In the background of this debate, a competing energy resource play has quietly built momentum.
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Regulators in New York State are considering a proposal that would recognize gravity as a renewable-energy resource.
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Salazar, Obama's choice for secretary of the interior, has focused on public land and energy resource issues as a first-term senator from Colorado.
Coal: Coal is our most abundant energy resource and therefore should not be shunned in favor of natural gas for electric power generation.
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Meet methane hydrates, the world's most promising and perilous energy resource.
In the euphoria over the newly abundant fossil fuels, it would be easy to forget that the most economically beneficial energy resource is still energy efficiency.
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Because the Earth gets hotter the deeper you drill, EGS could expand the reach of geothermal power enormously and provide access to a virtually inexhaustible energy resource.
In the wake of the first Gulf War, the U.S. Army assessed Saudi Arabia's solar energy resource potential in a classified effort to determine how oil fires had affected the region.
In Denmark, wind IS the main abundant energy resource.
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SunPower's five-year growth plan will lower the cost of solar power to 12 to 18 cents per kilowatt-hour, positioning solar energy as a key peaking energy resource to meet our growing power demands.
Energy Secretary Ed Davey said shale gas was a promising new potential energy resource for the UK. It might contribute significantly to energy security and substitute for imports which are increasing as North Sea gas is decreasing.
According to the congressional report, China plans to more than double its renewable energy resource by 2020, is rapidly expanding nuclear power, which despite fears in the wake of the Japanese situation, is the cleanest method of producing power.
In contrast to the depletion economics that drive up the cost of fossil fuels over the long run, solar power is a Silicon Valley-style energy resource: the more we make, the more we learn, innovate and lower the cost of the technology.
Dr. Stacy provided a detailed technical presentation of the physical location, size and geo-political complexities associated with bringing to market what he characterized as potentially the world's second-largest oil reserves -- and a key energy resource for the industrialized nations in the 21st Century .
The combination of an endless wait for offshore drilling and severe rules that limit our ability to use these resources make it clear that current energy policy is an attempt by opponents of energy resource development to concede little now, for great political gains down the road.
While this mixup was easy to isolate and understand, it highlights an ongoing issue in the natural gas industry, that has become more and more important as the nation evaluates the unprecedented strategic potential of this domestic energy resource: Everyone seems to estimate and report the gas resource, and even production, a little bit differently.
As an alternative, opponents say Moscow should focus on providing energy to resource-starved countries in Asia, such as China and Japan.
The hut may well become a benchmark for future Alpine huts, with its designer, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, continuing to research its energy and resource use.
This need has served as a strong stimulus for the sustainability reporting software market, which sits at the top of the enterprise to aggregate carbon, energy and resource information from various data sources.
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This is why one of the most vital projects of this new century, defined by climate change and growing energy and resource scarcity, is to figure out a way to build these variables back into our economic system.
Either we continue to grow and innovate and hope that we can find an answer to our energy and resource depletion crises, or we place the matter in the hands of governments and use taxation, rationing, and other anti-growth measures.
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That process has compelled our portfolios to hold considerable exposure to energy and natural resource sector funds and modest exposure to precious metals.
For this reason, the initial wave of overseas acquisitions by Chinese companies has been largely confined to asset intensive energy and natural resource companies.
Electronics are ubiquitous in our lives, but they are resource and energy intensive to produce.
As long as energy is a precious resource, data center managers will continue looking for ways to improve conservation.
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If we sit back and do nothing, natural energy will remain a poor resource.
Google, Apple, Amazon, Baidu, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Deere, Peabody Energy, Arch Coal, Natural Resource Partners, and Freeport McMoRan.
We believe that this one big reasons why Indian state energy firms are keen on this resource.
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How America manages that resource could kill renewable energy or catalyze it.
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