Sentences with phrase «replace fossil fuel infrastructure»

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We lock ourselves into bad carbon behavior every time we replace one retiring piece of infrastructure with another that runs on fossil fuels.

It would be unfortunate, to put it mildly, to spend countless trillions replacing fossil - fuel energy infrastructure only to discover that its successor is also more damaging than it need be.

The inertia of energy system infrastructure, i.e., the time required to replace fossil fuel energy systems, will make it exceedingly difficult to avoid a level of atmospheric CO2 that would eventually have highly undesirable consequences.

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The question of where we would get enough biomass to replace fossil fuels in a sustainable way could be very tricky, as could be the question of how we build the infrastructure required to ship all of the sequestered CO2 to sites where we can bury it cost - effectively.

What will need to be replaced in the next 30 years are aging fossil fuel infrastructures like outdated coal - fired power plants.

Andersen: In your book, you argue that it would be impossible to transition away from fossil fuels quickly, because our current global - energy infrastructure simply can't be replaced within a single generation.

Incentives must be provided for economic development that steadily replaces outdated fossil fuel - based energy infrastructure.

Fossil fuels will be replaced by other energy sources, over time, in the same way as all previous major infrastructure technology transitions have occurred.

Can we replace infrastructure that relies on fossil fuels?

The inertia of energy system infrastructure, i.e., the time required to replace fossil fuel energy systems, will make it exceedingly difficult to avoid a level of atmospheric CO2 that would eventually have highly undesirable consequences.

Twenty - first century clean energy technologies are already being designed, built, marketed, and installed to replace more than a century's worth of entrenched fossil fuel infrastructure, and a recent report by the Department of Commerce indicates that there are nearly 2 million clean energy jobs in our economy today, with more on the way.

We also look at how people can use direct investments or peer to peer lending to fund the clean energy infrastructure that needs to replace fossil fuels.

But if existing zero - carbon technologies can not affordably be scaled up to meet current and projected global energy needs, how likely is it that technologies either not yet invented or as yet prohibitively expensive can affordably replace the world's fossil - fuel infrastructure?