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Fossil fuel divestment or fossil fuel divestment and investment in climate solutions is an attempt to reduce climate change by exerting social, political, and economic pressure for the institutional divestment of assets including stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments connected to companies involved in extracting fossil fuels.
An energy transition is a broad shift in technologies and behaviours that are needed to replace one source of energy with another. [14]: 202–203 A prime example is the change from a pre-industrial system relying on traditional biomass, wind, water and muscle power to an industrial system characterized by pervasive mechanization, steam power and the use of coal.
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Solar updraft tower – large version of the solar chimney concept; Solar water heating; Solid fuel; Sonoluminescence – the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound. SSTAR – small, sealed, transportable, autonomous reactor; Steam turbine; Stirling engine; Straight vegetable oil; Stranded gas ...
The most common modern fuels are made up of hydrocarbons and are derived mostly from fossil fuels . Fossil fuels include diesel fuel, gasoline and petroleum gas, and the rarer use of propane. Except for the fuel delivery components, most internal combustion engines that are designed for gasoline use can run on natural gas or liquefied petroleum ...
A fuel is a substance used as a source of energy, usually by the heat produced in combustion. The List of energy topics compiles various energy technologies and issues. Subcategories
In post combustion capture, the CO 2 is removed after combustion of the fossil fuel. The technology for pre-combustion is widely applied in natural gas processing. [34] In these cases, the fossil fuel is partially oxidized, for instance in a gasifier. The CO from the resulting syngas (CO and H 2) reacts with added steam (H 2 O) and is shifted ...
Petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia. Petrochemicals (sometimes abbreviated as petchems [1]) are the chemical products obtained from petroleum by refining. Some chemical compounds made from petroleum are also obtained from other fossil fuels, such as coal or natural gas, or renewable sources such as maize, palm fruit or sugar cane.