Sentences with phrase «supplied by fossil fuels»

Decades later, 81 % of global energy is still supplied by the fossil fuels: coal, gas, and oil.

Coal Oil Natural Gas Nuclear 90 % of world's commercial energy supplied by fossil fuels.

«Heat accounts for more than half of global final energy consumption and is still primarily supplied by fossil fuels,» it notes, adding that growth over the next five years will likely be slow.

Seventy percent of our energy sources (all industry) are supplied by fossil fuels.

I would note that Alex Trembath's useful intervention to this discussion provides insight into why we can expect global energy consumption will continue to grow, and tangentially why so much of that energy will be supplied by fossil fuels without an major breakthroughs in energy technology.

If this had been supplied by fossil fuels instead, CO2 emissions would have been at least 5.5 million tonnes higher, and as much as 12 million tonnes higher.

Not exact matches

As I wrote for NOVA Next, Germany stabilized its grid and electricity supply by dialing up its fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro power, while also asking four energy - hogging aluminum smelters to dial down their power use temporarily.

Besides, as some savvy environmentalists are arguing, trying to reduce GHG emissions by chocking fossil fuel supplies — rather than reducing demand for them — is tilting at windmills.)

This offers some hope for future generations who will have to consider carefully the means by which energy is supplied as fossil fuels begin to diminish but the demands for energy increase.

This is done not only by supplying renewable energy from the closed anaerobic reactor, thus reducing or even eliminating reliance on fossil fuels, but also by replacing traditional, open, methane - producing lagoons, and by replacing power - consuming, sludge - producing aerobic WWTPs.

Meanwhile, they stand to make billions more by keeping us hooked on increasingly expensive fossil fuels — instead of developing UK clean energy and energy saving measures needed to secure power supplies, cut emissions, and stabilise fuel bills in the long - run.

Thanks to growing population and dwindling supplies, fossil fuel production per capita may peak by mid-century — ending the two centuries of unlimited growth in energy production that is at the root of modern civilization, consultant Richard Nehring writes in the journal.

The EIA says world energy consumption is likely to grow by more than 50 percent over the period 2010 to 2040, with fossil fuels supplying 80 percent of the total, despite a growth in renewables and nuclear power.

World energy consumption is forecast to increase by 44 percent from 2006 to 2030, with almost two - thirds of that coming from developing countries and fossil fuels that continue to dominate energy supply, according to the Energy Information Administration's 2009 outlook report [pdf] released today.

Is the «business as usual» approach — subsidizing fossil - fuel supply and nuclear energy and large hydro projects, maintaining low energy prices to consumers by keeping environmental and political costs «external,» propping up oil supply by every available means — part of the solution or part of the problem?

By piecing together the annual production of every major fossil fuel company since the Industrial Revolution, geographer Richard Heede has shown that nearly two - thirds of the major industrial greenhouse gas emissions have originated in just 90 companies around the world, which either emitted the carbon themselves or supplied carbon ultimately released by consumers and industrBy piecing together the annual production of every major fossil fuel company since the Industrial Revolution, geographer Richard Heede has shown that nearly two - thirds of the major industrial greenhouse gas emissions have originated in just 90 companies around the world, which either emitted the carbon themselves or supplied carbon ultimately released by consumers and industrby consumers and industry.

In spite of current energy trends moving towards green and renewable options, Alberta is planning on double its production of fossil fuels by 2030, meaning that higher supply will generate lower market rates, presenting a more affordable alternative to the American market.

Mazda isn't hedging its bets on electric power just yet, believing that until the worldwide electrical grid is predominantly powered by renewable energy, an electric vehicle's tailpipe emissions are too far offset by the dirtiness and high CO2 values of the fossil - fuelled coal, oil, and gas power plants that supply their electricity.

To be honest, I, too, have on occasion found comfort in such facile explanations for the nation's abject failure to deal with so many glaring problems, including several of interest to readers of car magazines: the pervasive failure to address global warming and finite supplies of fossil fuels; tens of thousands of road fatalities year in and year out; the burgeoning safety risk caused by in - car communications and telematics; the failure to maintain the roads we've got while creating better ones and efficient alternatives; and, of course, our continued inability to buy new Peugeots in the United States.

That will have to be met by fossil fuels, which should drive the price up based on supply and demand factors.

This would include costs like storing and monitoring nuclear waste indefinitely, CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by fossil fuels, nitrous oxides and sulfur oxides from coal degrading the environment through acid rain, maintaining a large military to protect our oil supply lines from the middle east, pollutants entering water supplies from solar panel manufacture, pollutants generated by drilling for gas, etc., etc..

The data presented by Miller et al. constrains the overall leak rate from the oil and gas supply chains — providing an independently derived aggregate estimate of fossil fuel sources of methane emissions.

