Sentences with phrase «rather than fossil fuel»

Support public policies that provide incentives for renewable energy rather than fossil fuel extraction.

Ask them to side with the children of this country rather than the fossil fuel lobbyists.

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.

And I will say to the fossil fuel industries if you're out there, think about making your mission energy production rather than fossil fuel extraction and burning.

This time, the dominant carbon isotopic values in the new inputs were about -60 ‰, pointing to a microbially driven source rather than fossil fuel inputs.

«That means the electricity to power every light, refrigerator and check out - lane comes from renewable sources, rather than fossil fuels,» it states.

Having the Belleayre, Gore and Whiteface ski centers join The Climate Reality Project's «I Am Snow 100 %» program is in line with Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, which requires that half of all electricity used in New York come from renewable sources, rather than fossil fuels, by 2030, the governor's office said in a press release.

So the plastic fittings around windows would be manufactured from modified bacteria rather than fossil fuels, but as a city dweller you'd notice little difference.

That agriculture, rather than fossil fuels, is driving methane poses a new set of problems for governments trying to fight climate change, Schaefer says.

I'm all for finding a new source of energy rather than fossil fuels (unfortunately our enemies have most of it, and what we have the environmental lobby blocks from being accessed) for security and economic reasons, but until the market proves that $ 100 + per barrel of oil is not efficient enough to switch, I'm not for the government putting a gun to our heads and forcing us to change.

Because electricity and heat account for 41 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, curbing climate change will require satisfying much of that demand with renewables rather than fossil fuels.

J&D also note that by transitioning to more efficient technologies (for example, battery electric vehicles over the internal combustion engine, electric heat pumps for homes, and solar thermal energy with storage to provide baseload power rather than fossil fuels and nuclear) we can actually reduce global power production by 30 % compared to business - as - usual.

The use of solar power to produce electricity at the plant, rather than fossil fuels, will result in a reduction of greenhouse gases equivalent to removing approximately one million cars from the nation's highways.

The use of solar thermal power to produce electricity at Nevada Solar One rather than fossil fuels is equivalent to eliminating the CO2 emissions from approximately 20,000 cars on America's roads.

A poll by TNS and YouGov for the online activist group Avaaz late last week found that 56 % of Poles thought that EU financial support for energy should back clean energy rather than fossil fuels.

However, the climate benefits of shifting from fossil - fueled transportation to electric cars, trucks, buses and trains only pencil out if our electricity itself is clean — that it's produced through carbon - free resources such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric, rather than fossil fuels such as coal, oil or fracked gas.

They want the states to implement the CIC's ideology concerning the supposed need for using so - called «renewable» (perhaps better described as unreliable) sources of electric power rather than fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

Ultimately, oil and gas companies need to become what they claim to be; «integrated energy companies», rather than integrated fossil fuel companies.

Besides, as some savvy environmentalists are arguing, trying to reduce GHG emissions by chocking fossil fuel supplies — rather than reducing demand for them — is tilting at windmills.)

My 11 - year - old self would never have believed that 50 years later our governments would be continuing to prop up the extraction and export of fossil fuels, rather than leaping to embrace the green future that awaited us.

As an energy investor, I'd rather be in a growing renewable energy business that's taking market share in electricity generation than a fossil fuel business that's losing market share every year.

After all, the latter would entail divesting from the modern economy as a whole, since so many companies gain a distinct advantage from using gas - powered trucks rather than horse - drawn wagons, thus profiting from the production of fossil fuels.

Addressing the issue of excessive consumption of fossil fuel is one of many problems that have fallen victim of this need to self justify and hate, rather than solve a problem that affects everyone.

A 2016 report by energy research firm Corporate Knights estimated that by sticking with fossil, rather than clean, fuels, New York pensioners missed out on roughly $ 5.3 billion in added earnings in 2015.

«Divesting from fossil fuel stocks doesn't solve the problem, but it sends a huge message that government and its citizens should not be investing in the type of fuel that we know increase the problems we face rather than decrease and reverse the outcome of climate change.»

«Rather than invest resources in developing nineteenth - century fuels and fossil fuel infrastructure, we need to invest in renewable energy.

They have also said that pipelines increase reliance on fossil fuel, rather than shifting toward clean energy sources.

«Rather than subsidize the past, we should invest in the future — especially in communities that rely on fossil fuels,» Obama said.

