Abtech is developing generators that will get their power by burning oil-engorged Smart Sponges.
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In any case, destructive farming practices in exporting countries sometimes do more damage to the environment than burning oil or gas.
Since scarcely any electricity is generated in America by burning oil, the widespread use of such vehicles could greatly reduce our dependence on foreign sources of petroleum.
Today, Nicaragua produces electric power by burning oil and coal.
And they're also threatened by increasing off-road vehicle use, the recreational burning of oil in these, you know, pristine places.
Over 150 years ago, when Edison turned on his first lightbulb, he had to compete against the burning of oil for light.
Like Edison in New York City, solar must deliver a better service for a cheaper price if it wishes to displace the burning of oil for light.
But burning less oil to keep air cool so ice stays ice and the seas don't warm is too expensive and roundabout a way to meet the danger, Mr Mendelsohn thinks.
Dr Alamaro wants to use a gas-burning, rather than a coal- or oil-burning plant, because the exhaust produced by burning natural gas is free from sulphur dioxide, which plants hate.
PUBLIC-RELATIONS folk are not noted for burning the midnight oil over the works of great economists.
She admits to burning the midnight oil and starts to write at 2300 and finishes around 0730.
Next, we're going to report on the style of some of the cars burning all that oil.
These are already cheaper and cleaner than burning coal, oil and gas with all their pollutants, especially CO2.
Burning all that oil will heighten the military threat resulting from global warming.
The background level of tropospheric ozone is inexorably rising as volatile organic compounds are released from burning coal and oil.
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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.
His clients were primarily female who used him to track and confirm that their husbands were indeed seeing someone else and not burning the midnight oil at the office.
Scientists say it's apparent that human activity -- namely burning coal, oil and natural gas -- has been driving a rapid rise of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
As entrepreneurs we feel that burning the midnight oil is a must but we fail to realize that sleep gives a fresh perspective to challenges that arise throughout the day.
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But in the early hours of this morning they will burning the midnight oil one last time as Australia's latest national hero cycles down the Champs-Elysees wearing a yellow jersey and with a flute of champagne in his hand.
And in buses on the U.S.' West Coast, we're testing hydrogen fuel-cell engines, designed to replace today's oil-burning engines.
Importing fossil fuel is one solution, but the environmentally minded Swedes are unhappy about the greenhouse-gas implications of burning more coal, oil and natural gas.
His oil-burning boiler was destroyed, along with many other possessions.
The fuel pellets typically contain around 10 milligrams of fuel, and if all of that were consumed it would release the energy equivalent to that from burning a barrel of oil.
Cantering loosely down sand-covered roads sighting down a sine-wave of bonnet, lazy, dusty oppositelock applied at speeds rarely above a brisk trotting pace and the smell: scorched dirt, cooking tarmac, a whiff of hot oil, burning chrome and heat.
After 1900, Mexican immigrants came to the area in force, according to the Texas State Historical Association, and in the 1960s, as America began burning more and more oil and natural gas, Lee County was happy to produce it.
I've been able to get to within about 10 miles of Kirkuk -- able to see the oil capital of the north: a burning flare, a harmless flare, burning off gases from one of the major oil fields on the outskirts of Kirkuk.
Yet burning a tonne of palm oil instead of fossil fuel saves only three tonnes of emissions.
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