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A top Russian government official on Friday warned that the race for Arctic energy riches would lead to clashes between global powers and said Russia needed to speed up exploration in the region. "Our neighbours are engaged in researching technologies to build ice-class vessels and are investing efforts in building drilling platforms for the Arctic," Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said ... read more
Moscow (UPI) Jun 19, 2009 Gazprom, only a year ago poised to become the world's most valuable company, is in somewhat of a crisis. Because of the financial crisis, the state-controlled Russian energy giant, in 2008 worth roughly $350 billion, has shrunk by nearly two-thirds to $120 billion, the Moscow Times reports. Oil and gas prices fell dramatically in the immediate aftermath of the financial fallout ... more
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Tokyo (AFP) June 19, 2009With China likely to soon overtake Japan as the world's number two economy, Tokyo should follow a new growth path as a "trouble shooter" on climate and other global issues, a government report said Friday. "The Japanese economy's share in the world has been declining... Japan's status as 'the world's second largest economy' is drawing to an end," the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry ... more  
Beijing (AFP) June 19, 2009China expects more than 40 million people to be unemployed in 2009 and wants to tackle the problem by training more to become housekeepers, state media reported Friday. The government's jobless forecast, reported by the Beijing News, comes after several warnings that the global financial crisis has had a serious impact on the nation's trade-dependent economy. Earlier this year, state ... more 
Mongstad, Norway (AFP) June 21, 2009Norway's most polluting industrial site, the Mongstad oil refinery, is now looking to lead the way on fighting climate change. Located on the country's west coast, the refinery spits out around 1.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide every year -- a gas that is widely blamed for global warming. But the Mongstad site will soon start road-testing new technology known as 'Carbon Capture and ... more  
Berlin (AFP) June 19, 2009Germany's economy minister on Friday ruled out building new nuclear power stations but said the life of some reactors might be extended and the development of alternative technologies stepped up. "We need limited extensions until we are able to work with sensible alternative technologies in an economical and environmentally friendly manner," Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg told the Sueddeutsche ... more |
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Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Jun 22, 2009Electronic devices of the future could be smaller, faster, more powerful and consume less energy because of a discovery by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The key to the finding, published in Science, involves a method to measure intrinsic conducting properties of ferroelectric materials, which for decades have held tremendous promise but have ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 22, 2009The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology has released for public review a report+ that identifies issues and proposes priorities for developing technical standards and an architecture for a U.S. Smart Grid. The Smart Grid is a planned nationwide network that will use 21st century information technology to deliver electricity efficiently, reliably and ... more 
Rosslyn VA (SPX) Jun 22, 2009The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved the American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 by a bipartisan vote of 15-8, following months of hearings and meetings with various industries, including NEMA. The bill includes recommendations that NEMA provided when it testified before the committee In March. The legislation now proceeds to the full Senate for consideration at a time ... more 
Alexandria VA (SPX) Jun 22, 2009News of a planned nuclear power plant in Ohio, the expected selection of four companies to receive federal loan guarantees to build the next generation of nuclear reactors and renewed support in Congress for nuclear energy were welcomed by the Reform Institute. The announcement of the new plant by Duke Energy in Piketon, Ohio, reports that UniStar Nuclear Energy, NRG Energy Inc., Scana ... more |
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