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Japan OKs fuel removal from pool at nuclear plant
Japanese regulators on Wednesday gave final approval for the removal of fuel rods from an uncontained cooling pool at a damaged reactor building considered the highest risk at a crippled nuclear plant. Removing the fuel rods from the Unit 4 cooling pool is the first major step in a decommissioning process that is expected to last decades at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, where three reactors ...
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The end of regulated electricity prices?
The end of regulated power prices - a major obstacle to a liberalised power market - could be in sight after EU energy ministers meet tomorrow. Ministers are expected to call on governments to consider phasing out price regulation, which would be a step towards power generating technologies competing equally on the market, bringing prices down for consumers. "Ending regulated power prices is ...
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Japan nuclear plant to begin removing fuel rods
Workers started removing radioactive fuel rods Monday from a reactor building at the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. The painstaking and risky task is a crucial first step toward a full cleanup of the earthquake and tsunami-damaged plant in northeastern Japan. The Unit 4 reactor was offline at the time of the March 2011 disaster, and its core ...
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Swift Fuels’ Unleaded Avgas UL94 to be Offered at San Carlos, California - Rabbit Aviation Services
Swift Fuels, LLC, a global leader in the development of high-performance unleaded aviation gasoline, today announced that Rabbit Aviation Services at San Carlos Airport has completed a planned upgrade to its aviation fuel tank facility and will be the first airport with a fully-dedicated Unleaded Avgas storage system in California to sell Swift’s unleaded UL94 aviation gasoline for its ...
By Siemens AG
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HydrogenPro’s partner, DG Fuels, signs 1,240 acre key land agreement in Maine
Reference is made to recent press release from DG Fuels regarding the execution of a long-term lease agreement with the Loring Development Authority for 1,240 acres of contiguous land in Aroostock County, Maine. This will be the site of DG Fuels’ second SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuel) facility, and the project will break ground in the Summer of 2024. The long-term lease agreement in Maine ...
By HydrogenPro
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NGVAmerica Applauds Congress for Introducing Legislation to Put Cleaner Trucks on U.S. Roads
NGVAmerica applauds Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH) for introducing the Natural Gas Truck Tax Parity Act of 2016, legislation that provides natural gas and other alternative fueled vehicles with a partial exclusion from the Federal Excise Tax (FET) imposed on heavy-duty trucks. The proposal would accelerate the growth of environmentally-friendly, clean-burning ...
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New nuclear tech `could benefit developing countries`
The world is on the brink of a nuclear power renaissance, and developing countries may also benefit, according to researchers. In a study published in Science this month (12 August) British researchers outlined a vision for flexible and more user-friendly nuclear technologies, as worries over the climate change, energy supply security, and depletion of fossil fuels, are overturning decades of ...
By SciDev.Net
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OECD and IEA recommend reforming fossil-fuel subsidies to improve the economy and the environment
Governments and taxpayers spent about half a trillion dollars last year supporting the production and consumption of fossil fuels. Removing inefficient subsidies would raise national revenues and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, according to OECD and IEA analyses. The G-20 Leaders in 2009 agreed to phase out subsidies that "encourage wasteful consumption, reduce our energy security, impede ...
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Mechanically energized: readily commercialized
Current conventionally powered vehicles, gasoline-electric hybrids, natural gas vehicles, biofueled vehicles as well as rechargeable battery electric, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell vehicles all have something in common: They’re refueled by way of a “tether” that links them to a stationary energy source. A hose is used to replenish a supply of gaseous or liquid fuels, or a cord is used to supply a ...
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European Commission buries new data on tar sand impacts
Canadian pressure for u-turn on EU clean fuel law Brussels, Belgium - A scientific report (1) for the European Commission, published online yesterday and then immediately withdrawn, has confirmed that carbon emissions from Canadian tar sand oil production are ‘significantly higher than...industry-average emissions from conventional fuels’. In 2008, the EU agreed a law setting a 10% ...
