fossil energy

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heat energy released by burning fossil fuel

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fossette, Fosse Way, Fossey, fossick, fossil, fossil energy, fossil fuel, fossil fuels, fossil gum, fossiliferous, fossilize

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How to use fossil energy in a sentence

I think a lot of it has to do with the attitude and the energy behind it and the honesty.
‘Black Dynamite’ Presents Police Brutality: The Musical|Stereo Williams|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Total oil production figures include crude oil, natural gas liquids, and other liquid energy products.
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The energy economy has always been a fixture of Texas life, and that has not changed.
Will Texas Stay Texan?|David Fontana|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Day by day, it drives people to distraction by diverting energy to mindless legal compliance.
Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans|Philip K. Howard|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Chickens require significantly less land, water, and energy than all other meat options except farmed salmon.
The History of the Chicken: How This Humble Bird Saved Humanity|William O’Connor|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
This may be done by taking the humming tone and bringing to bear upon it a strong pressure of energy.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
It was, of course, the suppressed emotional energy finding another outlet.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
She was putting her papers tidy again with calm fingers, while his own were almost cramped with the energy of suppressed desire.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood