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Eni report: global oil reserves and oil production up in 2018 due to US

Green Car Congress

The second volume, the World Gas and Renewables Review , focused on natural gas and renewables sources (solar, wind and biofuels), will be published in autumn. OPEC registered zero growth as production in the Arab Gulf countries were offset by losses in Iran and Venezuela due to geopolitical issues. also rose in Brazil and Norway.

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Fjords, Pharaohs or Koalas? Time to Plan for Your Next Eclipse.

Baua Electric

Are you still a little giddy from the magical moments of totality during Monday’s solar eclipse? Sahami joined the ranks of the eclipse-obsessed when she witnessed one in Venezuela in the 1990s. Total solar eclipses happen fairly regularly — about every one to two years — in locations scattered around the world.

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Chevron leveraging information technology to optimize thermal production of heavy oil with increased recovery and reduced costs

Green Car Congress

Chevron has already shifted to gas-fired co-generation plants to produce steam and export power to the California grid; it is also working on a solar concentrator pilot in New Mexico that would generate steam using sunlight to further reduce costs and environmental impact of its thermal production process.

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Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

Everybody knew then that renewables were unreliable: that wind power fully works less than one-third of the time, and that solar power is unavailable at night (of course) and less efficient on cloudy winter days. Presumably because the only forms of energy that ministers and civil servants respect are wind and solar.

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Why the Internet needs the InterPlanetary File System

Cars That Think

But in countries without the same level of investment in network infrastructure, the picture was less rosy: Internet service providers (ISPs) in South Africa and Venezuela , for instance, reported significant strain. That’s because most of their networks were overprovisioned, with more capacity than they usually need. We don’t think so.

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

Cars That Think

Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela. The situation is unlikely to get better anytime soon, for three reasons. during the summer, when usage is historically high.

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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles actually good for the environment?

Drive Electric

Ecotricity, which supplies electricity to the two main charging infrastructures in New Zealand, provide 100% renewable and carbon zero certified electricity – generated solely from wind, hydro and solar sources. New Zealand’s solar adoption currently sits at around 1.3% New Zealand’s solar adoption currently sits at around 1.3%