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  Washington (UPI) Apr 25, 2018 There's no certain long-term future for coal as a power source given the shift toward low-carbon options, but that's not the case near-term, a U.N. agency said. Coal accounts for about 30 percent of total energy used globally and about 40 percent of total electricity generation. Among fossil fuels, natural gas is a cleaner option when compared to oil or coal. The International Energy Agency said global energy demand growth increased last year by 2.1 percent from 2016. Renewable forms of ... read more |
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Rare earth magnet recycling is a grind - this new process takes a simpler approachAmes, IA (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 A new recycling process developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Critical Materials Institute (CMI) turns discarded hard disk drive (HDD) magnets into new magnet material in a few steps, and tac ... more  
Nanowires could make lithium ion batteries saferWashington DC (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 From cell phones and laptops to electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries are the power source that fuels everyday life. But in recent years, they have also drawn attention for catching fire. In an e ... more  
New York announces solicitation for large scale renewable energyAlbany, NY (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced the second solicitation for large-scale renewable energy projects under the state's Clean Energy Standard. The solicitation for up to 20 projects will ac ... more  
Balancing nuclear and renewable energyArgonne IL (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 Nuclear power plants typically run either at full capacity or not at all. Yet the plants have the technical ability to adjust to the changing demand for power and thus better accommodate sources of ... more |
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Similar charges are attracted to each otherMoscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 NUST MISIS scientists have finally found out why a material that could potentially become the basis for ultra-fast memory in new computers is formed. Professor Petr Karpov and Serguei Brazovskii, bo ... more  
India merger to create world's second-largest mobile mast firmMumbai (AFP) April 25, 2018 India's Bharti Infratel and Indus Towers said Wednesday that they had agreed to merge in a deal that will create the world's second-largest mobile mast company. ... more 
3-D printed food could change how we eatSan Diego CA (SPX) Apr 25, 2018 Imagine a home appliance that, at the push of a button, turns powdered ingredients into food that meets the individual nutrition requirements of each household member. Although it may seem like some ... more 
Profits up at Facebook, no impact from privacy scandalSan Francisco (AFP) April 25, 2018 Facebook on Wednesday reported a sharp jump in profits in the past quarter, with gains in its user base and strong ad growth as the social network appeared to see no impact from a controversy over privacy. ... more 
World's oldest insect inspires a new generation of aerogelsNewcastle UK (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 A team of international scientists have created a new form of highly-efficient, low-cost insulation based on the wings of a dragonfly. The material, known as an aerogel, is the most porous mat ... more |
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Global carmakers show off SUVs, electrics as China pledges reformsBeijing (AFP) April 25, 2018 Global carmakers touted their latest electric and SUV models in Beijing on Wednesday as they warily welcomed China's promise of better foreign access to the world's largest auto market, where domestic vehicles are making major inroads. ... more  |
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Energy markets mixed on higher U.S. crude oil inventoriesWashington (UPI) Apr 25, 2018 Oil prices were mixed Wednesday on signs of declining U.S. petroleum inventories and the possibility the United States will extend the Iran nuclear deal. ... more 
Norway's Statoil attributes production gains to the United StatesWashington (UPI) Apr 25, 2018 Norwegian energy major Statoil said its average equity production for the first quarter was up 6 percent year-on-year, driven mostly by its U.S. work. ... more 
Tullow Oil keeps offshore Africa expectations staticWashington (UPI) Apr 25, 2018 Robust production from an evolving basin off the coast of Ghana in West Africa wasn't enough to change the outlook for the year, Tullow Oil said. ... more 
Libyan oil production moves higher for Hess CorpWashington (UPI) Apr 25, 2018 Production from Libyan assets during the first quarter of the year expanded exponentially from last year's levels, U.S. energy company Hess Corp. said. ... more 
Iraq launches production at southern gas fieldBaghdad (AFP) April 25, 2018 Iraq said Wednesday it had launched commercial production at its Siba gas field in the southern province of Basra in a joint venture with Kuwaiti, Turkish and Egyptian firms. ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Putting a price on carbon, in the form of a fee or tax on the use of fossil fuels, coupled with returning the generated revenue to the public in one form or another, can be an effective way to curb emissions of greenhouse gases. That's one of the conclusions of an extensive analysis of several versions of such proposals, carried out by researchers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laborat ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 
From cell phones and laptops to electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries are the power source that fuels everyday life. But in recent years, they have also drawn attention for catching fire. In an effort to develop a safer battery, scientists report in the ACS journal Nano Letters that the addition of nanowires can not only enhance the battery's fire-resistant capabilities, but also its other pr ... more |
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 Warsaw (AFP) April 24, 2018 
A US renewable energy group Invenergy said on Tuesday it had begun international arbitration against Poland, claiming it stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars (euros) after the EU country reneged on its commitments to build wind farms.
