Sentences with phrase «than fossil fuel infrastructure»

The climate movement knows this — look no further than fossil fuel infrastructure resistance around the world, with some communities that have been standing up to the sector for decades.

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Of the big two, there is no doubt that Labour's manifesto is much greener than the Conservatives», although the party remains too committed to fossil fuels and high carbon infrastructure.

«Rather than invest resources in developing nineteenth - century fuels and fossil fuel infrastructure, we need to invest in renewable energy.

Investments in fossil fuel infrastructure locks us into decades more reliance on energy that is heating the planet and more expensive than clean renewables.

It would be unfortunate, to put it mildly, to spend countless trillions replacing fossil - fuel energy infrastructure only to discover that its successor is also more damaging than it need be.

Once lauded as the future of clean transportation and energy storage in a variety of other applications, hydrogen - based fuel cell systems have a great many barriers to adoption, one of which is lack of hydrogen infrastructure, and the other is the need to develop hydrogen production sources that aren't fossil fuel - based or that require more energy to produce than can be released in the fuel cell.

Nuclear fuel is 20,000 times more energy dense than fossil fuels (up to 2 million times more energy dense when we start using the Gen IV breeder reactors like the IFR); so it requires 1/20, 000 (to a 2 millionth) the amount of ports, shipping, railway and gas pipeline infrastructure.

Fossil fuel sources remain much less costly than the infrastructure necessary for capturing the sun's energy.

The technology to collect and market the natural gas is available, but rather than installing the necessary infrastructure, operators often burn excess gas at the well site, selling just the liquid fossil fuels.

Twenty - first century clean energy technologies are already being designed, built, marketed, and installed to replace more than a century's worth of entrenched fossil fuel infrastructure, and a recent report by the Department of Commerce indicates that there are nearly 2 million clean energy jobs in our economy today, with more on the way.

Rather than continuing to invest in fossil fuel infrastructure when their climate goals require them to wean off of fossil fuel reliance, the leaders say they will push toward strengthening a clean energy economy in their jurisdictions.

It is still finite, though, and eventually, we would need to develop another energy infrastructure — while facing opposition from an interested class that is even more entrenched than our fossil fuel interests.

There Are Better Ways Forward Than Fracked Natural Gas My take on this is fairly simple: There are simply better ways to invest in our energy infrastructure as we transition away from fossil fuels than expanding the use of fracked natural Than Fracked Natural Gas My take on this is fairly simple: There are simply better ways to invest in our energy infrastructure as we transition away from fossil fuels than expanding the use of fracked natural than expanding the use of fracked natural gas.

Stopping the Keystone XL pipeline is important not just because it will help stop future leaks that, judging from the track record of TransCanada's first pipeline, Keystone 1, as highlighted above, will be much larger than the spills we've seen from rail transport, but it also prevents a massive piece of essentially permanent fossil fuel infrastructure from being established that will no doubt push global warming past the point of no return, as the «terrifying math of global warming» makes startlingly clear.

There are better ways to spend public funds than facilitating the building of new fossil fuel infrastructure.