Sentences with phrase «than the fossil fuel alternatives»

A study projects 130 future cancer deaths from the meltdowns at the reactors in Fukushima last year, but does that suggest nuclear power is safer than fossil fuel alternatives?

Technology policy can make clean energy cheaper, but not necessarily cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives, particularly existing coal power plants whose capital costs are already sunk.

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.

Not exact matches

Back in the petroleum - challenged 1970s, alternative energy of all sorts — solar, wind, geothermal, and anything cleaner and environmentally friendlier than fossil fuels — was the wave of the future and hence the stuff of entrepreneurial dreams.

Biofuels are widely considered a better environmental alternative than fossil fuels.

(5) reduction in transportation sector emissions through increased transportation system and vehicle efficiency or use of transportation fuels that have lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions that are substantially lower than those attributable to fossil fuel - based alternatives;

As such the paper serves as a complement, rather than an alternative, to other methods of attributing climatic change to human activity (fossil fuel burning).

The Model S exudes the benefits an electric car has over fossil - fuelled alternatives; Supercharger network makes it more usable than ever

Advocates say the carbon footprint of bioplastics is better than fossil fuel - derived alternatives, which is true, but as «Life Without Plastic» points out, there's the added issue of supporting genetically modified corn production, which currently provides most material for bioplastics.

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

Cost of these alternative sources are cheaper than continuing to use irreplaceable fossil fuels or dangerous (both materially and policically) radioactive materials.

In its report on next year's Pentagon budget, the House Armed Services Committee banned the Defense Department from making or buying an alternative fuel that costs more than a «traditional fossil fuel.»

The point of the policy is to (1) make fossil fuels more expensive than clean alternatives and (2) provide incentives for eliminating emissions.

What is needed, more than ever before, is administrative leadership that goes to instruct societies of humans to depend much less on fossil - fuels, and make way for renewable energy alternatives.

Solar power has lots of potential as an alternative to fossil fuels, but some of the things we use it for make more sense than others: From solar - powered food carts, airplanes, and vending machines to solar - powered dog sweaters and beehives, read on to see which innovations are truly bright ideas — and which ones are a little dim.

Until indirect land use change is fully taken into account, Europe will continue to subsidise an alternative energy that is no better than the fossil fuels it is designed to replace.»

«Along with new policies that spur competition in several other countries, this Chinese dynamic has led to record - low announced prices of solar PV and onshore wind, which are now comparable or even lower than new - built fossil fuel alternatives.

Deploying near - term technology solutions (efficiency and operational measures and alternative fuels with lower lifecycle emissions than fossil jet fuel);

6) Transition from Fossil to Renewable Fuels The critical issue is that we are rapidly depleting light crude oil faster than discoveries, and faster than the transition to alternative fFuels The critical issue is that we are rapidly depleting light crude oil faster than discoveries, and faster than the transition to alternative fuelsfuels.

Bio-SNG (Synthetic Natural Gas) delivered via the gas grid offers CO2 lifecycle savings of up to 90 % compared with fossil fuel alternatives, and offer sa more cost - effective solution than electricity for carbon abatement in transport applications, according to a new... Read more →

Summing up the lack of forward planning about wind turbines physicists and environmental activist, John Droz, jr, warns, «just because a power source is an alternative, or a renewable, does NOT automatically mean that it is better than any conventional or fossil fuel source.»

The authors contend the world's economies are heavily dependent on fossil fuels because such fuels are and will continue to be safer, less expensive, more reliable, and of vastly greater supply than alternative fuels such as wind and solar.

Bio-SNG (Synthetic Natural Gas) delivered via the gas grid offers CO2 lifecycle savings of up to 90 % compared with fossil fuel alternatives, and offer sa more cost - effective solution than electricity for carbon abatement in transport applications, according to a new feasibility study published by National Grid (UK), the North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) and Centrica.

The analyses published in Nordhaus (2008)[2] show the «cost competitive alternative to fossil fuels» policy (called «Low - cost backstop policy») is far better than the «Optimal carbon price» policy.

Picking up on Web Hub Telescope's frequent refrain: fossil fuel depletion and AGW together are sufficient threats that humans should continue to develop alternative energy supplies and be prepared to deploy them more massively than we have to date.

