Word: fossils
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...Talk about back to the future: Coal, the miracle fossil fuel that jumpstarted the industrial age, but has been viewed in recent decades as backwards and dirty, is hot once again. Technology and economics may be aligning to make the black rock more useful and economically efficient than ever. And guess what: the U.S. has more of it than any place else-27 percent of the world's total. Coal-burning power plants fuel half of the nation's electricity. That was true even during the 1990s, when utilities built plants that burn cleaner natural gas. Back then, natural...
...investigating the existence of a new hobbit-like species that is distinct from present-day humans. Lieberman said that the remains of at least nine individuals with the features of a tiny human have been excavated on the remote Indonesian island of Flores. The first of these hobbit fossils was uncovered in October 2004. More recently, an anthropology professor at the University of New England in Australia, Mike Morwood, discovered a fossilized jawbone that has spurred the latest investigation into the new species’ existence. Morwood collaborated with another professor at the University of New England, Peter Brown...
...century it will be between 900 and 1,000.” Schrag also insisted that there is “no single solution to climate change,” and that solutions would be costly because of our reliance on fossil fuels. Schrag did offer some suggestions, such as reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by pumping it underground, which might help facilitate the carbon cycle, the earth’s natural means of drawing carbon...
That's when I knew the crisis might last forever--well before the President's speech last week on saving fossil fuel and even before Hurricane Katrina hit, when gas finally went the way of water and coffee and turned from a modest, ordinary liquid into a fancy, specialized elixir. The signs of change were coming nonstop. At the Costco warehouse store in Bozeman, 50 miles from my home in Livingston, I stopped bumping into my neighbors on Saturday mornings in the cavernous dog-and-cat-food aisle. They had stayed home, buying kibble by the normal-size bag rather...
Objectively, Iran’s claim that it needs nuclear power just doesn’t make sense. The nation is swimming in fossil fuels: Iran is the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’s second largest oil producer (it holds ten percent of the world’s proven oil reserves) and the world’s second largest natural gas reserve. Yet Iran has extremely limited deposits of uranium—producing energy via nuclear means makes far less financial sense than producing it by conventional means...