Today is Earth Day, and it is very likely that the fact that abundant fossil fuels like oil, natural gas and coal, are natural resources, and gifts to humanity from Mother Earth herself will be lost amid all the frightful doom and gloom predictions that will be launched by environmental activists and repeated by various media outlets.
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Kola Aluko, a Nigerian energy and aviation tycoon, founded oil trading firm Fossil Resources in 2001, then went on to become CEO of Exoro Energy- an indigenous oil exploration and production firm.
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He said that's all the more reason to diversify away from foreign oil and fossil fuels in general.
The three conventional forms of fossil carbon oil, coal and gas differ both in the way the Earth stores them and the way its people use them.
Even though prices for fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal are stable or even falling, interest in the alternatives is high and rising.
But what I want to emphasize is that this announcement is part of a broader strategy that will move us from an economy that runs on fossil fuels and foreign oil to one that relies more on homegrown fuels and clean energy.
"Given the pressing need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, especially oil, and to cut CO2 emissions, the future for hydrogen as an alternative means of storing and utilising energy cost-effectively has never been brighter, " said Jim Heathcote, chief executive of ITM.
And I think what distinguishes the President's approach, all-of-the-above approach to our energy future from the Republican approach is that the Republican approach is essentially one that is written by or dictated by big oil and focuses almost entirely on oil and fossil fuels.
Those heat-trapping gases are from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
Yet burning a tonne of palm oil instead of fossil fuel saves only three tonnes of emissions.
But Metcalf also confirmed the finding that many fossil fuel activities, particularly oil drilling, get very favorable tax treatment.
Because of the burning of fossil fuels, such as oil and coal, carbon dioxide levels have gone up by that amount in just 55 years.
Fossil fuel, such as oil and coal, are in such great demand because of their constant availability they are there when people and businesses need them.
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That means industry is going to have to find ways to reduce energy use, because most greenhouse gases come from burning coal, oil and other fossil fuels.
Then Oil and other fossil fuels will go into a long decline with investors on a business decline strategy making money out of the asset stripping and running the oil fields into the ground.
"We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations, " he said, warning of a "long and sometimes difficult" path to sustainable energy sources in a nation dominated by its fossil fuel industries such as oil and coal.
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For an hour and a half they spoke about how to solve what Icelandic President Grimsson called, "the most fundamental question of the 21st century": energy and whether there will ever be enough alternative sources of power to satisfy global demand if, and only if, the world manages to shake its addiction to oil and other fossil fuels.
Human sources come principally from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas.
In the fossil fuel industry, both enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and enhanced coal bed methane recovery use compressed CO2 as an input.
Now, the professors did a very careful analysis, considering fossil fuels only and converting these into oil equivalents.
Amid surging oil prices and talk of fossil fuels running out, nukes have lost a lot of their taint.
That was the assessment a year-and-a-half ago, Since then, the Congressional Research Service has tabulated the totals and acknowledges that the United States currently has the largest known fossil fuel reserves in terms of total oil equivalent almost three times as much as Saudi Arabia and it seems that every month the new gets better: The reserves continue to swell.
Venter says the goal is to discover the "thousands and thousands" of different organisms found in fossil fuel sites, from coal beds to oil wells.
The EIA also reports that total fossil fuel production in public areas oil, gas and coal has plunged to a nine-year low, to 18.6 quadrillion BTUs from 21.2 quadrillion in 2003.
Instead, the unmistakable message that we need to get off of dirty, unsafe fossil fuels came from an undersea volcano of oil unleashed by the hubris, recklessness, and arrogance of Big Oil.
The report insists that, in hand with a combination of energy efficiency and fuel-switching measures, this growth in electricity production would be enough to supplant all fossil fuel use (coal, gas and oil), including that for transport and space-heating.
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.
Taking all these things together the burial of the charcoal and the substitution for fossil fuels of the heat, gas and oil produced by its manufacture Johannes Lehmann of Cornell University and Jim Amonette of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state suggest that a reduction of between one and two gigatonnes of carbon-emission a year might be achievable.
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The burning of fossil fuels, such as coal for electricity and oil for gasoline, has caused the overwhelming bulk of the man-made increase in carbon in the air, scientists say.
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