially, burning fossils fuels to its heart's content, for the next 15 years.

The accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid by the fossil fuel industry to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» has two parts: the 1991 - ’95 span when it got little public interest, and late 1995 to the present, when it became far more widespread.

Part of the answer must be that the fossil fuel industry is much bigger than the halogenated hydrocarbon industry, and its lobbying power much greater.

Already, more than 10,000 people die each day from the small particles emitted from fossil - fuel burning; each year, 339,000 people die from wildfire smoke, in part because climate change has extended forest - fire season (in the U.S., it's increased by 78 days since 1970).

Why the part about black carbon from fossil fuels being a greater cause of warming than burning biomass is important is that usually the causes of this soot are all lumped together — stopping burning biomass for cooking and heating, plus cleaning up diesel engines get equal attention.

Renewable energy stocks, on average, steadily grow at a far greater pace than even the best fossil fuel companies, leading to an «irrational exhuberance» for alternative energy stocks on the part of Wall Street stalwarts.

That's it — every year that goes by, more and more parts of the country (and the world, as a whole) have more expensive fossil fuel based energy than one can make themselves with renewable sources.

For reference, this is about 30 times more carbon than all fossil fuels humanity has ever burned to date, and according to the researchers, it increased the atmospheric CO2 concentration from 800 parts per million to more than 2,000 ppm.

It concluded that, all in all, job impacts would be positive, in part because clean energy investments are more labor - intensive than fossil fuel investments.

For the vast majority of that time period, the commerce and industry of the north (powered to a great extent by hydro power prior to the widespread adoption of coal as a fossil fuel) produced much higher GDP per capita than the agricultural economies of the South, particularly because the infamous «three - fifths compromise» that gave the South Congressional representation based in part upon the number of slaves who lived there (30 % or more of the population of many states) did not apply to capitation taxes.