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We make this epinephrine in a factory by stitching together smaller molecules that come mostly from petroleum.
So nature's molecules are everywhere, including the ones that have decomposed into these black mixtures that we call petroleum.
Coal and natural gas are cheaper than solar and wind, and petroleum is cheaper than biofuels.
OK, if you put steam into coal fields or petroleum fields that have been running for decades, you can get a really substantial increase, like an eight-fold increase, in your output.
Lastly, phone production also requires petroleum, one of the main drivers of climate change.
There were four piles saturated with diesel and other petroleum waste: one was a control pile; one pile was treated with enzymes; one pile was treated with bacteria; and our pile we inoculated with mushroom mycelium.
If you use other kinds of microbes, they will eat petroleum spirits and crude oil.
And since the oil age completely transformed the textile industry, many of the materials and the chemicals used to process them are petroleum based.
Yet, when we take a step back, and look over the span of history, at what we might call the petroleum interval, it's a short period in history where we've discovered this extraordinary material, and then based a whole way of life around it.
There are volumes of volatile petroleum fumes coming off that water, plus the Corexit, which has solvent in it.
So what we're doing, we're putting compounds with petroleum solvents onto a petroleum spill.
Corexit also contains petroleum solvents and many other toxic compounds.
And then you get down to the petroleum distillates, which are the solvents, hundreds of them.
But in fact, that's why the slogan "beyond petroleum" worked.
What you see in this top drawing is a schematic of how petroleum gets used in the U.S. economy.
Today, we use a single feedstock, petroleum, to heat our homes, power our cars and make most of the materials you see around you.
But these materials are grown from agricultural byproducts, not petroleum.
Among the collection of images are a very ornate gift-wrapping ceremony, the creation of a disgusting dish of what appears to be petroleum jelly slabs formed with a cookie cutter and sprinkled with shrimp (this is served to the crew of the ship which is shown throughout the film), a large blubber cheesecake with a large tentacle turd placed in the center of it, and the mutual evisceration of Bjork and director Matthew Barney which eventually culminates in some bizarre kind of communion, followed by their transformation into whale-like creatures.
While this film may seem academically sound and well-researched, it does not once mention what I thought was rather widely regarded as the most practicable alternative to petroleum fuel, the conversion of coal into synthetic fuels using the Fischer-Tropsch process.
While more expensive, it cannot currently compete with the use of petroleum, and has therefore not been widely exploited.
The Suez Canal was pivotal to the shipping of petroleum from the oil rich nations to Germany, which required fuel both for production and for keeping its armor moving and its airplanes flying.
Most in this country would love to be left to their own devices by marketing/consuming fuel based on American coal derivatives like those delineated in the "Genesis" formula instead of depending upon foreign petroleum.
The manner in which access to oil is driving U.S foreign policy, the ubiquitous nature of oil in modern society, and the lack of scalable efficient alternatives to petroleum are presented for the viewer's consideration.
Sri Lanka’s Chinese ElectionNEW DELHI – Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election this month promises to shape not only the country’s political future, but also geopolitics in the wider Indian Ocean region, a global center of trade and energy flows that accounts for half of the world’s container traffic and 70% of its petroleum shipments.
The sudden discontinuation of the supply of petroleum and natural resources from Russia in the early 1990’s, the failure of the centrally-planned economy, and the subsequent massive famine in the mid-1990’s left North Korea’s leaders no alternative but to tolerate informal market activities.
Notable exclusions are real estate and alcohol – notorious sources of black money, the eradication of which is supposed to be a major objective of the Modi government – as well as petroleum products (currently taxed at about 45%), electricity, and communications tariffs.
And petroleum products, electricity, and real estate should have been included in the GST scheme.
Reserves are defined as the quantities of petroleum that are expected to be commercially recoverable from known fields.
Both sides firmly agree that there is nothing that the “weakened and cowardly West” can do to restrain Russia, a nuclear and petroleum superpower, beyond financial retribution against those Russian rulers with vast assets abroad.
Some may complain that the AGOA favors petroleum products, but the figures speak for themselves.
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