And in buses on the U.S.' West Coast, we're testing hydrogen fuel-cell engines, designed to replace today's oil-burning engines.
His oil-burning boiler was destroyed, along with many other possessions.
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.
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.
Abtech is developing generators that will get their power by burning oil-engorged Smart Sponges.
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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.
And they're also threatened by increasing off-road vehicle use, the recreational burning of oil in these, you know, pristine places.
The world was burning through twenty-three thousand gallons of oil every second.
Last year, more than 150 members of Congress from both sides of the aisle produced legislation providing incentives to use clean-burning natural gas in our vehicles instead of oil.
PUBLIC-RELATIONS folk are not noted for burning the midnight oil over the works of great economists.
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said "as many as three or four" oil wells may be burning on the Iraqi side of the Iraq-Kuwait border.
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.
Those heat-trapping gases are from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
But in the race to get the higher-priced oil out of the ground as quickly as possible, many companies are simply burning it.
The U.S. oil industry has blamed the high prices on new federal regulations that require Midwestern gasoline producers to provide cleaner-burning gasoline reformulated with a more expensive additive.
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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.
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