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India’s ties with Saudi Arabia are set to scale new heights through enhanced bilateral investments and intensified energy cooperation between New Delhi and Riyadh, the Petroleum Minister, Mr Mani Shankar Aiyar has said.
It is now approaching four years since Cape Wind filed for a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit to build the largest, most ambitious offshore wind energy project in the world.
The People’s Republic is on the fast track to become the car capital of the world. And the first alt-fuel superpower.
Yemen’s economy could survive without policy adjustments in the short term but falling oil production means the government would have to make economic corrections further down the road, the International Monetary Fund said yesterday.
The interesting question about the advent of $50-a-barrel oil is whether it signals a new era in the economics and politics of energy. To sharpen the question: have we entered a period when, owing to consistently strong demand and chronically scarce supplies, prices have moved permanently higher?
Marine sediments in the northern Gulf of Mexico are likely too warm and salty to hold the amount of methane gas hydrates – a potential energy resource – originally thought to exist in the ocean floor there.
What is the nature of the connection between an ill-planned war in Iraq; the steadily increasing pressure on dissent in the United States; the ongoing estrangement between the United States and its traditional allies; the increasing strains with the country’s Canadian neighbor; and the forbearance shown to China as opposed to the increasing distrust of Russia?
The controversy over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a side issue. The problem we need to face is the impending world oil shortage. (NY Times Op-Ed!)
Can you really generate all your own energy for the home? Of course, say a couple who built an eco house to prove it. Dominic Murphy hears their recipe for bringing power to the people.
Subir Raha, the government-appointed head of India’s biggest oil company, said the U.S. would be “stupid” to attack Iran and risk imposing record oil prices on the global economy.
Might we really need nuclear power? Hannah Bullock cuts through seven layers of loose thinking in search of a firm conclusion.
Reactors in many UK nuclear power stations are in danger of developing cracks in their graphite cores. This could force some plants to close down earlier than expected, dealing a blow to the idea that nuclear power can become a “green” option in the fight against global warming.