This also means that other generators, such as those powered by fossil fuels, can scale their power output in advance rather than rapidly ramping up or slowing down to compensate for wind, increasing their efficiency and improving the grid's reliability.

The authors argue that the large emerging economies are clearly fuelling themselves with renewables and nuclear as well as, rather than instead of, fossil fuels, for various reasons, and that this will not change soon.

«More than anything else this requires rapid and strong reductions of burning fossil fuels such as coal; but some emissions, for instance from industrial processes, will be difficult to reduce — therefore getting CO2 out of the air and storing it safely is a rather hot topic.

Hydrogen can also be split from water in high - temperature nuclear reactors or generated from fossil fuels such as coal or natural gas, with the resulting carbon dioxide captured and sequestered rather than released into the atmosphere.

And, although a few projects such as the Sleipner gas field in the North Sea or oil fields owned by the EnCana Corporation in Calgary, Alberta have proved that CO2 can be pumped underground and remain trapped below cap rock, they are aimed at enhancing recovery of the fossil fuels in those fields rather than permanently storing the greenhouse gas.

Emissions of CO2 by human activities, including fossil fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring, amount to about 27 billion tonnes per year (30 billion tons)-LSB-(Marland, et al., 2006)-- The reference gives the amount of released carbon (C), rather than CO2, through 2003.].

As such the paper serves as a complement, rather than an alternative, to other methods of attributing climatic change to human activity (fossil fuel burning).

But rather than take responsibility for their and your own behavior lets instead put it all on the heads of fossil fuel companies.

But a good chunk of humanity will survive, and wind up using fusion powered hydrogen ramjets to reach the stars, rather than the vanishing fossil fuels.

At least that way you can convince smokers that cigarettes do not cause cancer rather than trying to convince NY Times readers that burning fossil fuels has no impact on Earth's climate.

This would serve multiple purposes, of (a) weaning us from dependence on foreign oil and simultaneously depleting terror - exporting countries of their revenue stream, (b) reducing other pollutants besides CO2, (c) encouraging a more gradual and less economically disastrous transition from an economony based on a finite resource, (d) slow global warming, (e) move us in the direction of a VAT tax rather than an income tax (actually, personally I don't think e is such a great thing, but as many conversative groups favor it, I don't see why they would oppose a revenue - neutral tax on fossil fuels.

Over the past half century, I think fossil fuels have become a source of complacency rather than a stimulus for growth.

It's perhaps also worth noting that that the pace of fossil fuel export emission growth in Australia is accelerating rather than contracting, in spite of a carbon tax and a resources tax.

The radiative forcing right after the release would be similar to that from fossil fuel CO2 by the end of the century, but subsiding quickly rather than continuing to grow as business - as - usual CO2 does.

We need to do a «full court press» to switch from fossil fuels and nuclear (which also releases heat into water on a large scale, and supports nuclear military programs), using existing and near - commercialization battery, solar and wind technology, and design systems to cost - effectively convert the existing 600 - million - plus vehicle fleet rather than waiting for replacement.

Michael @ 498, OK, now that we've established that you are not in immediate danger of a judgment of non compos mentis, why are you assuming that human welfare is dependent particularly on fossil fuels rather than on energy resources in general?

I understand it is because in the last few years the temperature of the Earth has actually cooled so, rather than lose the momentum they had gained to make political inroads to underwrite global measures to control societies» behaviors when it comes to things like use of fossil fuels, proponents decided to cut their losses and change the term so they wouldn't be obviously wrong to the masses as it snowed on various global warming rallies.

The main difference with this was that it was often (especially in Australia) generated by burning another fossil fuel: coal rather than oil.

It is not too late for the transition to a lower - carbon economy to be an orderly one, with fossil fuel companies steadily shrinking overall but delivering the best results for their shareholders by focusing on value rather than volume.

The majority of internet references I initially found credited the accusation to ex-Boston Globe reporter / book author / «Pulitzer - winner» Ross Gelbspan, and his «discovery» that the fossil fuel industry was paying skeptic scientists «under the table» to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» — according to a leaked coal association memo he supposedly found.

Rather than promote the solar revolution in the US, the fossil fuel industry «is doing all that it can to stop its growth.»

We're looking for reductions in the use of fossil fuels rather than these technologies that in all likelihood would come to nothing.»