Sentences with phrase «whether fossil fuel production»

The primary forecasting problems are thus how much, at what rate and even whether fossil fuel production will continue to increase.

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But even this paper qualifies its predictions (whether or not aerosols would so increase was unknown) and speculates that nuclear power may have largely replaced fossil fuels as a means of energy production (thereby, presumably, removing the aerosol problem).

But even this paper qualifies its predictions (whether or not aerosols would so increase was unknown) and speculates that nuclear power may have largely replaced fossil fuels as a means of energy production (thereby, presumably, removing the aerosol problem).

In 2015, the legislature passed a moratorium intended to delay fracking while the state's Department of Natural Resources studied whether fracking — a method of oil and gas production that uses large amounts of chemical - and sand - laced water to break up shale gas below ground, releasing deposits of fossil fuels.

Does it matter whether there is a net energy loss in the production of corn - based ethanol --- that is, it takes more fossil fuel energy to produce ethanol than the ethanol itself produces?