He said the UK needed a mix of renewables, new nuclear and fossil fuel energy as "a large slice of our current generating capacity shuts down".
The costs of development and production of fossil fuel energy have been underwritten with our tax dollars to the benefit of a few traditional energy companies.
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Two well-known cynics, David Pimentel of Cornell and Tad Patzek of UC, Berkeley, calculate that producing a gallon of corn ethanol consumes 29% more fossil fuel energy than the ethanol displaces.
Most people know that the United States is the biggest user of fossil-fuel energy, but few realise that it is also the largest user of non-fossil-fuel energy and by a wide margin.
Thus the electric car is harvesting in terms of well-to-wheel miles only about 27% of the original fossil fuel energy, so not that much better than the standard car running on petrol or diesel.
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So when we pursue energy independence, when we continue to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by increasing domestic production of fossil fuel energy but other forms of energy, we enhance our security and protect America's future in that way.
Thus, using a Steve Jobs phrase, without some sort of support, even an insanely great new energy technology cannot be sold if it costs even a small amount more then fossil fuel generated energy.
Nuclear fission avoids using large quantities of fossil fuel for energy but is very contentious because it produces radioactive waste.
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In fact, it is now positioned as a solution to global climate change as a replacement for fossil fuel based energy (burning coal or natural gas).
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And although champions of the legislation will go to lengthens to make it appear as though those evil fossil-fuel energy suppliers and energy-gobbling corporations will foot the bill, Americans have enough economic sense to know that ultimately those costs find their way to consumers and workers.
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Expensive: Currently wind energy not as efficient as fossil fuel or nuclear energy and farms are expensive to set up.
It is significant, then, that Shell relies on gas for 48% of its fossil fuel production by energy value, while the corresponding ratio at other giant oil companies is between 37% and 41%.
It is significant, then, that Shell relies on gas for 45% of its fossil fuel production by energy value, while the corresponding ratio at other giant oil companies is between 37% and 41%.
For decades the company's energy business has been focused on fossil-fuel power plants or nuclear energy.
Until there is a price on carbon, along with other clean energy policies, these profits will likely continue, fossil fuel consumption will keep rising and clean energy will struggle to compete on an uneven playing field.
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The question for the long term was, he explained, how to get off the "fossil fuel price escalator" with energy sources including renewable and nuclear.
Green Party spokeswoman Jenny Jones urged the government to be more courageous in moving Britain from a "fossil fuel culture" to sustainable energy sources like wind, solar and water.
It is hard to think of a messier and more wasteful way of shifting from fossil and nuclear fuel to renewable energy than the one Germany has blundered into.
The use of renewable energy sources will decrease the Army's fossil fuel consumption, while lowering greenhouse gas emissions and creating a more assured energy supply.
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This kind of plan is music to the ears of not just the fossil fuel industry but also to any energy intensive manufacturers.
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If we really want to significantly replace fossil fuel-based power with renewable energy, then we need to get the public to care more.
But not everyone sees the bigger picture -- that the global economy will improve by moving away from dependence on fossil fuel, that investments in renewable energy can create jobs and that a new revolution is needed to replace the outdated Industrial Revolution.
Instead, we have created a patchwork quilt of energy subsidies and tax credits that has bifurcated into two camps: Permanent tax credits for the fossil fuel industry and temporary credits and subsidies for the renewable energy industry.
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Most prototype hydrogen-powered vehicles use more energy than the fossil-fuel vehicles they replace.
Nisbet sliced-and-diced information from several large campaign-finance databases like OpenSecrets.org and Maplight.org to estimate the amount of money environmental groups and the fossil-fuel industry spent on climate and energy campaigns.
The letter, organized by Beyond Zero Emissions, comes as a response to the failure of the much-compromised Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), which was pilloried as a giveaway to fossil fuel industries and ineffective for driving clean energy deployment.
Traditionally energy managers relied on extra fossil fuel generating plants to ramp up and down as necessary to meet these needs.
If it goes ahead, the computer data centre would provide services for a number of companies and would be powered by tidal energy rather than rely on fossil fuel.
Heartening news rang forth from the renewable energy sector this week as a UN-backed study reported that the building of new renewable energy plants has officially overtaken fossil fuel plants in Europe and the US. We also took a look at two brand new types of power plants -- the world's first hydrogen-driven power plant in Italy and the first hybrid coal-solar power plant in Colorado.
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There is no replacing fossil fuel until a way is found to store renewable energy and make it available at any time.
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