Sentences with phrase «potential of alternative energy sources»

This altered the military acquisition process, changed the emphasis of research and uncovered the potential of alternative energy sources.

In his remarks, Holdren was also bullish on the potential of alternative energy sources to replace fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

The global energy market is undergoing significant change — from the development of technologies that are dramatically increasing the energy supply to the emergence of alternative energy sources — creating the potential to reshape economies and industries.

As the region thaws, the gas — a huge potential source of alternative energy — is bubbling out, simultaneously attracting venture capitalists and worrying climatologists.

«These findings have implications for airport safety but also have potential applications for agriculture and for alternative energy sources such as solar farms, where birds living and feeding in the area can cause disruption, and around wind turbines where the birds are at risk of collision and the threat to birds can sometimes be a legislative barrier,» Professor Swaddle added.

«This investigation helped in bridging the gap between hydrochar being considered as a potential energy source toward the development of an alternative renewable fuel,» Gross explains.

Another potential space - based alternative energy source is atomic fusion using helium - 3, an element rare on Earth, yet abundant on the lunar surface and in the atmospheres of the gas giants.

While we are disappointed with DOE's decision to exclude Holtec from the award, we remain confident that our reactor, the SMR - 160, has the greatest potential to triumph in a global marketplace because it is designed to meet the highest expectations of safety and is uniquely engineered to compete economically with other sources of alternative energy in the evolving era of cheap fossil fuels.

«Even in the expected event that there are no important breakthroughs in the cost of nuclear power, the potential for alternative energy sources, mainly solar and wind power, to completely replace coal and gas for utility generation globally is, I think, certain.

At the same time, the Delaware River Basin Commission — of which Paterson is a member — also looks like it is moving forward on allowing fracking in the area, despite objections from various sources (including Paterson) and a lack of adequate scientific review of the potential consequences.The energy industry has welcomed the moratorium as a positive alternative to what it called a «flawed» piece of legislation.