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BNEF, Snam, IGU report finds global gas industry set to resume growth post-pandemic; low-carbon technologies for long-term growth

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However, the resulting low gas prices, as well as clean air and climate policies, will promote further switching to gas from other more polluting energy sources, such as oil and coal. LNG imports reached 482 billion cubic meters in 2019, up 13% from 2018, and while this figure is expected to fall by around 4.2% MMbtu in Russia, $8.7/MMbtu

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U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

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Mercury is otherwise found as a by-product of other processes, such as the burning of coal. In 2018, an employee at Apollo Fusion approached the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit that investigates environmental misconduct in the United States.

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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(Important to recall, on the other hand, that a 2010 Spectrum story on the future of nuclear energy contained this projection: “NuScale is in talks with several undisclosed utilities and expects a first plant to be operational in 2018.”) Rolls-Royce hopes to get the first of its reactors on the grid by 2029. “I

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