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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Fossils
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a carbon cap and trade system, there'd be an agreed-to limit the amount of carbon we emit. That changes the economic picture for fossil technologies and for the renewable technologies. It makes the renewable technologies more attractive and the fossils less attractive.
- Energy Security
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost £3 a week - is a reasonable price for Britain to achieve a degree of energy security to reduce its total dependence on fossil fuels and to honour its commitments to cut green house gases.
- Fossil Fuel
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no secret that the environmental movement is ultimately designed to create new inroads into increased government control. All of the shots taken at emissions, the dependence on fossil fuels, and noise pollution are designed to paint those things as symptoms of a problem, with the government able to step in as the solution.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is Mr. Trump could simply sit in the Oval Office for four years like a potted plant, and that would be a vast improvement over the Obama agenda, which was almost in every case - from tax increases to spending stimulus bills to Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, the war on fossil fuels, and so on - bad for growth.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The facts of the fossil record never justified denying poor people a healthy diet. The facts of the weather record do not justify denying poor people affordable energy. And no set of facts, whatever they may be, can justify denying scientists - or anyone else, for that matter - the right to free speech.
- Depend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products.
- Nov 07, 2020
You'd save millions upon millions of lives by making fossil fuels available to parts of the world that don't have it.
- Fossil Fuel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Renewable energy is not more expensive than fossil fuel when you factor in life-cycle costs.
- Matters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.
- Electricity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because fossil fuels are not only a finite resource but hazardous to the environment, it is imperative that we diversify the resources used in generating electricity.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.
- Global Warming
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels - the essence of the Greens' theory of global warming - has about as much basis in science as Marxism and Freudianism.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to be reminded that we still live in a world that relies a lot on fossil fuels, and that transition to new and renewable sources is not always and in all cases possible from one day to the next.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Paris Agreement is, in fact, a historic one because it marks the culmination of a phase of very long, drawn-out negotiations involving more than 190 countries. Why is it historic? Because it shows the way for our societies to change from the ground up, to create an economy that only depends on fossil fuels to a very slight degree.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.
- Fossil Fuel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself to be a ‘reducetarian.' I try to consume less and be aware of the decisions I'm making. Not just food, but single-use plastics, and fossil fuels and energy.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the Navy, developing alternatives to fossil fuels isn't just about fighting climate change - though that's an important side benefit. Biofuels will also play a much more practical role in the Navy's fuel mix, boosting our energy security and supporting the U.S. economy.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
We clearly have to reduce harmful energy emissions. Everyone acknowledges we simply can't switch off fossil fuels overnight.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.
- Fossil Fuels
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that it is impossible to stop people from using the fossil fuels, so we need to develop technologies which allow us to use them without creating environmental havoc on the planet.
- Blessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saudi Arabia is blessed with energy from various sources, whether it's fossil in oil and gas, or renewables, wind and solar, that are extremely competitive.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings. And this, of course, is why evolution remains controversial.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all know that we have to get off of fossil fuels. And we know that the world is going in that direction. And we have to do it fast.
- Fossil Fuel
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to achieve zero emissions from fossil fuel sources by the second half of the century. That doesn't mean by 2050 exactly, but it means by that time we need to be pretty much on the way to achieving it.
- Fossil Fuels
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are totally schizophrenic. We are trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.
- American Citizens
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- Nov 07, 2020
A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of people doing good work, but we need to get the burning of fossil fuels off the highways and speedways of the world, so that we'll step up on global warming.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever the media asked me how much I have received in campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry, my unapologetic answer was, 'Not enough.'
- Fossil Fuel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long since thrown in the towel on the Democratic and Republican parties because they are really a front group for the 1%, for predatory banks, fossil fuel giants, and war profiteers.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.
- Global Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nations around the world - including Canada - are working to shift the global economy from dirty fossil fuels to clean energy. We must be vigilant in working to accelerate this transition, not slow or reverse it.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.
- Human Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.
- Carbon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We must stop using it.
- Planet
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That's of course not true. But they're hammering that into the voters' heads.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural disaster, the bill is paid by the taxpayer, not the fossil fuel company.
- Climate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.
- Fossil Fuel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Communities and workers should be partners at the table, not waiting on the sidelines while government and the fossil fuel industry dictate climate policy.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
- Nov 07, 2020
You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.
- Incredible
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enzymes - plainly the most important biotechnology of our era - already permeate many industrial processes. Unlike fossil fuels, they carry chemical programming which drives complex reactions, are renewable, and work at ordinary pressures and temperatures.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should not only look at the short-term economic benefits of fossil fuels but also at the bad news for climate change. We should therefore not greet the fossil fuel age unconditionally.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both the United States and the world economy have already reached - and surpassed - their sustainable physical limits. Ground water is being drawn down, soils eroded, forests cut faster than they grow, fish caught faster than they reproduce, non-renewable fossil fuels burnt without developing substitutes.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're going to get off fossil fuels, no question. We may not do it quickly enough to avoid some pain, and I'm quite worried about that. But by the 22nd century, there's no way we'll be on fossil fuels.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want these lefties to get called out as immoral basically to reduce the standard of living for every American by trying to ban fossil fuels in this country.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenge of weaning ourselves off fossil fuel even as it becomes more abundant will make the old fights about energy conservation seem like child's play.
- Carbon Dioxide
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- Nov 07, 2020
Burning fossil fuels emits carbon dioxide. And carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere. There is no debate about that. The link is as certain as the link between smoking and cancer.
- Giddy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel cubicles, we sit cozy as kings atop 300 years of flaming carbon.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Governor of Colorado, I will continue to transition our state away from fossil fuels to more clean, renewable sources of energy.
- Energy Sources
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to see us move from a fossil fuel economy to a renewable economy - if not in my lifetime, then in the lifetime of my children.
- Fossil Fuel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet and everything that we love.
- Fossil Fuel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
- Genera
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a native Oklahoman, I'm dismayed by what fossil fuel pollution has done to the Sooner State.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to stop being so profligate with fossil fuels, to rein back climate change and protect biodiversity. We need to work together, globally, and I’m optimistic that we will.
- Method
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.
- American Citizens
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was really my experience at Standing Rock that was pretty pivotal for me because I saw how corporations were literally militarizing themselves against American citizens so that they could kind of maximize their profit margins on fossil fuels.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is very possible to have lives that are just as prosperous, and nicer, that use 5 percent of the fossil fuels and virgin materials we do now. But if we're living anything like the average McMansion-ite, SUV-driving suburbanites, there's simply no way that can be powered in a climate-friendly way.
- Fuel Cells
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.
- Embedded
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- Nov 07, 2020