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Energy and environmental costs of flying around closed airspaces

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A recent article by Jacopo Prisco has documented the impact that closed airspace over Russia has on a one specific flight—a Finnair nonstop flight from Helsinki to Tokyo (Narita), using an Airbus A350-900. The basic facts from the Prisco’s article are summarized in the table below. Thus, the current route has about 9.2

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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Live by Energy…. Energy is the foundation of Russia, its economy, its government, and its political system. According to the IMF’s 2015 Article IV Consultation-Press Release and Staff Report , published August 3, oil and natural gas exports constituted 65 percent of exports, 52 percent of the Federal government budget, and 14.5

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When Will Russia Run Out Of Oil?

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Russia’s exploration activities, which were hit not only by plummeting oil prices but also by a targeted sanctions regime, suffered a double blow during this period. In 2015, only seven new hydrocarbon discoveries were made in Russia, three of them in the Baltic Sea. When will Russia run out of oil? million tons.

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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

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In practice, the call for a change is a call for Saudi Arabia and Russia, the two dominant global crude exporters, which each daily export over seven-plus mmbbls (including condensates and NGLs) and which each see the other as the key to any "balancing" moves, to bear the brunt of any production cuts.

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum —are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. Here are the 10 most popular AI articles that Spectrum published in 2023, ranked by the amount of time people spent reading them.

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Rimac plans to introduce the European answer to the Tesla Megapack

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Rimac has announced that it has started an energy storage division within its business, set to take on the likes of the Tesla Megapack. As the use of renewable energy systems like wind and solar has grown in popularity, the need for energy storage systems to back up these renewables has grown as well.

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The War in Ukraine Disrupts Trade in Both Food and Fuel

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought a stream of reports about the country’s energy exports. Before the war, Russia exported about 55 percent of its fossil-fuel output, mostly to the European Union. This is because Russia has changed from a proverbial agricultural basket case to a food basket. Here are the basic facts.

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