Sentences with phrase «replacements for fossil»

Third, understand how and why alternate energies are completely inadequate replacements for fossil fuels.

For transportation and heating, there currently aren't very good replacements for fossil fuels and the ones that exist will demand more electricity.

Before anyone could possibly develop, test, certify, and build next - generation nuclear it will be rendered uncompetitive by cheap synthetic replacements for fossil fuels.

r & D funding: end research on replacements for fossil fuels.

d) they believe that control of CO2 emissions will include governments making it more costly to use fossil fuels, punishing manufacturing and other commercial types of business for not moving to other forms of energy, even though there are no adequate replacements for fossil fuels available.

These centers will mobilize the enormous talents and skills of our nation's scientific workforce in pursuit of the breakthroughs that are essential to make alternative and renewable energy truly viable as large - scale replacements for fossil fuels.»

And if no replacements for fossil fuel are found, the temperatures could continue to escalate.

Using these tools, Carothers expects that bacteria can renewably produce hydrocarbons already in use today, like diesel and jet fuel, creating «drop - in» replacements for fossil energy.

Although solar cell technology for converting the sun's power into electricity has improved steadily in recent years, high costs and inefficiencies have kept it from being a serious replacement for fossil fuels.

Only a lower - priced, reliable and convenient replacement for fossil fuels will make a difference.

Since when did any part of the scientific community rule out GEOTERHMAL energy as the main replacement for fossil fuels?

The latest controversy centers on EPA's proposed rule to characterize biomass burning as a carbon - neutral replacement for fossil fuels under the Clean Power Plan — an issue covered smartly in June 2016 by the Washington Post and in October 2016 by New York Times economic columnist Eduardo Porter.

You haven't mentioned examples such as the extremists» claims about algae as a cost competitive replacement for fossil fuels.

Biofuels are gaining more and more ground as a replacement for fossil fuels.

Poo fuel, or eFuel as it is correctly called, has heating properties similar to that of coal but because of its renewable nature, has zero net greenhouse gas emissions and is a viable replacement for fossil fuels.

Hubbert believed that solar power would be a practical renewable energy replacement for fossil fuels, and that nuclear energy in breeder reactors would be able to sustain us for centuries.

In that respect, this begs the question of why the governments of the world have not been, as rapidly as humanly possible, promoting renewables as a replacement for fossil fuels.

The replacement for fossil fuels is available, nuclear energy.

The consequences of implementing a proposed replacement for fossil fuels should be consistent with all of our reasons for doing so, which means that it must be cheaper.

When you can provide something authoritative that shows this idea can produce a replacement for fossil at competitive cost, provide the quantities of fuel required and the area that would be required, and show the basis of these estimates, then I may take you a bit more seriously than i do now (but probably not seeing as you don't even realise when you write mWh instead of MWh — repeatedly!).

I thought I'd read you agreeing with Lang that solar was not a viable replacement for fossil fuels.

GREENTECHMEDIA: «Plug - In Hybrid's New Spokesman: Andy Grove, The former Intel chief extols the virtues of plug - in hybrid electric cars and asks for free electricity and a tax credit to popularize them» by Ucilia Wang http://www.greentechmedia.com/­articles/­plug-in-hybrids-new-spokesman-andy-grove-1165.html Not enough effort is going into promoting electricity as a replacement for fossil fuels, Grove said.

But even King Hubbert himself, according to Wikipedia, «believed that solar power would be a practical renewable energy replacement for fossil fuels, and that nuclear energy in breeder reactors would be able to sustain us for centuries.»

