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EAI is a leading online community and information support resource for the Indian renewable energy industry.EAI provides regular updates, blogs and an interactive forum for discussing alternative and renewable energy in India. The EAI team also provides consulting and research support in renewable energy. - renganathan

"Tar sands (also referred to as oil sands) are a combination of clay, sand, water, and bitumen, a heavy black viscous oil. Tar sands can be mined and processed to extract the oil-rich bitumen, which is then refined into oil. The bitumen in tar sands cannot be pumped from the ground in its natural state; instead tar sand deposits are mined, usually using strip mining or open pit techniques, or the oil is extracted by underground heating with additional upgrading.Oil sands represent as much as 66% of the world's total oil reserves, with at least 1.7 trillion barrels in the Canadian Athabasca tar sands and 1.8 trillion barrels in the Venezuelan Orinoco oil sands, compared to 1.75 trillion barrels of conventional oil, mostly located in Saudi Arabia and other Middle-Eastern countries." - renganathan

Oil shale is one of the unconventional alternate resources of energy that has emerged as a possible means to supplement declining conventional hydrocarbon production. These are fine grained sedimentary rocks containing relatively large amounts of organic matter from which significant quantities of shale oil and combustible gas can be extracted. - renganathan

Nearly 63% of the India's total energy requirements are met from coal. The available coal reserves in India are sufficient to meet our needs for at least another 100 years. India now ranks 3rd amongst the coal producing countries in the world. Taking those facts into consideration, it is obvious that coal is one of the potential energy substitutes in India. - renganathan

"Gas hydrates are a naturally occurring “ice-like” combination of natural gas (usually methane) and water that have the potential to provide an immense resource of natural gas from the world’s oceans and polar regions. They occur where pressure, temperature, gas saturation, and local chemical conditions combine to make them stable. Gas Hydrates occurs in the pore spaces of sediments, and may form cements, nodes, veins, or layers." - renganathan