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GE providing produced water handling systems to Blackgold Oil Sands Project; new solidification process for disposal of SAGD waste

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GS Engineering & Construction (GS E&C) has selected GE to supply the produced water evaporation and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) system for the Blackgold Oil Sands project, located near Conklin, Alberta. Blackgold is owned and operated by a subsidiary of the Korean National Oil Corp. A subsidiary of the Korean National Oil Corp.

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Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?

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Monique closes her EV’s fueling port and heads onto the highway with enough stored energy to drive 640 kilometers (400 miles). Importantly, the nanofluids are engineered to remain suspended indefinitely, unlike other suspensions—for instance, sand in water.

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Satellite Imagery for Everyone

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These underwater sand dunes adorn the seafloor between Andros Island and the Exuma islands in the Bahamas. DigitalGlobe (which Maxar acquired in 2017) recently announced that it had managed to send data from a satellite down to a ground station and then store it in the cloud in less than a minute. The time required for that varies.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM killed that car because of back room deals with oil companies, and now they expect us to believe that they are just so cutting edge now? GM killed that car because of back room deals with oil companies" GM "killed" that experiment because it wasnt even CLOSE to being cost effective. run the hardware store and buy a new one.

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