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carbon or carbon-based; often used to refer to energy sources which do no generatecarbon dioxide
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Examples
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The only way we are coming close to an 80% reduction is to move to noncarbon fuel for power and vehicles and if we do that it really won't matter that much if we improve our roads.
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Nuclear plants can operate at stable rates year-round, while noncarbon energy sources such as wind farms and solar panels depend on the weather to generate power.
Playing the Nuclear Card David Winning 2010
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CLP ' s strategy — part of a larger shift to raise the company ' s noncarbon-based sources of energy to as much as 40% of generating capacity by 2020, up from a current 19% — coincides with Chinese government subsidies and policies favoring cleaner sources of power.
Playing the Nuclear Card David Winning 2010
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What might begin to make up for all those emissions is discovering how noncarbon sources of energy could become economically attractive.
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Where will that revenue come from once the president's climate-change legislation is wildly successful at converting the U.S. to a noncarbon based economy?
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Mr. Green's research suggests that investing about $100 billion annually in noncarbon based energy research could result in essentially stopping global warming within a century or so.
Technology Can Fight Global Warming Bjørn Lomborg 2009
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Prices of carbon-based fuels would rise, forcing people to use less or making costlier noncarbon energy, such as solar, more competitive.
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Shifting subsidies from carbon-based to noncarbon-based fuels.
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Late last week he said he could perhaps support more U.S. energy exploration, so long as it was part of a larger "bipartisan" deal that presumably includes more rules for conservation, subsidies for noncarbon fuels, and other favorites of his green backers.
Obama's Drill Bit 2008
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Shifting subsidies from carbon-based to noncarbon-based fuels.
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