Sentences with phrase «percentage use of fossil fuels»
The actual energy saving for the country is not likely to be huge since heating residences is a relatively low percentage use of fossil fuels.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
Yes, fossil fuels (oil, coal, NG etc) still supply a very high percentage of all the energy we use.
bearing in mind that only a small percentage of earths population have access to electricity, if we enabled all under developed countries in the world with fossil fuel electricity and heating systems, we would likely have to cover every sq inch of farmland in trees to combat climate change.rather than outright fighting the building of wind turbines (that in future times can be repaired at a fraction of the impact and pollution of replacing them) we should be putting pressure on the manufacturers of these systems and technologies to invest more in finding green solutions to using the polluting chemicals in the construction of turbines.
If fossil power is cheap enough that there are only x % households in fuel poverty (Wiki: In the UK, fuel poverty is said to occur when in order to heat its home to an adequate standard of warmth a household needs to spend more than 10 % of its income to maintain an adequate heating regime), but the alternative carbon - free power increases the percentage of households by 10 % there are negative consequences to not using fossil power.
China's Premier has pledged to cut the percentage of fossil fuel in China's energy mix while scaling up the use of renewable energy and clean technologies.
Unearthed compared fossil fuel estimates from the US Geological Survey, Energy Information Administration and Alaska Department of Resources with federal land data from the Geological Survey, using mapping software to calculate the percentages of federal land acreage that overlap.
Thus, if we supplement considerably with solar, wind, water / tidal, some biofuels, etc... we will significantly improve the longevity of fossil fuels we need while reducing their combustion by an amazing percentage of total energy source use.
It is because so little energy is being used, and because alternatives are ruled out ab initio (the model contains no nuclear power, and no technology for storing away carbon emissions from fossil fuels; natural gas prices rise strongly and coal plants are retired well before they are clapped out) that the model ends up with such a high percentage of renewables; indeed given the premise it's slightly surprising it doesn't end up with even more.
I'll just direct readers to the TreeHugger archives on why we think there's no such thing as clean coal, and why carbon capture and storage can't be relied upon to allow us to keep using even a small percentage of the amount of fossil fuels we continue to burn: