As a late bloomer, Mr Nilekani argues, India can avoid mistakes made by early industrialisers, such as an overdependence on fossil fuels and unsustainable pension policies.
The highest potential for man-made quakes may come from the development of carbon-capture technology, an effort to recover the carbon dioxide released by fossil fuels and blamed for an increase in global temperatures.
Nature heavily skews the odds against an animal becoming a fossil most simply decompose.
Finland sees nuclear power as an attractive alternative to fossil fuels, while Britain is thinking of building new nuclear plants.
Mr Brown has previously called for the UK to increase its nuclear power capacity as an alternative to burning fossil fuels, which many experts believe to be a cause of climate change.
Looking forward fifty or a hundred years, irrespective of the amount of supply available, it is pretty clear from an environmental perspective that unconstrained fossil fuel use is just not tenable.
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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.
The question is one of the most hotly contested in palaeontology and revolves around an apparent gap in the fossil record immediately prior to the K-T boundary - the distinct layer of geological sediments separating the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods, and associated with a massive asteroid impact and global extinction event.
The problem of CO2 is also directly connected to an issue of the depletion of fossil fuels.
Even just putting efficiency and alternatives on an equal footing with heavily subsidized fossil fuels would level the market enough to turn the corner and create local jobs and component manufacturing here in the United States.
The key is to understand that this is a key component, a key part of a comprehensive strategy to move us from an economy that just runs on fossil fuels to one that relies on more homegrown fuels and clean energy.
This is where nuclear power has remained essentially flat, even with efforts to increase the power factors at existing facilities, as compared to wind, solar, and other clean renewable sources of energy which have huge potential in expansion capacity and can easily meet demands if we support them on an equal basis has we have fossil fuels and nuclear power.
The cheapest way to prevent an electricity crunch is to allow new fossil-fuel stations to be built.
The fossil record also shows an apparent lack of dinosaur fossils in the last few million years leading up to the impact.
There is a small component of nuclear energy in DOE, and an even smaller component of alternatives and fossil fuel ( DOE FY2013 budget) but most of this is for basic scientific research.
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.
As supplies of oil are being sought in increasingly inhospitable regions of the globe to meet rising demand against finite supply, the hunt is on for uranium in the face of an emphasis to turn-away from fossil-fuel based power stations and toward nuclear.
As I calculated in my earlier Forbes article, one needs to multiply the EPA MPGe by .365 to get a number that truly compares fossil fuel use of an electric car with a traditional gasoline engine car on an apples to apples basis.
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Proof of this is simple: imagine that fossil fuels, just as an example, were supplied by not for profit organisations.
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The collection also offers an insight into Moore's approach to fossil collecting.
Like magic, fossil fuels have led to an increase in abundance.
Fossil-collecting, unlike fossil-hunting, is an unregulated free-for-all, and fakes abound.
Also, demand for power in remote areas without access to power grids is growing exponentially, and the rising cost of fossil fuels makes remote power an even greater challenge.
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At the time of Mr Larsen's imprisonment, many people felt that the government was stretching the law to make an example of him, thus discouraging other fossil hunters from going anywhere near federal land.
We would bridge the short-term problems with reasonable and safe development of fossil fuels, while simultaneously setting an agenda to not just produce energy domestically, but also to do so cleanly.
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He just wants to provide an alternative to the world's diminishing reserve of fossil fuels.
Many airlines -- Virgin being one example -- are actively developing bio-fuel technologies in an attempt to reduce their reliance on carbon-emitting fossil fuels, while a great deal of work is being done in the area of improving air-traffic management.
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At best, the Obama administration's approach to U.S. domestic oil and gas production can be characterized as a strategy of ambivalence, an uneasy equilibrium between desire to lessen the role of fossil fuels and the reality of their necessity in a functioning U.S. economy.
According to a life-cycle analysis, the land-based crops all were found to sequester more carbon than that incurred in growing them, while the contrary was true for growing algae, meaning that replacing fossil fuels by algal fuels could cause an overall increase in carbon emissions.
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