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Reliance Sees Payoff in U.S. Gas as India Output Slumps: Energy
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Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), owned by Mukesh Ambani the world’s richest energy billionaire, spent the last three years wagering $5.7 billion on North American shale oil and gas. That may now be ...
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Jun.10.2013
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Energy 101: Lumens
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Description: In this edition of Energy 101, we talk about Lumens. When you’re shopping for light bulbs, compare lumens to be sure you’re getting the amount of light, or level of brightn...
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Jun.7.2013
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Renewable energy rules
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Geothermal energy seems, to the casual observer, to be neglected by recent development. The 16% of renewable energy that we struggle to produce for our total needs does include mainly biomass such ...
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Jun.3.2013
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Estonia’s Shale Oil Market: How The Small Country Is Hoping To Revolutionize The Energy Sector
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Home to the creators of Skype and the first country to use online voting, Estonia relishes its image as a technological pioneer. But the tiny East European country’s most far-reaching economi...
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Jun.3.2013
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A Generator That Harnesses Energy From Ocean Currents
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A working model of the estimated $5-million device could be ready within a year. The magic of ocean currents is that they surround every continent on Earth and they run all day, every day. That’s w...
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Jun.3.2013
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Monterey Shale Shakes Up California’s Energy Future
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It’s easy to tick off the ways in which California is a leader in clean energy: It harvests more solar energy than any other state, has a program to curb greenhouse gas emissions from the veh...
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May.30.2013
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Where Does The Sun Get Its Energy?
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The sun has been producing light for about five billion years but where does all its energy come from? The most common idea is that the sun is burning gas – like a giant fireball in the sky. ...
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May.30.2013
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Hairy skyscraper to collect energy through piezo-electric straws
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Stockholm-based architecture firm Belatchew is proposing to retrofit a tower on one of the city’s island neighborhoods with 14 new floors and millions of tiny piezo-electric ‘straws...
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May.29.2013
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River Deforestation Shoots Hydropower In The Foot
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Supporters of clean energy often get pegged as “treehuggers”, out of touch hippies that have an irrational affinity for the natural world. Trees, in addition to sucking up carbon dioxide and keepin...
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May.28.2013
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Fake forest converts sunlight into chemical energy
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Mimicking photosynthesis, these nanowire trees absorb light to generate oxygen and hydrogen. One hour of global sunlight contains enough energy to meet the demands of every human on the planet for ...
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May.23.2013
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7 fictional energy sources from pop culture
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Wouldn’t it be great if your car was powered by dilithium crystals? The harnessing of clean, green sources of energy — wind, solar, geothermal and beyond — and the movement away from non-rene...
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May.8.2013
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Collapsing Cooling Towers
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It’s time to move on. Our country, and all of us, need to move from a fossil fuel past to a renewable energy future. The mood in Britain has turned very much against the Big Six energy compan...
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May.6.2013
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Conservatives prefer wasting energy over protecting the environment, study finds
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“Why do conservatives like to waste energy?” asks Tim McDonnell about a disturbing study on attitudes towards energy conservation: A study out today in the journal Proceedings of the Na...
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May.3.2013
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Nanofibers build tougher, stronger bikes and planes
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The new nanofiber’s loose structure allows for it to absorb more energy without breaking. Just because something’s tough doesn’t mean it’s strong. In fact, finding materials that are both tou...
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Apr.29.2013
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Massive deposit of lithium found in Wyoming could meet all U.S. demand
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Currently, the U.S. imports more than 80% of the lithium it uses Despite the fact that Bolivia alone has enough lithium reserves for 4.8 billion electric cars and that lithium can be recycled from ...
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Apr.29.2013
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New Plasma Device Considered The ‘Holy Grail’ Of Energy Generation And Storage
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Scientists at the University of Missouri have devised a new way to create and control plasma that could transform American energy generation and storage. Randy Curry, professor of electrical and co...
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Apr.25.2013
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Enormous Planet Solar Ship Pops into Morocco for a Fast Four Days
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The world’s largest solar-powered ship has been out of commission for a while, but she’s back in business for her first 2013 Port of Call in Morocco. After leaving La Ciotat in France on 8 April, 2...
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Apr.23.2013
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Smart storage algorithms could cut data-center energy use by 20-50%
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Optimizing energy-hungry data-centers Now that digital video is ubiquitous, there are vast oceans of data being stored in gigantic data centers around the world. To ensure the accessibility and int...
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Apr.19.2013
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Energy independence will depend on economy’s overall health
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Experts unanimously agree that the United States’ ability to supply its own energy needs is growing, but how self-sufficient it will be in the next decade or two is still up for debate. The federal...
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Apr.17.2013
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An artificial leaf can heal itself
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Researchers have been striving to create a power source that can be used in remote areas that lack sources of energy, and the ‘leaf’ is a step in that direction. A new artificial leaf t...
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Apr.15.2013
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