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DOE awards Core Power and MIT Energy Initiative funding for floating nuclear power research project

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The hydrogen hub program is an $8-billion program to bring together stakeholders to help drive down the cost of advanced hydrogen production, transport, storage, and utilization across multiple sectors in the economy. Jacopo Buongiorno et al.

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DOE releases five-year strategic plan, 2014-2018; supporting “all of the above” energy strategy

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) released its five-year 2014-2018 Strategic Plan. DOE will continue to advance state of the art methods for predicting, controlling and monitoring the flow of injected fluids, including captured CO 2 with particular attention to minimizing or eliminating impacts on water resources.

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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

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During 2014, the global plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) industry is poised to grow by 86% and will surpass more than 346,000 new vehicles sold, according to a new white paper—“ Electric Vehicles: 10 Predictions for 2014 ”—published by Navigant Research. Automakers will push for changes in the California ZEV mandates.

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IHS Markit: conventional oil & gas discoveries at lowest levels in 70 years; major rebound unlikely

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The low levels in discoveries come as a result of a pullback during the past 10 years in the wildcat drilling that targets conventional oil and gas plays—most drastically after oil prices collapsed in 2014. Drilling in frontier/emerging-phase basins declined by a similar amount. —Keith King. —Keith King.

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Petrobras reduces pre-salt well drilling time by 55%

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As a result of this reduction, the company has achieved major cost savings due to a decline in the number of days spent on drilling operations. Given that the average cost of drilling a well is approximately US$1 million per day, Petrobras is saving an average of US$66 million in drilling activities per pre-salt well.

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Dutch Cabinet Approves Mileage Tax; In Effect in 2012 if Approved by Parliament

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The Dutch Cabinet on Friday approved a new road tax bill that would eliminate the current motor vehicle tax and purchase tax and replace them with a charge per kilometer driven, starting in 2012 and increasing through 2018. 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018. The average rate for a car is expected to be: Dutch Mileage Tax.

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La Poste testing hydrogen fuel cell range extenders in Renault Kangoo Z.E. mail delivery vehicles

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with fuel cell range extenders ( HyKangoos ) will be deployed in the first quarter of 2014 on mail delivery platforms. La Poste has targeted a 30% CO 2 reduction target per household served between 2008 and 2018. Cell assembly is also simplified, lowering the cost of mass production by more than 50%. The three Kangoos Z.E.s

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