Sentences with phrase «rising costs of fossil fuels»
Given the rising costs of fossil fuels, this would be a PR nightmare for the generation industry, but UBS raises the possibility, echoing our story last year about how electricity business models and markets are effectively broken.
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A geothermal heat pump will save money on utility bills, especially with the rising costs of fossil fuels.
Not exact matches
Our desire to find a homegrown alternative to Mideast oil, the rising cost of oil and natural gas, and the fossil fuel - friendly mood in Washington will soon push our coal consumption through the roof.
Point # 1 is that WHATEVER the effects on our curent population, steep continuing rise in cost of fossil fuels is WONDERFUL.
Those pushing for a rising price (via a tax or cap) on emissions make the economic case that as long as the environmental costs of burning fossil fuels (or cutting forests) aren't reflected in the accounting calculations driving those activities, «burn baby burn» will remain business as usual.
, and Putin — create new industries and jobs in clean energy products and services — reduce payroll taxes — make fossil fuels include more of their real costs, including health / pollution and our mega military spending in the Middle East — AND, apply the marketplace to force real major mitigation of global warming rise.
They have done honorable work — largely figuring out how to cushion coal - state consumers and carbon - intensive industries from rising fossil fuel costs in a carbon constrained world — but the fruits of their labor have been demonized by the opposition as «cap and tax,» Rube Goldberg, etc..
Costs of generating electricity from coal and natural gas are rising as renewables penetrate the market and fossil fuel plants run less, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
These prices do not include the cost of a backup for wind and solar require, or the costs in terms of human health or rising GHG emissions from fossil fuels.
======================= It's puzzling how someone who recognises that banning DDT for the sake of the environment led to an epidemic - level rise in world malaria (Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong) has such a crude (mis) understanding of the issues in the climate debate, for instance can not see the cost / benefit argument concerning fossil fuels.
Meanwhile, as the costs of producing fossil fuels rise, those for renewables are in sharp decline (PDF).
The up - front investments are expensive, but savings will begin to exceed those costs by 2040, and even sooner if oil prices rise faster than expected, or if we factor in the costs of climate change and the impact of burning fossil fuels on public health.
Favorable energy economics are just one of solar's many benefits — including less water use, lack of requirement for a centralized grid in undeveloped regions, low cost, zero air pollution, and in providing a mitigation for the rising problem of global climate change (which is primarily driven by human fossil fuel burning).
«One of the new and fundamental messages of this report is that renewable energies are no longer subject to the vagaries of rising and falling oil prices — they are becoming generating systems of choice for increasing numbers of power companies, communities and countries irrespective of the costs of fossil fuels,» said UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.
The report, The Human Cost of Weather - Related Disasters 1995 - 2015, is intended to focus attention during the UN climate change conference — which opens in Paris on Monday − on the damage already inflicted by global warming as a consequence of rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, in turn as a consequence of the human combustion of fossil fuels and the destruction of the planet's forests.
In the latest attempt to cost the impact of rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, and the continuous rise in global average temperatures, all as a consequence of fossil fuel combustion and other human action, the economist Chris Hope of the University of Cambridge and the polar expert Kevin Schaefer of the University of Colorado have turned their sights on the Arctic.
well his two base assumptions; price of fossil fuels increase making RE more competitive and then a price on emissions of CO2 rising the cost of non RE even more.
As fossil fuels become more expensive, food costs will rise because current agricultural practices require large inputs of fossil fuel energy.
In each of these regions, solar energy production is emerging as a competitive means to generate electricity due to the gradual decline in solar electricity generation costs and the rising costs of traditional fossil fuel.
It charges a slowly rising fee on fossil fuel producers at the entry point to our economy (coal mine, gas / oil well or import terminal) but then returns 100 percent of the fee (less administrative costs) back to all consumers equally via a monthly dividend check.
«At a time of rising fossil - fuel costs and increased concern about greenhouse - gas emissions, the Stirling project would provide enough clean power to serve 278,000 homes for an entire year,» said SCE Chairman John Bryson.
A fee - and - dividend system imposes a fee on the initial sale of a fossil fuel which is then redistributed to the public; the rising cost of carbon - intensive products would, it is hoped, encourage families to keep their carbon footprints low.
But gas is a notoriously volatile commodity, and in the future, the cost of fossil fuel - based power could rise if the Obama administration's rules to curb power plant emissions take effect.