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Detect Quakes With “Raspberry Shakes”

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Geophones are commonly used in the oil and gas industry for seismic surveying, where the seismic waves are artificially generated to probe the ground below. I investigated what some other Web-connected Raspberry Shakes had recorded during that earthquake. quake took place in Chile. Since that time, a larger (magnitude 6.2)

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Pacific Road To Acquire 10% Stake In UCG Company Carbon Energy Limited from CSIRO

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Carbon Energy owns or has exclusive rights to all the intellectual property rights to CSIRO’s UCG technology and will continue to work closely with CSIRO whose working relationship with Carbon Energy is not connected, formally or otherwise, with the status of its shareholding in the company.

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Renault makes public its lifecycle study of Fluence ICE vs Fluence EV

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water, and non-renewable energies (crude oil, coal.) Quantifies the quantity of energy (crude oil, coal.) Raw materials extraction and transformation were based on data for the average production of lithium carbonate from brine (Chile) and lithium carbonate from spodumene (Australia). Quantifies ores (steel, aluminum, copper.),

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BG Group sanctions US$15B coal seam gas to LNG project; first such

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First LNG exports are planned to commence from 2014, underpinned by agreements in Chile, China, Japan and Singapore for the purchase of up to 9.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent—with 2P (proved plus probable) reserves now estimated at 7 tcf. Those contractors include: Bechtel Oil and Gas, Inc., mtpa of LNG. Become a 2.5%

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Sustainable Oils Opens Expanded Camelina Research Facility in Bozeman

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Camelina-based biofuel producer Sustainable Oils has opened an expanded camelina research facility in Bozeman with the goal of delivering improved camelina varieties to growers even more quickly. The new facility doubles Sustainable Oils’s laboratory and office space. —Jack Kiser, research manager for Sustainable Oils.

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Li-ion Reserve in the World: How it Revolutionised the EV Industry

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The developments and innovations that happened in the Internal combusting engine and the newly found oil reservoirs along with other few reasons made the gasoline cars favourite among the growing middle-class families in the U.S Newly found reservoirs of petroleum and crude oil decreased the oil price. The Great Fall.

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AMPECO CEO discusses the software that makes large-scale EV charging systems work in comprehensive Q&A

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In most cases we need to ask permission to share our customers’ names, but I can mention one company: The Paz Group , one of the biggest, if not the biggest oil and gas company in Israel. Same goes for fleet customers—you can benefit from the cars that are connected for a longer period of time, and you can charge them when it’s cheaper.