“Chinese growth will either be strong or very strong. They have a voracious demand for energy that will only continue to grow. What they're doing... is looking at all forms of energy. They're going ahead very strongly with coal, nuclear, oil, natural gas.” FormEnergyStrongGrowsGrowthNaturalDemandOilNuclearChineseGasVery StrongCoalNatural Gas Author:John S. Watson
“Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from centralized fueling facilities like trucking fleets or buses and cabs. That is happening. Before it can make big inroads beyond that, infrastructure is going to need to be developed.” NeedsBigsNaturalGenerationsHappeningsHarderGasBusVehicleCoalInfrastructureFacilityTransportationCabNatural GasTrucking Author:John S. Watson
“The transition from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and geothermal energy is well under way. In the old economy, energy was produced by burning something - oil, coal, or natural gas - leading to the carbon emissions that have come to define our economy. The new energy economy harnesses the energy in wind, the energy coming from the sun, and heat from within the earth itself.” WayWellsEarthEnergyNaturalEconomySunWindOilBurningHeatGasTransitionCarbonCoalEmissionsHarnessNatural GasOil And GasCarbon EmissionsNew EnergyAlternative EnergyGeothermalGeothermal Energy Author:Lester R. Brown
“There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.” NeedsEnergyNaturalWindSourceIndustryOilFuelGasCoalFossilsUrgentSuppliesFossil FuelRenewable EnergyNatural GasEnergy SourcesBurning Fossil FuelsWind PowerRenewable Energy SourcesWind EnergyGeothermalGeothermal Energy Author:Bill McKibben
“Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs.” JobsNaturalOilFuelGasCoalAffordableNatural GasAmerican Jobs Author:Aubrey McClendon
“How did we make the transition from using wood to using coal, from using coal to using oil, from using oil to using natural gas? How in God's name did we make that transition without a Federal Energy Agency?” GovernmentNamesEnergyNaturalWoodsOilAgencyGasTransitionCoalNatural Gas Author:Milton Friedman
“We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen.” UseEnergyNaturalEconomyWindMassOilGasTransitionTidesCoalHydrogenNatural GasSolar EnergyBiosWind Energy Author:William J. Clinton
“Nuclear power, once regarded as petroleum's natural heir, has become less and less attractive as its numerous drawbacks come to light. Coal, the other fossil fuel, is ultimately as exhaustible as oil.” LightNaturalEnvironmentalOilNuclearAttractiveFuelCoalFossilsExtremistFossil FuelHeirsNuclear PowerDrawbacksPetroleum Author:Lester R. Brown
“Innumerable entirely new compounds have been produced in the last century. The artificial dye-stuffs, prepared from materials occurring in coal-tar, make the natural colours blush. Saccharin, which is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, is a purely artificial substance. New explosives, drugs, alloys, photographic substances, essences, scents, solvents, and detergents are being poured out in a continuous stream.” Has BeensLastsScienceStuffNaturalCenturyMaterialsDrugEssencePreparedSubstanceStreamsColourSugarArtificialScentCoalCompoundsExplosives Book:Matter and energy Source: Matter and energy