Science and Technology
Science and Technology: research and development that provides access to clean energy and improves the efficiency of fossil fuel use. News: Key trends in the world of energy.
Second Europe lockdown of little environmental benefit
Europe’s second lockdown, introduced in response to the new wave of the COVID pandemic, produced a much more modest reduction...
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Norway offers licences for shelf oil/gas blocks
Norway is seeking applications for licences to operate 136 oil and gas blocks on the shelf of the Norwegian and...
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Saudi Arabia seeks to become major hydrogen exporter
The first Saudi shipment of “blue hydrogen”, a form of the fuel that captures the carbon dioxide by-product, was sent...
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Shale – constantly in the mix
The fundamental principles of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, were initially devised in the Soviet Union. But in recent years, they...
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Rosatom starts shipping wood pellets to Italy
Uranium One, a subsidiary of Russia’s nuclear power authority Rosatom, has made its first shipment of 3,000 tonnes of wood...
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Professor Ioana Ionel about energy storage technologies in an interview with the Global Energy Association
The problem of energy storage is a crucial one in modern energy science.
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