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Message from the EUBCE Conference General Chairman Prof. André Faaij
The deployment of biomass for production of power, heat, transportation fuels, renewable feedstock and materials has become one of the most complex, promising, politicized and debated options we have at our disposal to combat climate change and to create a sustainable energy system. State-of-the-art analysis strongly confirms the necessity of large scale biomass deployment to meet the maximum ...
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Do you still buy new oil? Start regenerate yours used oil
Do you still buy new transformer oil? Start regenerate yours used oil on oil regeneration plant UVR by PC Globecore and reduce your operating costs. YOU WILL SEE THE RESULT AND PROFIT Our fuel, oil cleaning units remove contaminates, such as acids, mercaptan, sulfur, aromatics and other impurities from diesel fuel and all light mineral oils such as transformer oil, industrial oil, turbine oil. ...
By GlobeCore PC
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Calif. utility will close troubled nuclear plant
The troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant on the California coast is closing after an epic 16-month battle over whether the twin reactors could be safely restarted with millions of people living nearby, officials announced Friday. Operator Southern California Edison said in a statement it will retire the twin reactors because of uncertainty about the future of the plant, which faced a tangle ...
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WBA Declaration to COP22
The World Bioenergy Association (WBA) proposes fossil exit strategy with a carbon tax as they key message to the delegates at COP22 in Marrakech. The World Bioenergy Association (WBA) calls on the delegates attending the 22nd Conference of Parties (COP22) at Marrakech, Morocco to act now with a managed yearly decline of fossil fuel use and implementing a carbon tax in each country to achieve the ...
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Environmental activists continue to mislead about ethanol
As is often the case, a new report from critics of biofuels promise immediate benefits from repealing current biofuel policies in favor of those that would take the world’s most productive cropland out of production. Moreover, the report seeks to castigate current biofuel technologies while giving fossil fuels and other dirty energy sources a free pass. “Most disappointing about the continuous ...
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Fulcrum BioEnergy Project Selected By The U.S. Department Of Agriculture To Receive $105 Million Loan Guarantee
PLEASANTON, Calif., Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture ("USDA") has awarded Fulcrum's Sierra BioFuels Plant a conditional commitment for a $105 million loan guarantee. With the loan guarantee finalized, the company will secure bank financing, which when combined with private equity capital provided by Fulcrum, will fully ...
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San Onofre nuke plant to close after bitter fight
The demise of California's San Onofre nuclear power plant began with an attempt to fix it. A $670 million equipment swap in 2009 and 2010 went haywire, leaving Southern California Edison on Friday with two idle reactors, more than $500 million in bills and a federal decision on a possible restart nowhere in sight. The company decided to close it, permanently. The announcement triggered a ...
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COP25: Leading renewable associations urge policy makers to increase ambition
Leading renewable associations urge policy makers to increase ambition REN Alliance Side Event on Renewable Technologies Working Together Madrid, 16 December 2019 – The leading global renewable energy industry associations have sent a clear signal to the UNFCCC negotiators about the crucial role of renewable energy technologies at the recently concluded COP25 climate conference in Madrid, ...
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Manitoba Government Working on Amendments to Biofuels Mandates
The government of Manitoba, Canada, is currently working to amend three regulations under the Biofuels Act. The amendments will update Manitoba’s clean fuel standards by increasing the ethanol and renewable fuel content in gasoline. The proposed amendments include: “Ethanol General Regulation is amended to: Include the latest fuel standards for ethanol blended gasoline; Remove ...
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EPA Endorses Schedule for Environmental Actions at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant
(New York, N.Y.) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator Alan J. Steinberg today announced his endorsement of a schedule for stopping the source of the leak from the spent fuel pool in Unit No.1 at the Indian Point Nuclear Generating Plant in Buchanan, New York. The work will be carried out by Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., the operator of the Indian Point plant, ...
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