(2) We're going to be running out of fossil fuels anyway in the next few centuries; without alternatives, global economic prosperity will be endangered much sooner than that.

The question remains: Is Big Oil's investment in algae biofuels based on confidence in a credible alternative to fossil fuels, or is it nothing more than a public relations stunt?

In accord with those values, we now move that the University makes a binding public commitment to phase out, at the least, over no more than five years, all investments in fossil fuel companies listed in the Carbon Tracker Top 200, seeking where advisable alternative investments in renewable energy.

If fossil power is cheap enough that there are only x % households in fuel poverty (Wiki: In the UK, fuel poverty is said to occur when in order to heat its home to an adequate standard of warmth a household needs to spend more than 10 % of its income to maintain an adequate heating regime), but the alternative carbon - free power increases the percentage of households by 10 % there are negative consequences to not using fossil power.

Polls show that the American public is more than ready for alternative energy, so why are we still almost completely dependent on fossil fuels?

But capping emissions on a fixed schedule would produce its own uncertainties: if alternatives to fossil fuels (e.g., renewables, efficiencies, carbon sequestration) materialized more slowly than planned, demand would not be met and price rises would ensue.

For decades the climate alarm movement has been pushing «solutions» that would handicap fossil fuels rather than make alternative energy more competitive — that is, cheaper without costly subsidies.

Taylor dismissed the idea that his group pushed for the measure because it has accepted money from fossil - fuel firms: «The people who are saying that are trying to take attention away from the real issue — that alternative energy, renewable energy, is more expensive than conventional energy.»

The energy debate often doesn't stretch much further than fossil fuels and nuclear power, but there are a host of alternative technologies in the pipeline.

This Pollyanna view of fossil fuel alternatives and efficiency, which makes going green seem cheap and easy — little more than the cost of «a postage stamp a day» — has provided the justification for green - policy advocacy that has overwhelmingly focused on pollution regulations and carbon pricing while ignoring serious investment in energy research and development.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

says Rod, >... unrestricted gaseous waste dumping into our shared atmosphere is a bad idea, especially when there is a lower energy cost alternative that can provide even more reliable power than fossil fuels can.

PS — I happen to believe that there are many good reasons to believe that unrestricted gaseous waste dumping into our shared atmosphere is a bad idea, especially when there is a lower energy cost alternative that can provide even more reliable power than fossil fuels can.

But fossil fuel companies, as well as the automakers, have fought tooth and nail to block cleaner alternatives, so for a long time, Americans — who are still responsible for more carbon emissions per person than anywhere else in the world — didn't have much choice.

There are more emissions from the total Corn Ethanol production sequence and use as an alternative and additive to fossil fuels than if ordinary fossil originated fuels were just used to do the job.

Natural gas is a fossil fuel whose emissions contribute to global warming, making it a far less attractive climate solution than lower - and zero - carbon alternatives such as energy efficiency and renewable energy.

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.

Nuclear fission, as you all know better than I, as a long term alternative to fossil fuels, depends on development and wide use of nuclear breeder reactors with concomitant problems of proliferation of atomic weapons materials.

This speaker put forth as an alternative the work of Willie Soon, who has been paid more than $ 1 million by fossil fuel interests.

I don't believe we'll burn enough fossil fuel to cause catastrophic warming before alternative energy sources make the Holy Hydrocarbon Bond more valuable as structure than for its inherent energy.

Cardayre argues that LS9's biofuels offer several benefits that make them more attractive as an alternative to fossil fuels than do ethanol - derived fuels, including higher cost - efficiency and lower energy consumption in production (65 % less energy).

With more than a touch of irony, a motorcyclist who spent about 20 years as an off - shore oil driller is demonstrating that there are alternatives to fossil fuels.

* we have few alternatives to baseline electric generation other than fossil fuel — with the exception of nukes, and events in Japan have shaken my confidence in them.

In the meantime because society is not resilient to current extreme weather I think that in addition to funding research for cheaper fossil fuel alternatives we should be spending money on adapting to extreme weather rather than subsidizing any current technology renewable energy.

But perhaps the greatest downside is using up a finite supply of economically recoverable fossil fuels faster than is prudent without a cheaper alternative ready to take its place.