Sentences with phrase «replace fossil fuels now»

Experts agree we need a substantial reduction in CO2 over the next 40 - 50 years and this means we need renewable energy to replace fossil fuels now.

«Renewable energy sources are replacing fossil fuels now....

Renewable energy sources are replacing fossil fuels now, all over the world, and increasingly are doing so at cost * savings.

That richer, fairer, cooler, safer world is possible, practical, even profitable - because saving and replacing fossil fuels now works better and costs no more than buying and burning them.

Not exact matches

Now that energy is becoming the factor that is scarce and labor is plentiful, it would make more sense to replace fossil fuels by labor, especially at those points where that could also restore interest and dignity to work.

This is how the game goes for now: constant tweaking, all in the hope of finding the right technology for harvesting sunlight and replacing fossil fuels.

It's now pretty clear that renewables can replace fossil fuels in their main uses, electricity generation and land transport, at a very modest cost or, as appears to be the case for electricity, with a cost saving.

Backing out fossil fuels begins with the electricity sector, where the development of 5,153 gigawatts of new renewable generating capacity by 2020, over half of it from wind, would be more than enough to replace all the coal and oil and 70 percent of the natural gas now used to generate electricity.

For many years coal was the second largest electricity provider in Illinois, with ample coal reserves in Southern Illinois, but as a fossil fuel which emits CO2, coal is now the whipping boy of the environments and those who believes that renewable energy sources can replace fossil fuels.

Have you done any calculations of the area required to produce the quantity of transport fuels needed to replace fossil fuels globally, now, in 2050, in 2100?

I keep hearing that solar is now so cheap that we are on the verge of replacing fossil fuels.

Research into algae - based biofuel continues, but some researchers now believe that completing replacing fossil based fuels any time soon in out of the question.

Not only is there a lack of political will to make major cuts to fossil fuel use, there is no physical capacity to replace such cuts now or into the future in full with any Non-carbon energy supply.

The basic problems with using wind energy to replace fossil fuels are the following: — Low and erratic availability (22 - 26 %)-- No practical means of storing the energy on the scale required if wind energy becomes more than the minute portion of our energy production it is now.