Sentences with phrase «viable energy source»

As the technology involved in solar power improves and costs come down, it will be an increasingly viable energy source.

However, purifying biological products to usable levels raises production costs beyond what most people will pay for, but with a new molecular control system, researchers expect to engineer more robust microbes and increase biofuel yields, making living organisms a more viable energy source.

Similarly, while I doubt that nuclear power is ever going to prove an economically viable energy source, even in the presence of high carbon taxes, I have no problem with mining and exporting uranium, subject to the usual environmental safeguards needed for mining operations in general.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Entergy this month announced plans to phase out and close Indian Point in Westhchester County, but opponents of the plan insist there isn't a viable energy source to replace the power needs for the metropolitan area.

But to pay for ITER — which aims to produce a self - sustaining fusion reaction, or «burning plasma,» and prove that fusion is a viable energy source — the United States may have to sacrifice the very community of researchers who would use the machine when it is ready.

I have great hopes of seeing fusion become a viable energy source within my life time.

In order for coal to be a viable energy source in the future, the industry must develop cleaner processes.

Our analysis, and those of independent agencies, nonetheless confirm the view that all viable energy sources will be essential for expanding economies and rising living standards.

Wind power, a viable energy source that costs far less than nuclear and coal power and contributes almost no pollutants to the environment, seems to many of us to be almost ideal.

The hydropower plant in Iffezheim proves that renewable energy is a viable energy source.»