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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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The oil price shocks of the 1970s led the Brazilian government to address the strain high prices were placing on its fragile economy. Brazil, the largest and most populous country in South America, was importing 80% of its oil and 40% of its foreign exchange was used to pay for that imported oil. by Brian J.

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PBL analysis finds that resources are not depleted, but expensive; badly functioning markets and wrong policies

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This scarcity, however, has little to do with stock depletion; badly functioning markets and wrong policy reactions play a particularly important role, according to a new analysis by the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. Thus, scarcity is created on the resource market, which leads to high and fluctuating prices.

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Global investment in renewable power reached $270.2B in 2014, ~17% up from 2013; biofuel investment fell 8% to 10-year low

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A key feature of the 2014 result was the rapid expansion of renewables into new markets in developing countries. As in previous years, the market in 2014 was dominated by record investments in solar and wind, which accounted for 92% of overall investment in renewable power and fuels. The US was second at $38.3 Third came Japan, at $35.7

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The Game-Changing Water Revolution: Interview with Stanley Weiner

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On the desalination front, Netherlands-based Salttech has developed breakthrough technology called Salttech DyVaR, for which STW has the exclusive license in North America. It can clean up the oil industry’s frack flowback water and the dirty water produced by oilfields, and it can also desalinate ocean water.

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