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New nanolithia cathodes may address technical drawbacks of Li-air batteries; scalable, cheap and safer Li-air battery system

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Overall, the new battery system is “ very scalable, cheap, and much safer ” than lithium-air batteries, Li says. Zhi Zhu, Akihiro Kushima, Zongyou Yin, Lu Qi, Khalil Amine, Jun Lu & Ju Li (2016) “Anion-redox nanolithia cathodes for Li-ion batteries”. Nature Energy 1, Article number: 16111 doi: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.111.

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$67 Oil Has All The Majors Converging in Argentina

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That means consumers are not reaping the benefits of cheap fuel. YPF will trim another 25 percent from its budget for 2016. He expects that costs will decline to $10 million per well in 2016. Article Source: [link]. Prices for light oil are set at $67 per barrel and natural gas prices fixed at $7.50

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KTH team develops new cost-effective water-splitting electrocatalyst for H2 production

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The new catalyst also offers a competitive, cheap alternative to catalysts that rely on more expensive, precious materials, such as iridium oxide (IrO 2 ) or ruthenium oxide (RuO 2 ). Water splitting is considered one of the most promising strategies to produce chemical fuels such as hydrogen.

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Univ. Houston, Caltech team develops new earth-abundant, cost-effective catalyst for water-splitting

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In an open-access paper in the journal Nature Communications, the team said that their advance provides a different pathway to design cheap, efficient and sizable hydrogen-evolving electrode by simultaneously tuning the number of catalytic edge sites, porosity, heteroatom doping and electrical conductivity.

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Baker Institute expert: crude-oil production increase a risky strategy for Saudi Arabia

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A number of factors are pushing Saudi Arabia to raise its crude-oil production capacity, but the wide range of potential outcomes suggests that such an increase is a risky strategy for the kingdom and the global environment, according to a new article by an expert from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. m b/d thresh- old.

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Stanford, SLAC team cages silicon microparticles in graphene for stable, high-energy anode for Li-ion batteries

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This new method allows us to use much larger silicon particles that are one to three microns, or millionths of a meter, in diameter, which are cheap and widely available. Finally they etched the nickel away, leaving just enough space within the graphene cage for the silicon particle to expand. 2015.29.

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The Technical Failure That Could Clear The Oil Glut In A Matter Of Weeks

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Between 2012 and 2016, Maersk had been working on field development, slated to have cost $1.5 His assessments are based on regional (OPEC) developments, as production of oil and gas in the so-called cheap oil regions is also under threat. billion, to sustain output at current levels.

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