Word: coaling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...currently produced in the world had forced her to construct foreign policy around oil interests. Barnet asserts that the oil priority is not new and cites the Marshall plan as an early marriage of American business and political concerns. The decision to convert Europe from a coal-based energy system to an oil-consumptive one, after the decimation of World War II, is unavoidably tied to oil lobbying. The world's consumption of oil, inextricably linked with its consumption of minerals, water, food and energy, is managed by a handful of businessmen, much as it was a hundred years...
...Scotland, MacGregor has resided in the U.S. for 40 years and is now a naturalized American citizen. Between 1967 and 1977, as chief executive officer of Amax Inc., a molybdenum mining and metals company, he transformed the sleepy firm into a giant natural resources company. In addition to coal, it has large holdings in oil and gas, copper, nickel and iron ore. Although MacGregor is credited with the foresight of having acquired metals and energy sources before their scarcity became apparent, he is criticized for a heavyhanded management style and for failing to keep a close eye on the company...
Adel F. Sarofim, professor of engineering at MIT and a director of the Exxon-sponsored research project, said yesterday one of the project's goals is to discover clean combustion techniques for fossil fuels such as coal, coal liquids, shale oil and heavy crude oil. The fuels now require heavy preliminary refining...
...killing 600 Afghan soldiers in a mountain encampment and destroying 40 tanks. A band of rebels reportedly crossed the border between Afghanistan and the U.S.S.R. and managed to kill 200 Soviet troops. The rebels also claimed to have exploded a newly completed copper mine in the Logar Valley and coal mines in Badakhshan. They have been putting pressure on farmers to cut back on spring planting. Partly for that reason, this year's grain crop will be only 75% of normal. When two grape growers pruned their vines, in violation of the rebels' orders, insurgents...
...extraction also requires huge amounts of energy. Just to heat enough steam to liquefy and then force three barrels of heavy oil up a well shaft can take as much as one barrel of oil or its energy equivalent in the form of natural gas or coal...