Shell Oil's Version of Future Energy Sources

ByRod Adams

I hope that the below copy is readable, but if not, you might try clicking on it to get access to a larger version. It came from the December 8, 2008 issue of Fortune Magazine.

Just in case you cannot read the copy, here it is:

“Tackling climate change and providing fuel for a growing population seems like an impossible problem, but at Shell we try to think creatively.
In addition to our growing oil and gas business, we’re investing in energy sources like wind, and also investigating innovative new engine fuels made from unexpected sources like gas, hydrogen, straw, waste woodchips, and marine algae.
It won’t be easy. Innovative solutions rarely are.
But when the challenge is hardest, when everyone else is shaking their heads, we believe there is a way.
To find out how Shell is helping to prepare for the new energy future, visit www.shell.com/us/realenergy.”

I always love it when nuclear fissions competitors think so little about it they cannot even remember to list it somewhere above straw as an energy option.

Rod Adams
Rod Adams

Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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