Sentences with phrase «with fossil fuel production»

The company also admitted that its own products were to blame for climate change: It stated: «With fossil fuel production being the major source of CO2 in the atmosphere a forward looking approach by the energy industry is clearly desirable, seeking to play its part with Governments and others in the development of appropriate measures to tackle the problem... The energy industry needs to consider how it should play its part.»

The human population, which has risen in lockstep with fossil fuel production, will likely peak more or less in sync with these fuels.

And Texas — a state practically synonymous with fossil fuel production — installed more wind turbines than any other state in 2014.

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.

Not exact matches

That means making sure prices cover not only the direct costs of supplying energy but also the environmental externalities associated with production and use of fossil fuels — the waste water (which increases a variety of risks), and the broader side effects from vehicle use — congested roads, traffic deaths, and so on.

In plain terms, we are choosing to penalize our own energy industry with severe financial measures, when other jurisdictions like the U.S. are slashing taxes and red tape, rejecting carbon taxes, and calling for expanded fossil fuel production due to growing global demand.

Moving forward with a campaign pledge to unravel former President Obama's sweeping plan to curb global warming, Trump today is set to sign an executive order that will suspend, rescind or flag for review more than a half - dozen measures in an effort to boost domestic energy production in the form of fossil fuels.

«This is certainly true for fossil fuel - related approvals, where there is a clear causal connection between each phase of the fossil fuel supply chain (production, transportation, processing, and end - use) and the emissions from these activities can be estimated with existing tools and data.»

Solar is already competitive with conventional energy in many parts of Germany and will keep getting cheaper, while conventional fossil fuels are more likely to increase in production costs, Channell said.

Development of cost - effective means to separate carbon dioxide during the production process will improve this advantage over other fossil fuels and enable the economic production of gas resources with higher carbon dioxide content that would be too costly to recover using current carbon capture technologies, Tour said.

A leading ecologist with decades of experience in the effects of disturbance on ecosystems, Woodwell shows that diverse industrial activities — from nuclear power production to fossil - fuel burning to contemporary agricultural practices — are affecting the chemical processes that underpin all life on Earth.

In response to another question from Sanders, Zinke said he supported extracting fossil fuel from public lands along with supporting wind and solar power, calling for an «all - of - the - above» approach to energy production.

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

Coming back to the problems with the study's methodology, perhaps the study's biggest failing is that it considers only the dollar value of subsidies to fossil fuel producers — not their real - world impact on fossil fuel production and investment decision - making.

Their continued support for fossil fuel production marries bad economics with potentially disastrous consequences for the climate.

«There's no doubt at all that the BLM leases significant areas for the production of fossil fuels, and there are certainly greenhouse gases associated with the production and consumption of those fuels,» Muller said, adding that federal government is trying to reduce some of those emissions.

Air and water pollution from fossil fuel extraction and use have high costs in human health, food production, and natural ecosystems, killing more than 1,000,000 people per year and affecting the health of billions of people [232], [234], with costs borne by the public.

A constant fossil fuel production rate requires increasing energy input, but also use of more land, water, and diluents, with the production of more waste [142].

Humanity must become aware of the urgent need to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources to avoid the catastrophic scenario of using coal as an energy source as well as to replace the current model of development for sustainable development, which, by reverse logistics, with the reuse, recovery and recycling of materials, thus reaching the so - called closed production cycle, could delay the exhaustion of natural resources of the planet Earth.

One article I was recently reading stated that hemp seed oil produces a cleaner buring fuel (nearly 90 % burn, with considerably less ash and CO2 production) than any fossil fuel (33 % burn at the most efficient)

One article I was recently reading stated that hemp seed oil produces a cleaner buring fuel (nearly 90 % burn, with considerably less ash and CO2 production) than any fossil fuel (33 % burn at the most efficient) and was actually banned because the oil industry (and the rope industry, as hemp weave made a stronger and less expensive rope than current materials) decided to push their congresscritters to close it down because hemp could make Marijuana.

Incidentally, with the current fossil fuel reserves estimated to last for at least another 150 years, we certainly are not even close to reaching the same level of greenhouse gases any time soon, that existed when the production of biomass was at its peak.

But the price of oil never rose as was predicted, so the solar plant never became competitive with fossil fuel - based energy production (Carrizo sold its electricity to the local utility for between three and four cents a kilowatt - hour, while a minimum price of eight to ten cents a kilowatt - hour would be necessary in order for Carrizo to make a profit).»

The reason a listening tour is the next step, and not a pre-packaged batch of legislation or other steps, is to build on the common ground across a wide range of Americans on energy thrift, innovation and fair play (meaning policies that distort the playing field, with mandated corn ethanol production and tax breaks for fossil fuel companies prime examples).

Human alteration of environments produces multiple effects, some advantageous to societies, such as enhanced food production, and some detrimental, like environmental pollution with toxic chemicals, excess nutrients and carbon emissions from fossil fuels, and the loss of wildlife and their habitats.

The idea that you could ever replace the rate of utilization of energy from fossil fuels, which has been estimated as consuming 400 years worth of photosynthesis per year, with a fraction of the annual photosynthetic harvest that does not impinge on food production is part of today's magical thinking, along with reducing deficits by cutting taxes while continuing to increase spending.

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Now, with oil prices crashing while the cost of production does not; with campaigners scoring victories from the Paris climate agreement to major institutional divestment from fossil fuels; and with increasingly viable competition from electrified transportation, efficiency and renewables — oil companies may be facing a unique confluence of uphill challenges.

The current fossil fuel energy pricing reality along with new exploration and production technology is providing an economic basis for an immediate, practical transition and conversion to greener energy supplies of wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower.

There is a raging battle today about the size of fossil fuel reserves and resources, with «peakists» claiming that we are already at or near peak production of both oil and coal because the amounts of economically recoverable fuels in the ground are more limited than the fossil fuel industry has admitted.

The state government, which is committed to a 50 - 50 split between renewable energy and fossil fuel energy production by 2030, has endorsed the project, with Energy Minister Anthony Lynham turning the first sod.

The GHGI represents lifecycle GHG emissions associated with the facility divided by lifecycle emissions for production and use of an LHV - equivalent amount of fossil fuel - derived products displaced — i.e., a GHGI of 1 would represent lifecycle GHG emissions equivalent to that of fossil - fuel derived products.

And this same period saw the expansion of fossil fuel burning from the traditional family needs like heating / cooking, then on to quickly power - up both modern modern agriculture and also the industrial - mass production revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale generation of ubiquitous electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.

Western Europe with much less fossil fuel use than ever before, produces 50 % of its electricity from nuclear reactors and could provide the stimulus for others to re-instigate their nuclear production.

Carbon Tracker compared demand for fossil fuels in a 1.75 C world — the mid-point of the Paris Agreement — with demand in a 2.7 C world, looking at oil, gas and coal production to 2035 and capital investment to 2025.

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 %.

It is widely believed that in the future, renewable energy production will allow modern societies to become independent from fossil fuels, with wind and solar energy having the largest potential.

However, Member States who fulfil certain conditions relating to their interconnectivity or their share of fossil fuels in electricity production and GDP per capita in relation to the EU - 27 average, have the option to temporarily deviate from this rule with respect to existing power plants.

Achieving zero net carbon emissions is possible, even with continued burning of fossil fuels, said Dr. Patrinos, but only with the development of advanced biofuel production processes, and carbon capture and disposal or recycling technologies.

With escalating energy demand and declining fossil fuel supplies — and more efficient production capabilities — it will very quickly be cost competitive.

«Even today, with the global warming danger level at a critical phase, Defendants continue to engage in massive fossil fuel production and execute long - term business plans to continue and even expand their fossil fuel production for decades into the future.»

Figure 1: Observed global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning and cement production compared with IPCC emissions scenarios.

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.

Discover SEI's work on aligning fossil fuel production with global climate goals.

With a renewal of the wind production tax credit, which is designed to establish parity with the subsidies for fossil fuels, growth could be even faster in the years ahead, creating thousands of new jWith a renewal of the wind production tax credit, which is designed to establish parity with the subsidies for fossil fuels, growth could be even faster in the years ahead, creating thousands of new jwith the subsidies for fossil fuels, growth could be even faster in the years ahead, creating thousands of new jobs.

Another complication is that the rare earth elements required to sustain renewable energy production and storage are, in a similar fashion to fossil fuels, heavily geographically concentrated, with obvious potential for geopolitical tension:

It was found that the resultant Hubbert curves were generally in good agreement with total fossil fuel, coal and natural gas production predictions.

«Action taken to increase Australia's capacity for fossil fuel production — such as increasing export capacity or commissioning new coal mines — is difficult to reconcile with the goals of the Paris Agreement,» the report says.

J&D also note that by transitioning to more efficient technologies (for example, battery electric vehicles over the internal combustion engine, electric heat pumps for homes, and solar thermal energy with storage to provide baseload power rather than fossil fuels and nuclear) we can actually reduce global power production by 30 % compared to business - as - usual.

Compare environmental impacts (production, transportation, etc.) of a high - density fossil fuel source with Solar PV technology that enables clean electricity to be generated in remote rural areas.