Sentences with phrase «with fossil»

Can renewable energy keep up with fossil fuels?

So does it not follow that the same invalidation happens to scientists who promote man - caused global warming when anything remotely associated with the fossil fuel industry is seen in their vicinity?

Rather than replacing this energy source with fossil fuels, thus boosting carbon emissions and encouraging runaway climate change, the world can use this opportunity to pursue a much safer electricity sector powered largely by wind, solar, and geothermal energy.

It does not release carbon that would otherwise stay stored underground, as occurs with fossil fuel use, but when starch, such as corn, is used for ethanol production much energy, including fossil - fuel energy, is consumed in the process of fertilizing, plowing, and harvesting.

Basically, the idea that all the stuff we use / consume that's made with fossil fuels has a certain carbon emission associated with it.

If lawmakers fail to act soon, four nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania will be replaced with fossil fuels and emissions will rise the equivalent of adding six million cars to the road.

Participants reviewed the motivations for the new PAGES CoralHydro2k project, temperature estimates from a variety of geochemical proxies and their uncertainties, the challenges with fossil corals, novel proxies for global biogeochemical cycles, and data management and sample exchange.

Reducing fossil fuel use has many additional benefits including reducing air pollution (and greenhouse gases) and decreasing the environmental impacts associated with fossil fuel production and use.

The remaining generation mix was designed to keep nuclear and imported hydropower at the Baseline Scenario levels, with fossil fuel generation dispatched to meet the remaining load.

GM, Ford, and Chrysler have been deceiving the American people for decades with this fossil fuel addiction scare and we, the American people, should not tolerate their deceptions any longer.

Renewable Energy World For at least the last 40 years, since the oil shocks in the 1970s, dealing with fossil fuel subsidies has been on the international agenda.

Any association of anything remotely connected with the fossil fuel industry automatically invalidates any criticism a skeptic scientist might offer to the idea of man - caused global warming.

Renewable technologies are already economically competitive with fossil fuels in a number of countries without subsidies.

Because this energy can be dispatched at any time it is needed; this form of solar with thermal energy storage directly competes with fossil fuels.

The mainstream green groups, these lefties argue, spent way too much time compromising with fossil - fuel interests in order to craft a byzantine cap - and - trade proposal that could placate enough swing voters in Congress.

«Solar is poised to compete on cost with fossil fuel generated power, so it is time governments priced solar power the same as fossil fuel power,» CEO John Grimes said in a statement.

But please, no more force feeding of losers like windmills and solar panels and no more myth - making about how tomorrow they'll be able to compete on an even basis with fossil fuels if today we just keep subsidizing them.

They might very well become cost - competitive with fossil fuels without subsidies (and they already are in some locations.)

Some people say that solar is better than fossil because it «creates jobs», but if there were no problems with fossil fuels, why not just use them and just mail some random people a check every month?

Algae represent one of many available biodiesel feedstocks that can be cost - competitive with fossil fuels, he explained.

We've crossed this epic milestone just weeks ahead of the Global Divestment Mobilisation, when people all over the world will be taking action to highlight the moral urgency of cutting ties with the fossil fuel industry and pushing their institutions to divest.

This week, actresses Amy Smart, Eva Amurri Martino, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Dawn Olivieri joined the Sierra Club in an online video asking California Governor Jerry Brown to make a «clean break» with fossil fuels, and commit to replacing the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station with 100 percent clean energy.

Since 2002, every grant Dr. Soon received originated with fossil fuel interests, according to documents received from the Smithsonian Institution in response to Greenpeace FOIA requests.

From universities, to faith, to health, to local government and pension funds, as we pass the «100 commitments» mark, there's now a powerful range of institutions that have publicly committed to cut their ties with the fossil fuel industry.

The new goal, put forth at a tripartite summit meeting this week by the leaders of Canada, the United States and Mexico, might well mark a turning point away from the continent's outmoded obsession with fossil - fuel independence, and toward a shared investment in a clean energy revolution.

But with fossil fuels, the issue is no longer just about siting, choosing among sources carefully, or mitigating impacts after the fact; we must stop expanding their use immediately and categorically, and transition away from them over time.

One day maybe the price of renewables will be comparable with fossil fuels and maybe somebody will invent large - scale storage.

By comparison with fossil fuels, renewables have lots of practical disadvantages.

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.

This was due to the inherent nature of wind energy, and the realities of necessarily continuously balancing the grid, on a second - by - second basis, with fossil - fuel - generated electricity (typically gas).

When you use energy or products manufactured with fossil fuels, you generate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.

For a minority of the do - nothing group, it is simply a matter of financial self - interest associated with the fossil fuel industry.

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 →

The Carbon Tax Center is often asked why a carbon tax is needed; wouldn't removing tax subsidies be sufficient to let efficiency and renewables compete on even terms with fossil fuels?

He said there are «whole sections» of the tobacco court decision where «you can remove the word «tobacco» and put in the word «carbon,» and remove the word «health» and put in the word «climate,» and the parallel with the fossil fuel industry climate denial campaign is virtually perfect.»

Although the balancing of renewable power sources with fossil fuels is widely regarded as a temporary fix that's not suited for larger shares of renewable energy, most other technological strategies (described below) can only partially reduce the need for balancing capacity.

Splits are also useful when installed in conjunction with a fossil fuel furnace for a dual fuel application for efficient operation in colder climates.

Climate Change: Study estimates that nuclear energy leads to substantially fewer pollution - related deaths and greenhouse gas emissions compared with fossil - fuel sources

Right - wing collaboration with the fossil fuel industry is obvious, but connivance of liberals is widespread.

A full lifecycle analysis of Bio-SNG production undertaken by North Energy Associates found that for many types of feedstock, the lifecycle CO2e savings of Bio-SNG compared with fossil fuel alternatives are typically ~ 90 %.

If you're a student, you can call on your university to break ties with the fossil fuel industry and stand up for our future.

Carbon Emissions Set to Rise Steadily with Fossil Fuel Use But, IEA indicates, Ways to Halt Climate Change Do Exist 21 November 2000

But solar and wind have trouble competing with fossil fuels, because it's just not a fair market.

When nuclear plants are cancelled or closed, they are replaced almost entirely with fossil fuels, and so this is bad news for clean air and the climate.

The cost of solar energy, however, has plummeted in recent years and is already cost competitive with fossil fuel - based grid power in 10 U.S. states.

The Cabinet member responsible replied that she was happy to be able to announce that, recognising the growing financial risks associated with fossil fuels, the Council would commit to transferring over time any current investments in these «traditional» energy sources.

What's more, bio-CCS projects can share the infrastructure for transporting and storing CO2 with fossil CCS installations.

For years, environmentalists have been attacking Soon for taking money from energy companies with fossil fuel interests, the only update the Times story added was that Soon allegedly did not disclose this to academic journals he was being published in.

The competing theories are (there was / is no theory competition) are: 1) The «late veneer theory» (the late veneer theory is connected with the fossil fuel theory, where a tiny amount of CO2 is recycled in the upper mantle) vs / or 2) The deep core CH4 theory (See the late Nobel prize winnings, Astrophysics» Thomas Gold's book «Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels», where there is a large continuous input of CH4 and CO2 into the biosphere from CH4 that is extrude from the core of the earth as it solidifies, which explains Humlum et al's CO2 phase analysis result paradox and roughly 50 different geological paradoxes / anomalies) as to the origin of the earth's atmosphere, oceans, and «natural» gas / crude oil.

To conclude, the good news is that we are living through a paradigm shift whereby clean energy competes financially with fossil fuels.