Sentences with phrase «reliance on alternative energy»

Ironically, the need to modernize the state's energy system dovetails with the goal of developing policies that encourage energy use reduction, efficiency measures, and the move to reliance on alternative energy sources, such as solar power.

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He was frustrated by the conventional wisdom that suggested Mexico's reliance on distributed power made adopting alternative energy more difficult.

«I support reliance on alternative and renewable energies and have promoted their use with codes and action,» he said.

Sustainability and Resiliency: The contract should require design enhancements which would allow the system to make use of alternative energy sources, like solar power, while also reducing its reliance on the existing power grid.

Hydrogen gas is a promising alternative energy source to overcome our reliance on carbon - based fuels, and has the benefit of producing only water when it is reacted with oxygen.

Despite his criticisms of China's reliance on coal - fired power plants, Brown is upbeat about the country's alternative energy development.

Converting poultry waste to solid fuel, a less resource - intensive, renewable energy source is an environmentally superior alternative that also reduces reliance on fossil fuels.»

Germany — once a global leader in the race for reliance on «alternative» forms of energy — has discovered that no amount of environmentalist ideology can alter the fundamental laws of economics.

Reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and moving to alternative or renewable energy supplies works to mitigate both AGW and FF depletion.

The environmental threats and economic costs of continued reliance on fossil fuel technologies are sufficiently urgent to warrant substantially larger public support in the form of private - sector R&D incentives and a refocusing of effort by the national energy laboratories on the development and diffusion of alternative energy technologies.

India is also the world's fifth largest greenhouse gas emitter, according to the latest reliable information (CAIT 2007), with a heavy reliance on coal power stations, though India's strong economic growth has meant that demand for electricity often outstrips supply, which has reinforced the need for alternative energy sources.

The group supports increased reliance on alternative fuels that are domestically produced, such as gasohol and biomass, and on cars such as plug - in hybrids that can draw energy from the grid.

Following is a second set of answers from Carol E. Murphy, who is taking questions from City Room readers about alternative energy choices for consumers, what New York City is doing to decrease its reliance on fossil fuels and how city dwellers can decrease their «carbon footprint.»

When combined with some of the good ideas from Obama's speech, like greater reliance on clean, cheap hydro - power and increased energy development on public lands such a structure would constitute a substantive and authentically conservative alternative that has been lacking in recent years.

This week, through Friday, Carol E. Murphy will be taking questions about alternative energy choices for consumers, what New York City is doing to decrease its reliance on fossil fuels and how city dwellers can decrease their «carbon footprint.»