For their calculations, the two assumed that where there was a gap between demand and conventional supply it would be filled with synthetic fuels, first with tar-sands oil and later with oil from coal and shale. (According to high-end estimates, coal and oil shale could together yield some ten trillion barrels of unconventional crude.) They then calculated what the impact would be on global carbon-dioxide levels.
While conspiracy theorists may want to believe that Big Oil, Big Coal and Big Nuclear are stifling the growth of renewables, the simple truth is that coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear can satisfy the Four Imperatives: power density, energy density, cost and scale.
In commodity markets, such as oil and coal, there is little or no scope for differentiation.
This is true not just for oil and coal, but also of wind and solar.
He said the decision followed the downward trend in recent oil, coal and gas prices.
So he takes away the oil and coal subsidies but adds new ones for solar and wind.
Less than 2o years ago, electric generation was primarily the domain of oil, coal, and nuclear plants.
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At present 55% of electricity in the country is generated using imported fuel, mainly oil and coal.
We do not have the convenience of gas and pay exorbitant amounts for electricity, oil and coal.
At the moment it comes from natural gas, oil or coal, in a process that spits out carbon dioxide.
These power stations require fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas to operate which are relatively more expensive.
But what we don't need is to have the President keeping us from taking advantage of oil, coal and gas.
The world already has five times as much oil, coal and gas available as climate scientists say the atmosphere can tolerate.
Another way of thinking about it is the output of manufacturing industry minus any influence from oil, coal or other mining industries.
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To that end, the Heartland Institute and ALEC, as it is known, get much of their financial backing from oil and coal interests.
Solid waste combustion, sewage treatment, stone quarrying, marinas, and oil and coal-fired power plants have air pollution damages larger than their value added.
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The thermal power stations require natural gas, oil and coal to operate, all of which have been rising in price in recent times.
Harness those "bugs" and put them to work producing natural gas in underutilized oil and coal fields, decided Luca Technologies Chief Executive Robert Pfeiffer.
The only way to reverse that trend is to slash oil and coal use by upgrading the efficiency of cars, factories and power plants.
The truth, of course, is that Obama has spent the past four years talking down and regulating up oil, coal, and even natural gas.
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.
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.
China is a minor exporter of crude oil and coal, so the overall trade figure is a little lower than the import numbers shown below.
While prices for energy sources such as oil and coal have gained handsomely in 2010, natural gas prices have been hindered by excess supply.
Clean-burning natural gas, he said, will serve as the bridge fuel to take us from reliance on oil and coal to alternatives like solar and wind.
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Growing such crops as switchgrass not only absorbs carbon, but also produces a fuel that some power plants can use instead of oil, coal or gas.
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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Because the carbon fuels industry -- big oil and coal -- have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party, and they are drilling it for everything it's worth.
Because the carbon fuels industry big oil and coal have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party, and they are drilling it for everything it's worth.
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