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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

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The extracted rock can be used directly as a power plant resource or it can be processed to produce shale oil, which in turn can be refined into gasoline, diesel or jet fuels. There are also significant reserves in Jordan, Morocco, Sweden, Syria and Turkey. Different that shale oil—i.e., million (US$12.8

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myenergi joins launch of Cleantech for UK, a new initiative to supercharge UK cleantech, supported by Breakthrough Energy

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To secure the enormous benefits on offer to those brave enough to lead the transformation of our industrialised economies to cleaner, decarbonised and resource-efficient versions of themselves will require innovation in all facets,” said Richard Youngman, CEO, Cleantech Group.

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Study Finds that US Subsidies for Fossil Fuels Are Almost 2.5x Those for Renewables

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These figures raise the pressing question of whether scarce government funds might be better allocated to move the United States towards a low-carbon economy. Adenike Adeyeye, James Barrett, Jordan Diamond, Lisa Goldman, John Pendergrass, and Daniel Schramm (2009) Estimating US Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002-2008.

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Use of Reformed Exhaust Gas Recirculation Gas as a Dual Fuel Can Significantly Reduce Both NOx and Smoke in a Diesel Engine at Low Loads

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A further increase of the hot REGR to 30% improved the gaseous fuel oxidation and, hence, resulted in better fuel economy because of increased inlet temperature and closer to stoichiometric gaseous fuel-air mixture. Resources. A paper on their study appeared online 7 October in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. Tsolakis, R.

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