Sentences with phrase «than fossil fuels»

Support public policies that provide incentives for renewable energy rather than fossil fuel extraction.

Learn how clean energy will power our future and why it is much better than fossil fuels for our health, our wallets and our planet.

He also called for a national «renewable portfolio standard» to increase the amount of electricity produced by sources other than fossil fuels.

Forest biomass for energy can release three times more carbon than fossil fuels.

For example, rooftop solar can now provide electricity to businesses and households at a lower cost than fossil fuels and improvements in vehicle efficiency can easily pay for themselves.

He says nuclear energy is cleaner than the fossil fuel alternatives that would be needed to replace the power form the plants during the transition.

Of course there are environmental implications in the manufacture of wind turbines and the construction of wind farms, but they are much «cleaner» than the fossil fuel alternatives.

The company went further than the fossil fuel companies and conservative groups that merely promoted doubt about the risks of climate change, asserting that carbon emissions were beneficial.

This is 41 % greater than fossil fuel emissions in 1990.

While prices for biomass fuels are lower than fossil fuel prices and have generally remained stable, rapidly increasing demand may push prices up in the future.

This decision reacts to evidence showing the climate impact of some biofuels could be worse than fossil fuels.

In fact, burning biomass directly emits a bit more carbon dioxide than fossil fuels for the same amount of generated energy.

And I will say to the fossil fuel industries if you're out there, think about making your mission energy production rather than fossil fuel extraction and burning.

In fact, burning biomass emits at least a little more carbon dioxide than fossil fuels for the same amount of generated energy.

Renewable energy creates more jobs than fossil fuel extraction — moreover, they are better, safer, more rewarding jobs.

Then again, perhaps not — more than fossil fuels burned from driving in 2007, the biggest factors were increased heating and cooling demands.

It would no longer be necessary to sell sustainably generated power at a higher price than fossil fuel generated power.

Yet these industries are more labour - intensive than the fossil fuel based industries they would replace.

These plant - based fuels were originally billed as better than fossil fuels because the carbon released when they were burned was balanced by the carbon absorbed when the plants grew.

Despite claims to the contrary, most sources of clean energy are still more costly than fossil fuels.

There are two key reasons many biofuels are more polluting than fossil fuels.

The good news is that renewable energy and energy efficiency investments create far more jobs per dollar spent than fossil fuels — including natural gas.

Of course alternatives to fossil fuels cost more than fossil fuels do, provided you neglect the environmental impact of fossil fuels.

I've already noted that deforestation also releases CO2 but in much smaller quantities than fossil fuel emissions.

For the first time in 2017, global solar capacity grew faster than all fossil fuels combined, including coal, oil and gas - fired power stations.

On the supply side, there are strategies that make certain alternative sources of energy more attractive to users than fossil fuels.

This hurdle is rapidly shifting now that solar is more widely seen as a wise financial investment, in addition to being far more sustainable than fossil fuels.

Ask them to side with the children of this country rather than the fossil fuel lobbyists.

But if you look at the details of that, the capture storage facilities, transport facilities, would probably be different places than the fossil fuel carbon capture storage.

Renewable energy will become cheaper than fossil fuels with enough investment in the technology, and everyone will move over naturally!

Couple that with the great strides being made in making clean energy more desirable than fossil fuels, and we have a promising recipe for success for consumers and the environment alike.

Our electric motors have significantly fewer moving parts than fossil fuel engines, resulting in 70 % lower maintenance costs.

You may not think of trees as an alternate source of energy, but used responsibly, you can use trees to produce electricity that is cleaner and more environmentally responsible than fossil fuels.

He added that ethanol may also emit more global - warming pollutants than fossil fuels, according to the latest scientific studies.

If biomass is somehow a more efficient way to fuel mankind than fossil fuels are, I must be missing something.

It concluded that, all in all, job impacts would be positive, in part because clean energy investments are more labor - intensive than fossil fuel investments.

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.

And in any case, there is no alternative at the moment to supplying reliable and cheap base load capacity with any sources other than fossil fuels and nuclear energy.