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Why Is The Shale Industry Still Not Profitable?

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The firm said that in the third quarter of 2017, the “average operating cost per barrel has broadly remained the same without any efficiency gains.” Not only that, but the cost of producing a barrel of oil, after factoring in the cost of spending and higher debt levels, has actually been rising quite a bit.

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UCSD, South 8 team report improved liquefied-gas electrolytes for Li-metal batteries

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Improvements to a class of battery electrolyte first introduced in 2017—liquefied gas electrolytes—could pave the way to replacing the graphite anode with a lithium-metal anode. cycling efficiency reported in the 2017 Science paper, and an 85% cycling efficiency for lithium metal anodes with a conventional (liquid) electrolyte.

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Depot charging for electric trucks could reduce out-of-route miles – Charged EVs

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Vehicle electrification is still an emerging technology, and the only thing certain is that it remains uncertain what the balance of costs and benefits will look like once the e-mobility ecosystem becomes established. Rick Mihelic is Director of Emerging Technologies for the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE).

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The Next Oil Price Spike May Cripple The Industry

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In fact, we have been highlighting this threat to the energy industry in articles since 2015, for example here , here , here and here.) The second is that under the best of circumstances it will take the EV industry close to another decade to close this cost of ownership gap. Link to original article: [link]. 100 perhaps?),

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US Shale Is Now Cash Flow Neutral

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For years, the drilling boom was done with a lot of debt, and the revenus earned from steadily higher levels of output were not enough to cover the cost of drilling, even when oil prices traded above $100 per barrel in the go-go drilling days between 2011 and 2014. If we go back down to $50 (or lower) in 2017.then That isn’t a typo.

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GWU team demonstrates one-pot process for optimized synthesis of controlled CNTs from CO2; coupling cement and C2CNT

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This synthesis consumes only CO 2 and electricity, and is constrained only by the cost of electricity. This research article focuses on a highly favored route to the synthesis of controlled nanostructures at high rate, high yield, and low cost by molten carbonate electrolysis. Licht (2017). —Licht (2017).

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Battery capacity needs to power EVs in India from 2020 to 2035

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Here in this article, we will be discussing the need for the battery capacity to power electric vehicles in India from 2020 to 2035. Battery packs are the costliest of all the components in electric vehicles, one third of the cost of the EV is for the battery as there is a lack of lithium reserves in India.

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