Sentences with phrase «replace old fossil»

I would agree 100 % that building nuclear power plants using today's best technology to cover a majority of future electrical energy needs or to replace old fossil fuel plants that are being decommissioned anyway makes sense.

Not exact matches

With new, eco-friendly technologies waiting to replace old - school nuclear or fossil - fuel turbines like this one, the energy industry is going to drastically change... eventually.

Replacing old slowly growing forest by young rapidly growing one is useful only if the old trees are either stored so that they will not release their carbon back to atmosphere or used to replace fossil fuels or materials, whose manufacturing causes CO2 emissions.

On the other hand, it is reasonable to assume that natural market factors will gradually result in a reduction of ever more expensive fossil fuel combustion as older coal - fired power plants are shut down and replaced by nuclear plants, as hybrid and electrical cars gradually replace gasoline and diesel driven ones, and as energy efficiency is improved and waste reduced.

But obviously this is not the case as you can clearly see based on the fact that greenhouse emissions from other sources are many orders of magnitudes higher than from PV, even if you take old data and produce PV in large number on old inefficient equipment and do ignore the simple fact that PV electricity production replaces fossil fuel based electricity production!

With that in mind, they are looking to come up with a separate design that would blend in better with older buildings, but they also hope that more people will change their minds and realize that buildings and design can evolve, especially in order to replace fossil fuels with solar power.

In each case new fossil fuels replaced old solar based systems.