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Statoil signs cooperation agreement with Rosneft; Arctic and onshore

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Statoil and Rosneft signed a cooperation agreement under which the companies will jointly explore offshore frontier areas of Russia and Norway and conduct joint technical studies on two onshore Russian assets. The licence covers 23,000 square kilometers in water depths of 150-250 meters. Sea of Okhotsk. Statoil in the Arctic.

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China’s New Breeder Reactors May Produce More Than Just Watts

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Liquid sodium is used as a coolant because it does not slow down neutrons as much as water does. Not so in China, India, and Russia. Starting even earlier, Russia has built two fast breeder reactors, which are still operating today. Weapons-grade plutonium can be separated chemically from the blanket.

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Green Hydrogen Cars: How They are Different?

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To put it another way, instead of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen with electricity, these two components are joined to make water and electricity The electricity is then utilized to power the car’s drive train, leaving just water as a waste product. Hydrogen has a long history of working with industry.

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IHS Markit: annual investments in green hydrogen production to exceed $1 billion by 2023

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Operating capacity for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen through electrolysis technology currently stands at 82 MW with a pipeline of more than 23 GW, according to the IHS Markit Power-to-X tracker. 6 European countries, the European Commission, Russia and Chile have all released hydrogen strategies since May 2020.

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SpaceX’s packed 2022 launch manifest ready to blow 2021 out of the water

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On its own, Falcon 9 launched six more times than the entire country of Russia. Going off of recent trends, which have seen SpaceX’s annual cadence grow from 21 (2018) and 26 (2020) to 31 (2021), 35-40 launches would be a still more conservative estimate for 2022. All #SpaceX 's launches in one picture.

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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John Snow's 1854 Broad Street map of cholera contagion in London was not only instrumental in identifying lessons learned—the most important being that cholera was transmitted via the water supply—but also in improving policymaking during the crisis. Most organizations delete data after a certain period.

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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“With these materials finally becoming commercially available, we realized that we didn’t need to make additional physics breakthroughs,” says Mumgaard, who cofounded CFS in 2018 and is now the company’s CEO. “In The team kept the magnet energized in a steady state for about 5 hours. “We

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