Not exact matches
Peanut butter is also cheap when compared to
alternate methods of «
fueling» a workout,
such as pricey energy bars or protein smoothies.
What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil
fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to
alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming
such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.
ClearFuels expects that the life - cycle carbon footprint of renewable
fuels produced by ClearFuels - Rentech technologies can be near zero, depending on the feedstock and the
alternate use of
such feedstock.
Natural gas is the preferred
fuel for autoproducers, but there have been natural gas shortages in the late 1990s that have forced some of these small cogeneration power plants to turn to alternative
fuels — not a preferred solution, since most alternative
fuels are more expensive than natural gas (on a heat content basis, including deliver costs to the plant site) and some
alternate fuels (
such as heavy oils) have a high sulfur content.
If fossil
fuels continue to become more difficult and expensive to extract and as
alternates,
such as nuclear or renewable sources, become cost competitive, the rate of CO2 increase will most likely slow down.