Iran May Stop Exporting Energy Within 20 Years.Iran will cease to be an energy exporter within two decades if it fails to resolve its energy problems, a senior Iranian official said on Nov. 24. One of the most viable solutions was to develop nuclear energy on a big scale, he said. "It is a reality that Iran's energy consumption is increasing. The first remedy is to use alternative fossil fossil, remains or imprints of plants or animals preserved from prehistoric times by the operation of natural conditions. Fossils are found in sedimentary rock, asphalt deposits, and coal and sometimes in amber and certain other materials. resource exploitation Exploitation See also Opportunism. Barnum, P. T. (1810–1891) circus impressario famous for his saying, “Never give a sucker an even break.” [Am. Hist. and to increase the efficiency of energy consumption", said Alireza Attar, deputy foreign minister for economic affairs. He added: "If we don't don't 1. Contraction of do not. 2. Nonstandard Contraction of does not. n. A statement of what should not be done: a list of the dos and don'ts. find a solution to these issues within 15 to 20 years, we cannot be an energy exporter anymore. Therefore we should be able to exploit our fossil energy resources to create financial resources". Attar was addressing a panel at the two-day World Economic Forum in Istanbul Istanbul (ĭs'tănb  l`, ĭstan`bl), city (1990 pop. 6,748,435), capital of Istanbul prov. . Tehran Tehran or Teheran (both: tā'ərän`, –răn`), city (1991 pop. 6,475,527), capital of Iran and Tehran prov., N Iran, near Mt. Damavand. cites its growing electricity needs as a reason for its
nuclear development programme. He said: "We are planning to build
20,000 megawatts of nuclear energy capacity. That means we should build
20 nuclear houses (power plants)".
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