Sentences with phrase «proportion by fossil fuel»
This is a point routinely mentioned at the top of the list of challenges for wider deployment of clean energy (and too often blown way out of proportion by fossil fuel interests).
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«(C) the proportion of electricity generated by a fossil - fueled generating unit that is equal to the proportion of greenhouse gases produced by such unit that are captured and geologically sequestered.
Yet there is a significant proportion of Australians who believe it is not happening or it is not caused by mankind, and while our government does recognise ACC it is steadfastly supporting the fossil fuel industry, not supporting renewable energy and doing very little to reduce Australia's exceptionally high rate of greenhouse gas production.
Thirdly, that is irrelevant to my main point that man emits CO2, CO2 has increased in the atmosphere in direct proportion to mans emissions and because it is new CO2 from fossil fuels the amount of carbon in the carbon cycle has increased by the same amount.
«(iii) the quantity of electricity generated by a fossil - fuel facility that is equal to the proportion of greenhouse gases produced by such a unit that are captured and geologically sequestered; or
https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/world/as-appetite-for-electricity-soars-the-world-keeps-turning-to-coal/1842/ «[T] wo - thirds of the world's electricity is still produced by burning fossil fuels, mostly coal — a proportion that hasn't budged for 35 years.
Without uptake by other C reservoirs, doubling atmospheric CO2 via combustion of fossil fuels (in the proportions considered earlier) would directly produce 27.5 ZJ (873 TW * yr, or 8.73 TW for 100 years) of (primary) energy (based on the ratio found earlier — it can vary).
AGW has as its premise that the majority and an increasing proportion with time of both global temperature and sea - level rises are anthropogenically caused by A-CO2 emissions, specifically fossil fuel burning.
The RPS are state impositions on utility companies, requiring them to generate a proportion of their electricity from sources that do not burn fossil fuels and thus stoke global warming by emitting the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide.