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    sources. This paper studies the depletion pattern, using models, of fossil and nuclear fuels. The studies show that oil depletion will be the first concern. Electric vehicles are promising and economical but at this point cannot overcome the need for oil. Biofuels are very limited in their production. The study shows that if the relationship between technology and an economy dependent on oil does not improve, world economic growth will be severely challenged. More ambitious energy policies are needed

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    the acquisition of the vast oil field at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. This acquisition represented a good increase in the percentage of oil production in the United States and ensured that the company could increase its production and further its goals and objectives for the United States market. As early as 2001 there were incidents at the facility that the company internally accounted for and management was made aware of the safety concerns that existed. The March 2006 oil leak represented a culmination

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    In the event of a zombie apocalypse everything in this world would change. Society will not be the same, the norms society once had will be different. Governments would like to establish social control but the environment would be too chaotic to control. A survival mode would be establish by everybody, everybody would be by themselves, and only protect their own. Resources would be the new currency, because paper money would no longer have value, but a resources will. Governments would like to establish

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    ISIS Oil Drilling

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    other countries to find a way to constrict ISIS's inflow of money; bombing ISIS oil infrastructure and shutting down banks operating in territory controlled by ISIS are two

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    1970 Economy Analysis

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    America advanced technology and manufacturing techniques (Foreign Trade and Global Economic Policies. 2008). By the 1970’s the gap between the United States and other countries was narrowing due to competitiveness and the shock wave that struck from oil prices, a worldwide recession

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    Hydrogen Fusion, the Future Source of Energy Abstract The world is currently in an energy crisis with no end in sight. Many technologies can help reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and have the possibility of ending the energy crisis. Hydrogen fusion holds great promise with its no pollution energy output. If more energy can be created than is used to start the fusion process, the energy crisis might become a thing of the past. Over half of the energy used now comes from fossil fuels,

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    latest adventures to the public do not reveal the whole truth about their objectives, positive and negative. The American people get confused and wonder why they must investigate American companies in order to separate the lies from the truth. The Oil and Gas Industry have been fracking, a process that has been met with controversy, to obtain natural gas and with this process comes profit and harm done to others by way of polluting the air, contamination in water, using large amounts of fresh water

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    The main issue is that water is being overused and vastly wasted. Another issue is that the water that it is available is taken from one sector to be given to another sector. For example, agriculture takes an immense amount of water, but the water crisis has also reached the agriculture industry in the western region of the United States leaving billions of dollars in losses and thousands of jobs lost. Moreover, the laws and restriction that attempt to

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    temperature, until they formed valuable hydrocarbons which have countless applications for the energy industry (7). The main types of fossil fuels are oil, natural gas, and coal, which each formed under a different set of conditions. Oil and natural gas are primarily derived from compacted aquatic organisms, with natural gas simply being “cooked” longer than oil has been. This differs from coal, which formed from primarily plants that were buried under hundreds of layers of sediment (7). Fossil fuels are

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    underground shake structures to reveal conceivable unrefined petroleum and vaporous oil bearing approaches. Ultrasensitive contraptions named as geophones are utilized by the seismologists to record the sound waves as they resound inside the earth. After brief research on the echoes, geologists begins finding the significance and structures of secured geologic game-plans. This sort of examination may empower them to recognize oil and gas bearing supplies which are stowing without end underneath the world's

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