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Chevron and The Economist Group collaborated on an interactive, online energy game that challenges players to experience the complexities and tradeoffs inherent in energy management. Users are asked to make choices about how to power their city of millions using a variety of energy sources. Each source comes with a trade-off, and there is no simple solution that stands on its own.
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For more than three decades, the world's renewable energy production has increased and currently makes up a little more than 13 percent of the world's energy supply. Some say that isn't enough, that government and business should do more to increase renewable energy production.
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These days there is a lot of talk about biofuels - fuels made from plants such as corn, sugarcane and switchgrass - as one way to reduce the world's dependence on oil and fossil fuels. After all, they are renewable - and to many, that alone is reason enough to increase their role in our energy future.
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Nuclear power has received increasing attention in the global debate over the world's energy future, which has prompted a new look at and new thinking about this source of energy. The debate is not over whether or not the world should "go nuclear," but rather whether the world should rely on increasingly more nuclear power to satisfy its energy needs.
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Energy is a key driver of economic progress throughout the world. Developed nations depend on reliable, affordable energy to sustain their economies and increase wealth, while much of the developing world needs energy to meet the basic human needs of its citizens.
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Natural gas is seen by many as "the next prize," with gas demand expected to grow faster than other fuels such as oil and coal. Natural gas has clean-burning properties, lower greenhouse gas emissions and lower capital costs associated with developing power generation when compared with alternatives such as coal or nuclear.
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Energy independence - providing all of one’s energy needs by oneself - is an enticing concept. A country that has achieved energy independence would be free from the demands - economic, political, diplomatic, military and others - which are the unavoidable costs of energy interdependence.
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As energy demand continues to rise along with prices - and concerns for energy security, environmental impacts and fossil fuel depletion increase - energy conservation plays an increasingly prominent role in the practices of governments, corporations, consumers and NGOs.
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Oil has been the engine of economic growth for most of the last century. But there is growing concern and debate about the amount of oil we have left, and how much time we have to act.
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