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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

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Nigeria’s rate (about 115 kWh) is an order of magnitude lower and there are many countries (Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Guinea, Niger, Somalia, South Sudan) where the mean is below or just around 50 kWh/year, or less than 1 percent of the affluent rate. What does 50 kWh/year deliver?

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The Technical Failure That Could Clear The Oil Glut In A Matter Of Weeks

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Saudi Aramco’s investment of $300 billion in the next 10 years will, in large part, be focusing on the new technology needed to keep existing projects running while opening up new volumes in the future. When looking at the Saudi situation, the need for new investments and increased technology development is clear.

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Oil Prices Running Out Of Reasons To Rally

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For the better part of two months, optimism surrounding the OPEC deal has buoyed oil prices, but bullish sentiment from speculators are showing early signs of abating, raising the possibility that the oil rally is running out of steam. by Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com. mb/d, because of some of these issues.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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As part of the job, in Oghara, Nigeria, then a small fishing village along the Niger River, he collected fares and directed passengers on and off the bus. The presence of oil and gas installations in his village, which is in the oil-producing part of Nigeria, led him to wonder how they worked and how they were remotely controlled.

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Tohoku researchers develop efficient hydrodynamic reactor for pretreatment of biomass

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For their study, the researchers used corn stover as the feedstock for the new HD-SP reactor as well as the US-SP process they had developed earlier, subjected the output to enzymatic saccharification using a mixture of cellulase from Trichoderma reesei and β-glucosidase from Aspergillus niger , and characterized the results.

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Micro-components in EVs: small dimensions and tight tolerances (Whitepaper) – Charged EVs

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