The plan: extract 1.5 million gallons of green crude oil a year from patented pond scum fed a diet of carbon dioxide and sunlight.
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Sapphire Energy's answer is a form of "green crude oil" made from algae, which can be grown on non-agricultural land in shallow paddies full of undrinkable saline water.
To keep the sand from blowing away, most courses rake three or four gallons of vegetable oil into each green once or twice a year. (Not too long ago, they used motor oil.) Sand greens are about one-third the speed of grass, but the oil quickens them up a bit, too.
The Carbon Club is green slang for the oil companies and other purveyors of hydrocarbon fuels.
The laundry list of green features of each Oil Silo Home is exhaustive: super-thick insulated wall panels, rainwater recycling systems, rooftop gardens, natural ventilation, EV charging stations, radiant floor heating, green walls, and the list goes on and on.
In a CNBC interview, billionaire oil tycoon turned green-tech evangelist T.
That said, there is a value to Big Oil in doing something green, even if the biggest benefit is being able to deflect flack from environmentalists.
Houston's oil execs might not appreciate that much of the funding of the bailout bill's green energy provisions will come through raising taxes on oil and gas production.
Green activists fear an accident involving an oil rig or pipeline could ruin the sea.
Another spike in the price of oil that would spur subsidized green projects but we're not holding our breath.
It has been rebranded as an effort to create green jobs and end dependence on foreign oil rather than as a solution to climate change.
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Do we really believe none of this will resurface if oil companies are given the green light to drill in our section of the Arctic continental shelf?
Mr Leggett knows both sides of the street: a geologist by training, he made a fortune as a consultant to the oil industry before he got green religion.
Unilever then buys a certificate from the Green Palm Programme for every ton of palm oil they purchase.
When it comes to the amount of energy released when coal or oil is burned, the new green technologies are still way behind.
Think the Obama administration is working to curtail the production of oil in the USA in favor of green energy sources?
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The startup also plans to use the money to develop products for processing wastewater and delivering purified water for industrial operations such as oil and gas or beverage production, Green said.
Another dark lining in this silver cloud is that cheaper oil and gas will reduce incentives to produce green energies.
That immense forest is pockmarked in places by isolated lighter-green squares, where the trees have been felled and oil palm planted.
Rich and Green, who essentially invented spot-market trading in oil, aroused the scrutiny of the U.S. Justice Department for their shady Middle Eastern trades in the 1970s.
He took it personally, as he puts it, but it's not all about stopping the flow of oil money - the man also has a green streak a mile wide.
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Green energy may have its day, but only when coal, oil and gas become truly scarce.
The 21st century will be remembered as the resurgent coal and oil century, or as the century humanity transitioned to green technologies for energy consumption.
The bottom line is that green-energy jobs cost taxpayers, on average, 15 times more than oil, gas, and coal jobs.
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The future of oil sands is here: they are cost effective and their face is green.
Banco Verde Vida (Green Life Bank) pays with its moeda verde (green currency) for recyclable materials such as plastic bottles, tins and used cooking oil.
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In fact, gas is so plentiful in the U.S. right now that companies like Cheniere Energy have gotten the green light to start exporting it. (See: To Import Less Oil, U.S. Must Export More Gas).
Another find, the Green River formation in Wyoming, could contain an astounding 1.4 trillion barrels of oil shale.
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Green says different ministries are promoting different investment priorities, from foreign stocks and companies to oil and other resources.
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