Only nuclear power generation, which does not emit carbon dioxide, is available now as a large-scale alternative.
Dr. Venter said Exxon's involvement in developing biofuels was a critical component to bringing large-scale alternative fuels.
Zhao Xiaoyong, the vice general manager at GS Solar, a thin-film solar panel producer based in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, said that while solar panel prices were falling 5 to 10 percent a year, they were still not low enough to offer a large-scale alternative to electricity from the grid during power shortages like the one expected this summer.
The use of renewable feedstocks for biodiesel production makes it an attractive large-scale alternative to fossil diesel.
Hydroelectricity represents a large-scale alternative to fossil fuel generation, contributing only very small amounts to greenhouse gas emissions and other atmospheric pollutants.
The data from these studies provide evidence of large-scale alternative splicing and wide-spread use of alternative promoters throughout the mammalian genomes.
The results allowed us to investigate large-scale alternative splicing events, identify extensive number of novel transcript units, determine gene boundaries at single nucleotide resolution and comprehensively survey porcine microRNAs in the tested tissues.
He added: "We believe that tidal lagoons are a viable, large scale alternative to traditional fossil fuel and nuclear electricity production.
Stakeholders collaboratively developed and evaluated large-scale restoration alternatives designed to decrease two types of rapid habitat change occurring in the estuary, erosion of channels and dieback of salt marsh.
Among them, bioethanol - a renewable, biodegradable and non-toxic biofuel - derived from SSLs might constitute a cost-effective and large-scale production alternative, with associated environmental benefits [1,3].
