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Clean Energy Fuels (NAS: CLNE) carries $173.4 million of goodwill and other intangibles on its balance sheet. Sometimes goodwill, especially when it's excessive, can foreshadow problems down the road.
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.
Deaths caused by use of fossil fuels such as oil (areas of rectangles in chart) greatly exceed those resulting from production of renewable energy (rectangles barely visible in chart). [45] Some harmful impacts of petroleum can be limited to the geographic locations where it is produced, consumed, and/or disposed.
As of 2019, 37% of global electricity is produced from low-carbon sources (renewables and nuclear energy). Fossil fuels, primarily coal, produce the rest of the electricity supply. [160] One of the easiest and fastest ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to phase out coal-fired power plants and increase renewable electricity generation. [136]
Fossil fuel power station – Facility that burns fossil fuels to produce electricity Greenhouse gas – Gas in an atmosphere with certain absorption characteristicses Health effects of atmospheric particulate matter – Microscopic solid or liquid matter suspended in the Earth's atmosphere Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
The three fossil fuel types are coal, petroleum and natural gas. It was estimated by the Energy Information Administration that in 2006 primary sources of energy consisted of petroleum 36.8%, coal 26.6%, natural gas 22.9%, amounting to an 86% share for fossil fuels in primary energy production in the world. [19]
Fossil fuel (primary non-renewable fossil) sources burn coal or hydrocarbon fuels, which are the remains of the decomposition of plants and animals. There are three main types of fossil fuels: coal, petroleum, and natural gas. Another fossil fuel, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), is principally derived from the production of natural gas.
In a fossil fuel power plant the chemical energy stored in fossil fuels such as coal, fuel oil, natural gas or oil shale and oxygen of the air is converted successively into thermal energy, mechanical energy and, finally, electrical energy. Each fossil fuel power plant is a complex, custom-designed system.