Sentences with phrase «using cheaper fossil fuels»

European business will complain bitterly that it is being regulated and suffering higher energy costs than American, Chinese and Indian competitors, who can carry on using cheaper fossil fuels with impunity.

If you are so concerned about the world's poor, then I think it would be only fair if the rich countries (who created the mess) went cold turkey on carbon so the poor still can use cheap fossil fuel.

The ugly truth about climate change is that unless we make green energy much cheaper, we (and especially the developing world, including China and India) will continue to use cheap fossil fuels.

While China, India, Russia and Brazil keep growing by using cheap fossil fuels to become world economic giants, Democrats, and their radical (lunatic?)

Not exact matches

While it is becoming cheaper and cheaper to produce and use solar energy, the cost of transitioning from fossil fuels is still very real.

Natural gas from oil wells is one of the cheapest and cleanest fossil fuels today, used widely to heat homes as well as in manufacturing and to produce electricity.

There are several alternatives to leather which are cheaper, but several of them also use fossil fuels (plastics) and their processing isn't any better.

Fossil fuel is a cheap method to produce energy, and it will be used unless another technology is able to produce energy cheaper.

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

If the main goal is to achieve a power source that could replace fossil fuels, we suspect the money would be better spent on renewable sources of energy that are likely to be cheaper and quicker to put into wide use.

The introduction of machines powered by cheap and easily accessible fossil fuels led to a decline in the use of wind power, but since reserves of these fuels are finite and as the world becomes more conscious of the pollution generated by these fuels, focus has turned once again to tapping this free source of energy.

... If you can make solar panels cheaper than fossil fuels by 2040, then people will willingly use them.»

China is cutting back its use of coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, even though it's cheap.

Again, these technologies are even cheaper if we accurately incoporate the externalities of fossil fuel use and exploitation into the cost of consumption.

They take a pragmatic view of fossil fuel use in the interim — especially in the developing world where the cheapest energy is a key to economic growth and social progress.

Fossil fuels are and will continue to be cheaper, easier to use, more portable, and more dense than any combination of solar / batteries or wind / batteries.

In fact it may be a reason not to be overly concerned about China - they must be well aware that at the rate they keep using up more and more fossil fuels, they are going to get to a point where they're not longer cheap and easily available very quickly.

Similarly, imposing a strict mitigation strategy curtailing fossil fuel use without suitable cheap and abundant alternative sources would likely lead to economic disaster.

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.

These sources of energy and efficiency technologies are in many cases cheaper than fossils, have steep cost curves, produce a positive ROI for businesses and consumers, are anti-inflationary because they don't use a commodity fuel or consume less fuel, have the ability to decentralize and stabilize energy supply.

This does 2 things — you end up paying twice for generation, despite any claims of being cheap and secondly if your aim is the reduction of co2 you are not succeeding in that either, since u using fossil fuels when the suns not shining or the winds not blowing.

Use of cheap, readily available fossil fuel is a huge benefit we take for granted (until gas prices surge).

Great article, the mindset of using fossil fuels has created its own problems when it was cheap and abundant.

We benefit now from using cheap and abundant fossil fuels, and we use the atmosphere as a free dump for the waste products.

Global Warming might decrease but people would die all over the planet unable to gain the benefits provided by the use of fossil fuels (Mainly cheap power and low cost transportation of goods) and the results such a change would have on the world's economy.

By the use of cheap, plentiful, and reliable energy from fossil fuels, we have made our environment cleaner.

Their interests are best advances by economic expansion from continued use cheap, affordable energy from fossil fuels.

23 Fossil Fuels Advantages Relatively Cheap High energy density Fossil Fuels Advantages Relatively Cheap High energy density Used by a wide variety of engines and devices Extensive distribution network in place Disadvantages Nonrenewable - will deplete soon Combustion by - products pollute — acid rain and contain greenhouse gases Extraction can damage the environment Coal - fired power plants require large amounts of fuel

Then use that carbon revenue to help transition other parts of society away from fossil fuels where it is cheaper to do so.

Fossil fuel peaker plants are not necessarily cheaper than using solar to generate peak energy.

What I believe is that as long as the world remains in a state of economic crisis, there is not going to be any political action which exacerbates this crisis, which a reduction of the use of cheap fossil fuels would certainly do.

As a scientist, I know that global warming is real, but as a person, I want to get into my car and have as much power as possible, and I want to heat my house toasty warm in winter, and I want to cool it in summer, using fossil fuels because they are relatively cheap and wonderfully convenient.

Reducing the amount of energy used in buildings is widely regarded as the cheapest and easiest way to lower dependency on fossil fuels and reduce emissions of associated greenhouse gasses.

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.

Developing economical fossil fuel alternatives is the only rational solution to global warming because countries such as China and India will use the cheapest fuel, period.

Therefore I am convinced that we have to develop cheaper low carbon technology because as long as fossil fuels are cheaper they will be used.

over the 20th C; the cleanest environments are in the countries that are the most heavily invested in fossil fuel use; it's now easier and cheaper to fly half - way around the world than it used to be to have a 60 minute phone conversation over the same distance.

By failing to support the goal of a transition to low emissions he shows he is incapable of providing any truly compelling reason to greatly expand the use of nuclear power and especially for using it to replace fossil fuels, ie his arguments look like one part of a broader anti-environmentalist, anti-renewables agenda, one that will not admit the full and true costs of the supposedly cheap and 100 % reliable, mostly fossil fuel based legacy electricity systems.