Sentences with phrase «prevent fossil fuel generation»

«They provide clean air, they prevent fossil fuel generation and you ought to pay them for that if you want to keep them around,» he said.

Not exact matches

The CLF argued that adding more fossil fuel generation — even an efficient gas - fired plant — would prevent Massachusetts from cutting its carbon dioxide emissions 80 percent by the year 2050, as state law requires.

Remove all the impediments we've imposed, over the past 50 years, that are preventing nuclear electricity generation from being cost competitive with fossil fuels.

By displacing electricity from fossil - fuel based generation it also helps to prevent the emission of various air pollutants.

• Kyoto Protocol • EU ETS • Australian CO2 tax and ETS • Mandating and heavily subsidising ($ / TWh delivered) renewable energy • Masses of inappropriate regulations that have inhibited the development of nuclear power, made it perhaps five times more expensive now than it should be, slowed its development, slowed its roll out, caused global CO2 emissions to be 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would otherwise have been, meaning we are on a much slower trajectory to reduce emissions than we would be and, most importantly, we are locked in to fossil fuel electricity generation that causes 10 to 100 times more fatalities per TWh than would be the case if we allowed nuclear to develop (or perhaps 1000 times according to this: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html • Making building regulations that effectively prevent people from selling, refurbishing or updating their houses if they are close to sea level (the damage to property values and to property owners» life savings is enormous as many examples in Australia are already demonstrating.

However, apparent cost is the constraint that prevents nuclear and renewable energies from fully supplanting fossil fuel electricity generation.

Because wind power fails to deliver at all hundreds of times each year, 100 % of its capacity has to be backed up 100 % of the time by fossil fuel generation sources — which run constantly in the background to balance the grid and prevent blackouts when wind power output collapses — as it does on a routine, but unpredictable, basis (see our posts here and here and here and