Not exact matches

GWE combine specialized know - how in generating biogas with our extensive range of anaerobic reactors, and in supply and installation of biogas re-use and handling systems for fossil fuel replacement or power generation.

surely that was because wilshere was injured and therefore not marketable nothing to do with the fossil's favouratism... he hasnt sold carzola either... but for sure wilshere has the skills to provide a half way decent replacement for carzola whereas xhaka and ramsey and maitland niles and iwobi and chamberlain and the other average players wenger has persisted with arent in the same league

This relates to the whole area of development for people talking about biofuels, which is this idea of trying to develop replacements for the conventional sorts of fossil fuels that we have to at least — if we are going to be burning some sort of hydrocarbons of some kind — to try to get them [so] that they are being derived from a different source, and potentially or ideally, ones that would actually burn without delivering as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere too; that's great if you can get that.

Fracking is part of a nationwide boom in the production of natural gas, which is a ready replacement for home heating oil and could lessen dependence on foreign fossil fuels if vast underground shales could be hydraulically fractured.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a new, carbon - neutral way to convert vegetable - based fuels to syngas, a breakthrough that could allow producers to power hydrogen fuel cells or create a replacement for America's dwindling supplies of natural gas, all without relying on fossil fuels.

The task of simply substituting for fossil fuels on a 1:1 energy replacement basis will be much too difficult, e.g. not enough roof area for solar panels at current electricity demand, but delivering a set of services that require lower energy makes a solar building practical.

However, I've never seen a single media article in any U.S. press outlet that covered these issues — the large - scale evidence for global warming (melting glaciers, warming poles, shrinking sea ice, ocean temperatures) to the local scale (more intense hurricanes, more intense precipitation, more frequent droughts and heat waves) while also discussing the real causes (fossil fuels and deforestation) and the real solutions (replacement of fossil fuels with renewables, limiting deforestation, and halting the use of fossil fuels, especially coal and oil.)

1) Urge to let them use highly efficient equipment available now to burn fossil fuel even if it suppresses their economic growth due to their investment for replacement.

Seems like the UK is trying to scare everyone into action but there are no en masse replacement technologies for fossil fuels as yet and even if there was, where is the will to change over.

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.

That means that we'll need to convert the underlying electric grid — which now depends on fossil fuels to run turbines — to clean sources, which will be hard, but not as hard as figuring out some other low - carbon replacement for liquid fuels.

How sad it is that Obama, who has openly spruiked the «Spanish Model» in his determination to go «green», has failed to understand that the «Spanish Model» has been publicly acknowledged, by none other than the Spanish Prime Minister, as having caused untold damage to the Spanish economy and is simply not viable as a replacement for cheap and abundant traditional energy from fossil fuels to drive a modern economy.

One to one replacement of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) with fresh plant agrofuels is absolutely impossible for more than a few years.

Weigt, Hannes (2008): Germany's Wind Energy: The Potential for Fossil Capacity Replacement and Cost Saving.

Investment in renewable generation capacity will therefore largely be in addition to, rather than replacement for, the massive investment in fossil fuel and nuclear plant required...» — UK House of Lords, «The Economics of Renewable Energy,» Nov. 25, 2008

So if we don't know the answer as to whether we even have an «AGW» problem, or whether the AGW, if any, is on balance beneficial or detrimental to our society overall, don't you think that it is a bit premature to dictate massive cuts in our fossil fuel consumption absent cheap, reliable replacements for it?

While equally necessary, closing existing fossil fuel activity would be much harder and take longer, involving transition programs for workers and possible compensation claims from affected corporations, and requiring rapid roll - out of replacement renewable energy infrastructure.

The NAMA will reduce GHG emissions through the replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energies and will provide the conditions for income generation and new business opportunities.

According to «Fossil Energy Use in the Manufacture of Corn Ethanol», August 2002, Dr. Michael S. Graboski «72 % of the land supplying corn to wet and dry mills would need to be planted in the absence of ethanol production for ruminant feeding and corn oil replacement.

Until there are in - kind, same price replacements for the ubiquitous use of fossil fuel in society this targets the way of life of everyone.

Carbon payback time refers to the number of years it takes for the emissions saved by the replacement of fossil fuels with biofuel to offset the carbon emissions generated when the land is converted for growing the biofuel feedstock.