Between 2005 and 2015, Invenergy built 11 wind farms in Poland, investing "hundreds of millions of dollars of equity capital to develop and construc ... more |
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 Viesca, Mexico (AFP) April 23, 2018 
From a distance, it looks like a deep-blue sea has formed in the middle of the Mexican desert.
But this is no mirage - it's the largest solar park in Latin America.
With 2.3 million solar panels - covering the equivalent of 2,200 football fields in the arid northern state of Coahuila - the Villanueva power plant, built by Italian energy company Enel, is part of Mexico's push to genera ... more |
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 Argonne IL (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 
Nuclear power plants typically run either at full capacity or not at all. Yet the plants have the technical ability to adjust to the changing demand for power and thus better accommodate sources of renewable energy such as wind or solar power.
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently explored t ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 
Although considered critical to avoiding catastrophic global warming, the feasibility of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it underground - known as negative emissions - has been in question.
"There's really no scenario that meets the world's climate goals without negative emissions," said Katharine Mach, a senior research scientist at Stanford's School of Earth, Ener ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 24, 2018 
With certain conditions, a judge in Minnesota backed a plan by Canadian oil shipper Enbridge to replace an aging oil pipeline with a bigger one.
Enbridge is proposing an overhaul of the Line 3 segment of a broader network that extends through parts of Canada and into the northern United States. The company wants to pull the old network out and replace it with a new line capable of carry ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 
Trade and social networking helped our Homo sapiens ancestors survive a climate-changing volcanic eruption 40,000 years ago, giving hope that we will be able to ride out global warming by staying interconnected, a new study suggests.
Analyzing ancient tools, ornaments and human remains from a prehistoric rock shelter called Riparo Bombrini, in Liguria on the Italian Riviera, archeologists ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 25, 2018 
There's no certain long-term future for coal as a power source given the shift toward low-carbon options, but that's not the case near-term, a U.N. agency said.
Coal accounts for about 30 percent of total energy used globally and about 40 percent of total electricity generation. Among fossil fuels, natural gas is a cleaner option when compared to oil or coal.
The International En ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 23, 2018 
As part of the events that mark China's Space Day, the first China Aerospace Conference will be held in Harbin in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on April 24, according to an official from China National Space Administration (CNSA).
More than 2,000 people have signed up for the conference, which will be attended by aerospace professionals from the government, state-owned and privat ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 20, 2018 
Northrop Grumman was awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for identifying friend or foe technology compatible with the E-2C Hawkeye.
The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $51.8 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price delivery order, which is a modification to a previous basic order agreement.
The contract from Naval Air Systems C ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 23, 2018 
Japanese energy company Marubeni Corp. said it would work in the U.S. market to deliver ultra-fast charging stations for electric vehicles.
The company said it was working through its U.S. subsidiary, a division of Volkswagen and Electrify America LLC on a $2 billion investment in electric vehicle infrastructure. Under the terms of the arrangement, Marubeni said it would collaborate wit ... more |
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 Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 
A team including physicists from the University of Basel has succeeded in using atomic force microscopy to clearly obtain images of individual impurity atoms in graphene ribbons. Thanks to the forces measured in the graphene's two-dimensional carbon lattice, they were able to identify boron and nitrogen for the first time, as the researchers report in the journal Science Advances.
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 Waterloo, Canada (SPX) Apr 26, 2018  Cheap, flexible and sustainable plastic semiconductors will soon be a reality thanks to a breakthrough by chemists at the University of Waterloo.
Professor Derek Schipper and his team at Waterloo have developed a way to make conjugated polymers, plastics that conduct electricity like metals, using a simple dehydration reaction the only byproduct of which is water.
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 Paris (AFP) April 3, 2018 
French railway unions used to be able to cripple the country by blocking the train network. But when workers walked off the job on Tuesday, new technology helped reduce the misery for commuters and companies.
In 1995, when drivers and other staff on the national network downed tools, commuters faced hellish traffic jams for nearly three weeks, while companies struggled with absent staff and ... more |
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 Xian, China (AFP) April 18, 2018 
China has a found a novel way to tackle its massive air pollution problem: Putting up a giant air purifier the size of an industrial smokestack in the middle of a smog-plagued city.
Instead of pumping out billows of black smoke like the chimneys rising from factories in the northern province of Shaanxi, the 60-meter (197-foot) tall structure on the outskirts of the regional capital Xian blas ... more |
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