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Moscow aiming for all-electric bus fleet by 2032

Green Car Congress

Starting this year we are going to buy the e-buses only—we seek to make our city as clean and harmless for its citizens as we can. Obviously not only the rest of Russia but also the European countries try to attain to our level, since even now there are more e-buses in Moscow than in other European capitals. Earlier post.).

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Nuclear Energy Brinkmanship in Ukraine

Cars That Think

A battle of nerves and steel is raging at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, which Russia captured in March. Nikolai Steinberg, a former chief engineer at Chernobyl and member of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s governing board, called running the plant “a crime” in an email interview with IEEE Spectrum.

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The time has come to get off petroleum

Plug in America

And Russia is just today’s example of oil exporters fueling wars. It rarely crosses international borders and it mostly pays for local jobs. When you buy electricity, you are investing in building out the grid, renewable power generation and charging infrastructure. But it’s not just war.

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SpaceX to launch Varda Space’s first Rocket Lab-derived ‘space factory’ satellite

Teslarati

While far from the commercial orbital laboratory many at NASA would like to paint it as, the joint NASA-Russia International Space Station (ISS) routinely hosts payloads from paying customers, some of which are focused on manufacturing (albeit at an absurdly low volume) materials that can only be made in microgravity (i.e.

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Opinion: China To Continue Expanding Its Influence In The Oil And Gas Sector

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Since 2009, China has been taking a much more active role in its pursuit of international oil contracts. China’s other recent mid-stream pipeline deal was made with Russia. The pipeline will transport crude oil from Russia to Daqing, China. by John Manfreda for Oilprice.com. John Manfreda received his MBA at Trinity University.

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Russia deems SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 safe to launch cosmonauts

Teslarati

Having prematurely canceled the Space Shuttle in 2011, the US had inexplicably forced itself – entirely of its own volition – into a situation where the only way it could crew the space station it helped spend $100 billion to build was to buy seats on Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

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IEA WEO-2012 finds major shift in global energy balance but not onto a more sustainable path; identifies potential for transformative shift in global energy efficiency

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The global energy map is changing significantly, according to the 2012 edition of the Internal Energy Agency’s (IEA) World Energy Outlook ( WEO-2012 ). North America emerges as a net oil exporter, accelerating the switch in direction of international oil trade, with almost 90% of Middle Eastern oil exports being drawn to Asia by 2035.

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