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Why North Dakota Is Like Iran, Iraq, Nigeria & Russia: Wasted Natural Gas

Green Car Reports

If North Dakota were a country, it would rank fifth behind Russia, Nigeria, Iran, and Iraq on the list of worst natural-gas wasters, according to the World Bank. An editorial in The Forum of Fargo-Moorehead blasted the North Dakota natural-gas industry for wasting valuable resources through flaring.'

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The Mountain and Mohammed: Halliburton Moves HQ to United Arab Emirates

Plugs and Cars

billion of the $10 billion in contractor waste and overcharging in Iraq.". This should help their bottom line, suffering under the numerous Bush/Cheney time no-bid contracts. And by the way, "Federal investigators last month alleged Halliburton was responsible for $2.7

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RAND reports suggest US DoD use less petroleum fuel to deal with high prices, not count on alternatives

Green Car Congress

Bartis and RAND colleague Lawrence van Bibbe were the authors of a 2011 RAND report concluding that if the US military increased its use of alternative jet and naval fuels that can be produced from coal or various renewable resources, including seed oils, waste oils and algae, there would be no direct benefit to the nation’s armed forces.

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AFED report: state of water resources in the Arab world is precarious and worsening

Green Car Congress

By 2015, the only countries in the region which will still pass the water scarcity test, at above 1,000 cubic meters per capita, will be Iraq and Sudan – and even that assumes that water supplies from Turkey and Ethiopia will continue to be sustained at their present levels. Arabs cannot afford to waste a single drop of water.

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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

Green Car Congress

Subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption of fossil fuels jumped to over $400 billion. The largest increase in oil production comes from Iraq, followed by Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Kazakhstan and Canada. The number of people without access to electricity remained unacceptably high at 1.3 billion, around 20% of the world’s population.

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Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?

Cars That Think

Take, for example, this case described by a Marine who served in Iraq: My team once had a robot that was obnoxious. So of course then we had to call EOD [personnel] out and waste their time and ours all because of this stupid little robot. It would frequently accelerate for no reason, steer whichever way it wanted, stop, etc.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. E.ON’s Mr. Ewert says one winning technology could be biogas, which can be fermented from farm and domestic waste or even sewage, and then be piped through existing gas networks. Alternative is no longer an alternative.

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