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Iran, Iraq, Syria sign $10B gas pipeline deal

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Iran, Iraq, and Syria have signed a deal for the construction of the Middle East’s largest gas pipeline, which would carry gas from Iran’s South Pars gas field to Europe via Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon and beneath the Mediterranean Sea. Iraq has said that it needs 10 to 15 million cubic meters of Iranian gas per day.

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Biden authorizes release of more than 180M barrels of oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve; 1M bpd for 6 months

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In an effort to address the rapidly increasing cost of gasoline, President Biden authorized the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day for the next six months—more than 180 million barrels—from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Bush authorized a drawdown of 33.75 2005 Hurricane Katrina Sale.

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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

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Crane also mentioned that one-quarter to one-third of the cost of a battery system is the packaging, integration and electronics. How much does it cost to save weight? Honda believes it will be a help in climbing stairs or industrial operations that require a lot of squatting. Storage Temperature. Driving Temperature.

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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 cost of fossil-fuel subsidies has been driven up by higher oil prices; they remain most prevalent in the Middle East and North Africa, where momentum towards their reform appears to have been lost. Iraq accounts for 45% of the growth in global oil production to 2035 and becomes the second-largest global oil exporter, overtaking Russia.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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The two World Wars solidified the for-profit prosthetics industry in both the United States and Western Europe, and the ongoing War on Terror helped catapult it into a US $6 billion dollar industry across the globe. soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Civil War (during which.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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The 450 Scenario works back from the international goal of limiting the long-term increase in the global mean temperature to two degrees Celsius (2 °C) above pre-industrial levels, in order to trace a plausible pathway to that goal. The share of biofuels in total transport fuel demand rises from less than 3% today to just above 6% by 2035.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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military took hold of the concept, and in its hands, those simple drones morphed into Predators and Reapers , bomber-size machines that flew missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and each cost millions of dollars (if not tens of millions). But a technologically powerful country needn’t count the cost; the United States certainly didn’t.

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