Localization will help solve required transitions from high fossil fuel and nuclear energy costs and global problems created by Peak Oil.This will be done by moving quickly to mass public and commercial use of economic and greener energy supplies from solar, wind, hydro and geothermal energy sources.

Since the majority of utility - supplied electricity comes from fossil fuel sources and is by no means «carbon neutral» your strategy needs to include a source of renewable energy.

The fossil fuel supply has of coarse bean descused by IPCC but as always some disagree with the conclusions.

Realization that we must reduce the current CO2 amount has a bright side: effects that had begun to seem inevitable, including impacts of ocean acidification, loss of fresh water supplies, and shifting of climatic zones, may be averted by the necessity of finding an energy course beyond fossil fuels sooner than would otherwise have occurred.

If we allow fossil fuels and CO2 to be labelled a pollutant with a view to the world's energy supply being taken over and rationed by a «well meaning», self appointed, so called elite then we will deserve what we get.

If serious GHG reductions are to be achieved at all in this country, that goal must be accomplished through a centrally - coordinated effort managed by the EPA, one which simultaneously constrains the supply of carbon fuels and which raises their price, thus encouraging energy conservation and an eventual transition away from fossil fuels.

According to Gabe Elsner, executive director of watchdog group the Energy & Policy Institute, ALEC supplies «model» legislation to politicians at the state level who then push efforts to enact the laws as written by the group's utility and fossil fuel industry representatives.

Investments in future fossil fuel supply are predicated on an assumption of future demand that is often presented in or informed by corporate energy scenarios.

The energy supply increased immensely when the greater energy intensity in fossil fuels became available by use of the steam engine.

Most of us would not be here if it were not for the use of fossil fuels because all human activity is enabled by energy supply and limited by material science.

And it would make electricity grids unstable, leading to more frequent and widespread, costly and often fatal, brownouts and blackouts — events mercifully rare in wealthy countries but all too familiar to billions of people living in countries without comprehensive, stable electric grids supplied by stable fossil or nuclear fuels.

Cassandra Kubes, from the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), spoke of the potential to save many lives by cleaning the air — not by total transformation of the energy supply, but simply by choosing the latest and most efficient technologies to reduce polluted fossil fuel emissions.

Expansion of grid supply by construction of big new coal fired power plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.

This paper, by contrast, takes a supply - side view of CO2 emission, and generates two supply - driven emission scenarios based on a comprehensive investigation of likely long - term pathways of fossil fuel production drawn from peer - reviewed literature published since 2000.

This change will be triggered by declining fossil fuel supplies and will influence almost all aspects of our daily life.»

The fact is that if we can't greatly reduce fossil fuel use by the 2030 - 2040 range, by 2075 be will see a global average temperature rise of 3.5 to 4.0 degrees Celsius, which is also just about the time frame for world phosphate supplies to enter critical shortages that will eventually cut crop yields in half and require twice as much land and water to grow the same yield as previously.

Successful 1.9 W m − 2 scenarios are characterized by a rapid shift away from traditional fossil - fuel use towards large - scale low - carbon energy supplies, reduced energy use, and carbon - dioxide removal.

Investment in energy supply, meanwhile, would stay more or less level: fossil fuel investment would decline, but this would be offset by a 150 % increase in renewable energy supply investment by 2050.

Hydrogen burns in air, so one can easily imagine using hydrogen instead of fossil fuels to supply energy for our transportation needs that can not be met by electric trolleys and trains.

This means that to achieve a low - carbon future, nations will need to discourage fossil fuel supply growth by removing financial incentives and constraining new production.

And, because solar panels and wind turbines can only supply power when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing, those binned reactors had to be replaced by fossil fuels.

Under the guise of preventing «dangerous manmade climate change» and compensating poor countries for alleged «losses and damages» due to climate and weather caused by rich country fossil fuel use, they had planned to control the world's energy supplies and living standards, replace capitalism with a new UN-centered global economic order, and redistribute wealth from those who create it to those who want it.

They extended the Malthusian idea that population would outgrow food supply and applied it to all resources with amplification by capitalism and fossil fuel driven economies.

Years earlier, one climate researcher at the company, Henry Shaw, had called management's attention to a key conclusion of a landmark National Academy of Sciences report: global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions, not a scarcity of supply, would likely set the ultimate limit on the use of fossil fuels.

«This rollback will mean more asthma and other breathing disorders associated with air pollution, more contamination of water supplies by residue from mining fossil fuels and more money wasted on infrastructure for a dying energy industry,» Francis said.

At present, 80 % of the global energy supply is provided by fossil fuels.

This shows that intermittencies of wind can be met by supplemental fossil fuel supplies.

Like others, I have called for renewable power to be used both to replace the electricity produced by fossil fuel and to expand the total supply, displacing the oil used for transport and the gas used for heating fuel.