Sentences with phrase «than renewables»

We provide more than renewable energy; we create opportunities for improved socio - economic wellbeing.

It seems that any honest person would put down the electricity price rises to causes other than renewables.

If conventional energy production is more than five or twelve times greater than renewable energy production, then in fact renewable energy enjoys a greater level of subsidy than conventional energy.

For the lower values, the average yearly investments are smaller than the renewable power sector investments reported for 2009.

Meanwhile, natural gas also is responsible for providing more energy than all renewables combined.

There's a lot more to green technology than renewable energy.

Rather, the criticism has to be that tar - sand oil is worse than renewable energy sources that we ought to be developing, like solar, wind and geothermal.

Can someone explain why natural gas is a better solution than renewables.

It is like «blowing against a high wind» to try to explain that dense energy sources which are reliable and affordable are far better for humanity than renewables.

The huge industry dependent on fossil fuels has more to lose by several orders of magnitude than the renewable power business.

That's more than nuclear, and more than all renewables combined.

Failure to do that amounts to a massive public subsidy to fossil fuels, which is why they appear to be (but actually are not) «cheaper» than renewable energy.

SolarCoin chose solar rather than another renewable technology because investment in solar panels is easier than in wind turbines, for example.

The average U.S. price of coal and natural gas power is still cheaper than renewables at $ 65 a megawatt - hour, compared with wind at $ 80 and photovoltaic solar — generating electricity from sunlight — at $ 107.

Level premiums are usually higher than renewable premiums in the first few years of the policy, but lower in later years.

HELE coal - fired generation mitigates more CO2 emissions than renewables per dollar of investment.

In contrast to today's research, this study said nuclear and fossil - fired power stations had much better EROIs than renewable sources.

Level premiums are usually higher than renewable premiums in the first few years of the policy, but lower in later years.

Across these MDBs, there were fewer natural gas power generation projects than renewables projects, and natural gas power - generation had a lower overall associated volume of finance compared to the total for all renewables.

In fact, cheap gas displaces, on average, more than twice as much coal than renewables have in ERCOT.

Fossil fuels still receive six times more subsidies than renewables.

Replacing old boilers and insulating roofs, while less attractive in PR terms than renewables, can also offer big savings.

Q: But you said that the gas industry had been faster off the mark than the renewables sector in reacting to Fukushima.

Direct air capture and small - scale biochar pyrolyzers fit this assembly - line model better, but there is no reason to expect these technologies to come down cost curves more quickly than their renewable complementors.

This plan limits uninhibited growth and certain technologies that might be cheaper than renewable resources.

That was largely what sold me, along with the realisation that nuclear power was actually less unsafe and less environmentally unfriendly even than renewables.

Fossil fuels — coal, oil, and natural gas — do substantially more harm than renewable energy sources by most measures, including air and water pollution, damage to public health, wildlife and habitat loss, water use, land use, and global warming emissions.

These plants emit 15 times more carbon dioxide than renewable energy systems and twice as much CO2 as gas - fired power plants.

Fossil fuels are subsidized between five and ten times more than renewables globally right now.

-- renewables have smaller carbon impacts than nukes, while beyond that point, nukes have smaller impacts than renewables.

I deliberately do not argue directly for the interests of the modern coal industry and I consistently champion the development of gas reserves, which is a far bigger threat to the coal - mining industry than renewable energy can ever be.

The credits under the ZEC program, they say, are little different than renewable energy credits widely accepted as a part of state RPS programs.

Fossil fuels are already more costly than renewable energy, and that includes coal.

It also contends that natural gas exploration has a lower impact on the land than renewables, as «Wind and solar plants, by contrast, require enormous amounts of land.»

This means that total consumption of fossil fuel energies grew more than 3 times faster (9.6 GWh to 3 GWh) than renewables did between 1980 and 2012.

Wave energy is alluring because, due to water's density, waves and tides can easily generate more electricity than renewables such as wind and solar power.

New nuclear plants are more expensive and take longer to build than renewable energy sources like wind or solar.

Within a few sentences, Roberts claimed that nuclear is more subsidized than renewables; that unreliable sources of energy like solar and wind are more reliable than nuclear; and that nuclear isn't really clean energy.

In your new book, Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change, you argue that «urbanism is the foundation for a low carbon future,» and the most cost effective solution to climate change, even more so than renewable energy.

Today, fossil fuels seem cheaper than renewables only because we subsidize them.

Last updated 5 June 2017 Low emissions coal in Asia reduces more CO2 emissions than renewable investment in Western Europe.

Because policymakers still regard coal as more affordable than renewables, Southeast Asia's industrialisation continues to consume large amounts of it.