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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

Green Car Congress

The research concentrates on two aspects: maximizing the production of liquid fuel and reducing the carbon intensity of oil shale-based power and heat generation. Besides Estonia, countries with large oil shale reserves include Australia, Brazil, China and Russia.

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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

EV Info

Rush to switch to low carbon generation. Slashing gas storage facilities. No new nuclear power plants operational. Right now, production is low in Russia, so the cost has increased. We also need more power storage in the form of batteries and other technologies to store power when the sun shines and the wind blows.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. This may be the lowest cost energy storage solution just because we are going to make the batteries anyway. the biggest cuts anywhere in the world.

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