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EIA: China is now the world’s largest net importer of petroleum and other liquid fuels

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Because production levels from Iran, Libya, and Sudan and South Sudan dropped since 2011, China replaced the lost shares of crude oil and other liquids imports from these countries with imports from Oman, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Angola, Venezuela, and Russia. million barrels per day.

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

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Nighttime satellite images show that the heart of the continent remains in darkness: electrification rates are less than 5 percent in Chad and the Central African Republic, and the rates remain below 50 percent in such populous countries as Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Sudan. What does 50 kWh/year deliver?

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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set to launch Egyptian communications satellite

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ton (~9000 lb) geostationary communications satellite designed to provide large swaths of the Middle East, North Africa, East Africa, and Sudan with communications and digital broadcasting services. Built by Franco-Italian aerospace company Thales Alenia Space, Nilesat 301 is a fairly standard 4.1-ton

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

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HAMMING MEDAL Sponsor: Qualcomm MADHU SUDAN Harvard “For fundamental contributions to probabilistically checkable proofs and list decoding of Reed-Solomon codes.” IEEE RICHARD W. IEEE MEDAL FOR INNOVATIONS IN HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY Sponsor: IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society JAMES G.

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Leclanché, eCAMION and SGEM to build and operate network of 34 fast-charging stations along Trans-Canada Highway

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Bryan Urban, EVP of Leclanché North America, will serve as president and Himanshu Sudan CFO of eCAMION will serve as CEO of the joint venture. ., to manage the TCH project and further expand the implementation of EV charging systems across North America.

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Ethiopian Dam Generates Power, but What's Next?

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There’s even talk of selling power to neighboring countries — though the dam is located hundreds of kilometers from any major city, and it’s not clear if Ethiopia’s grid can handle GERD’s peak power, let alone transmit current to Sudan or Kenya. Before any of that, the 50-billion-cubic-meter reservoir in GERD’s wake needs to fill up.

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

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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. The figure drops to below 100 cubic meters in six countries.

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