fossil fuels
fossil fuels
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by Rick Chapo - 2007-01-29
When people think of wind power as a renewable energy, they tend to envision images of a couple of wind turbines twirling in the wind. The Tehachapi Wind Farm is an example of wind power on a large...
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by Rick Chapo - 2007-01-29
There is little doubt that China is a country coming into its own. With a massive population, the country is starting to wake up and grow economically. Of course, it needs power to make that happen...
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by Rick Chapo - 2007-01-29
There is little debate that we need to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels, but the costs of renewable energy platforms such as solar make it difficult. Nanotechnology definitely offers the answer. ...
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by Richard Chapo - 2007-04-12
Why is alternative energy good for our environment? Alternative energy is classified as a clean energy that produces little to none of the hazardous emissions that come from other energy sources like...
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by Richard Chapo - 2007-04-12
Alternative energy would seem like a good choice for new home builders and people who are in the market to buy a new automobile. There are disadvantages of alternative energy that realistically need t...
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by Daniel Yergin - 2007-04-24
The world today depends on fossil fuels to meet over 80 percent of its energy needs, a simple fact of the way the industrial world has grown up. But dependence brings with it major challenges: rising ...
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by Daniel Yergin - 2007-04-24
The global electric power landscape is changing fast, and increasingly, the action in it has been shifting to Asia. On average, in each of the last three years, China alone has added as much new gener...
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by Daniel Yergin - 2007-05-01
Biofuels are hot. But how hot? Here are "just the facts." But first, what are biofuels? These are fuels derived from plants or animal fat that can replace such familiar oil-based transportation fuels ...
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by Daniel Yergin - 2007-05-10
The road is getting much clearer. This week, legislation will emerge from committee, and almost certainly soon head to the floor of the U.S. Senate. It might not get that much notice in itself, but it...
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by Rick Martin - 2007-05-15
Studies have shown that natural gas formation resulted by means of the process of putrefaction of the little sea animals and plants that disappeared about 300 million years ago. After such forms...
