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2 unusual facts about fossil fuel


Fossil fuel

Heavy crude oil, which is much more viscous than conventional crude oil, and tar sands, where bitumen is found mixed with sand and clay, are becoming more important as sources of fossil fuel.

Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977–92

It does not include their pseudonymous singles as The Dukes of Stratosphear, The Three Wise Men or The Colonel.


ABB Group

Also, in the early 1990s, ABB purchased Combustion Engineering (C-E), headquartered in Stamford and Norwalk, Connecticut, a leading U.S. firm in the development of conventional fossil fuel power and nuclear power supply systems to break into the North American market.

Nuclear astrophysics

A back-of-the-envelope calculation indicates that if the Sun consisted entirely of a fossil fuel like coal, a source of energy familiar to many people, considering the rate of thermal energy emission, then the Sun would have a lifetime of merely four or five thousand years, which is not even consistent with records of human civilization.

Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation

In practice, the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation will mostly be achieved by blending bioethanol, biomethanol, biodiesel and biogas (derived from sources such as palm oil, oilseed rape, cereals, sugar cane, sugar beet, and reprocessed vegetable oil) with fossil fuels.

The Energy Construct

The book examines alternative transportation fuels, renewable energy, nuclear energy, and clean fossil energy to develop a path forward.


see also

Energy policy of Australia

Biodiesel is an alternative to fossil fuel diesels that can be used in cars and other internal combustion engine vehicles.

Fossil Fuel Levy

Section 33 of this Act was briefly superseded by the Fossil Fuel Levy Act 1998 until its repeal (by the Utilities Act 2000), bringing the FFL back under the Electricity Act.

National Power Training Institute

The Training Institutes at Badarpur and Nagpur are equipped with 210 MW Digital, full–scope, real–time, fossil fuel fired Power Plant Training Simulators to provide off-job, hands on training.

Rising Tide North America

Thomas Friedman, a number of banking and fossil fuel industry CEOs and others have been notably targeted by this organization.

Rising Tide UK

Alongside various other environmentalist groups in the UK, RTUK has aimed to make fossil-fuel sponsorship as unacceptable as tobacco sponsorship has become.