In addition, MLPs are limited by law to specific businesses, mostly fossil energy extraction and transport.
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Eighty percent is the fossil energy we had to use to grow the corn and make that fuel.
Globally, coal-fired electricity generation rose by an estimated 6% from 2010 to 2012 , faster than non-fossil energy.
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Seventy-five percent is a magic number in my mind -- 70-75 percent -- because that means the cost of electricity of photovoltaics is less than the cost of new fossil energy.
Still, we keep hearing that scientists who challenge claims that our planet is on fire fueled by fossil energy are lackeys of a heavily-funded disinformation campaign underwritten by Big Oil, Big Coal, and other Big Spenders.
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Rather than simply subsidize production of current technologies, we need a comprehensive energy innovation strategy to develop, manufacture, and deploy riskier but more promising clean energy technologies that may eventually compete with fossil energy at scale.
Such an approach will create a sound carbon management framework for the sector and in so doing, move policy closer to the integrated treatment of fossil energy and terrestrial GHG sources ultimately needed for effective climate protection.
It seems we keep hearing that scientists who challenge claims that our planet is on fire fueled by fossil energy are lackeys of a heavily funded disinformation campaign underwritten by Big Oil, Big Coal, and other Big Spenders.
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If we grow biofuels in ways that require very low input of fossil energy to grow them, which we can do, let's say, if we grow things like perennial plants where we don't need to plant them every year.
Gore's "mistake" was a whopper: Corn is a poor substrate for ethanol production because it takes a lot of conventional fossil energy to grow and ferment it, and its diversion to ethanol production creates a conflict between two of our most fundamental needs--food and energy.
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.
Almost all of the increase in fossil-energy production will occur in non-OECD countries.
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.
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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Because of higher costs and technical barriers to widespread clean energy adoption, efforts to move the U.S. energy system away from fossil fuels towards clean energy alternatives inevitably comes with a significant price tag.
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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.
Expensive: Currently wind energy not as efficient as fossil fuel or nuclear energy and farms are expensive to set up.
Over time, fossil and nuclear energy may look a lot less objectionable to many true environmentalists.
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For technical, policy, and financial reasons, risks are often higher for renewables than fossil-based energy.
For both of those reasons, there is ample justification to continue developing a non fossil-based energy future.
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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China will "endeavor" to cut emissions of carbon dioxide -- the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change -- by "a notable margin" in coming years, Hu said, adding that China also will "vigorously develop renewable energy and nuclear energy" with the goal of increasing the share of non-fossil fuels in total energy consumption to 15 percent by 2020.
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Over time I think the transition is going to be more and more clean energy and over time fossil fuels become less prominent in our overall energy mix.
For decades the company's energy business has been focused on fossil-fuel power plants or nuclear energy.
Nations with affordable energy from fossil fuels are more prosperous and healthy than those without.
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