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Just 10 rivers may be to blame for millions of tonnes of ocean plastic0
- Climate Change, Domestic & International news
- 16/10/2017
Just 10 rivers – eight of them in Asia – may be responsible for dumping almost four million tonnes of plastic into the seas every year.
Calculating with the precision the source and amount of plastic trash in the oceans …
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Koncar takes over from Strabag job of building HPP Vranduk0
- Hydropower
- 18/09/2017
READ MOREThe newspaper’s edition recalls that such an outcome was announced after it became clear that the current leader of the consortium, Austria’s Strabag,…
Trump Says ‘Solar Wall’ on Mexican Border Would Pay for Itself0
- Solar Energy
- 23/06/2017
“We’re thinking of something that’s unique, we’re talking about the southern border. Lots of sun, lots of heat,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “We’re thinking about building the wall as a solar wall, so it …
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Smart grid project trebles renewable generation on Shetland0
- Green Energy
- 13/06/2017
The £18 million Northern Isles New Energy Solutions (NINES) project combined domestic demand side management (DSM) with a 1MW battery at Shetland’s main power supply, Lerwick Power Station, and new monitoring and control systems to form an advanced Active Network …
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Xi stresses clean energy development0
- Sustainable Development
- 08/06/2017
He made the remarks in a congratulatory letter to the Eighth Clean Energy Ministerial and the Second Mission Innovation Ministerial, which opened in Beijing Wednesday.
Clean energy development is crucial to the improvement of energy structure, energy security and the …
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A World-First Power Plant Generates Energy By Consuming Carbon Dioxide0
In Texas, a NET Power team is working towards building a power plant that runs off a form of carbon dioxide instead of steam. This would be the first plant of its kind. If successful, it could lead a massive …
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Renewable Energy Powers Jobs for Almost 10 Million People0
- Domestic & International news, Green Energy, News
- 06/06/2017
Growth has slowed in the past two years, while the solar photovoltaic category, with 3.09 million jobs, and wind business more than doubled their respective employee numbers since 2012, the first year assessed, Irena said in the report.
“The nature …
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Greek isle Tilos to switch to renewable energy storage0
- Green Energy, Sustainable Development
- 05/06/2017
The program vies to make the island e independent in the energy sector in a few years.
Tilos currently relies on oil-based electricity from neighbouring Kos via an undersea cable that is however vulnerable to faults, especially with rough sea.…
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company released pictures of new electric vehicle concept0
- Sustainable Development
- 01/06/2017
Although the images appeared without description on the company’s website this week, the vehicle is reminiscent of one that appeared in a video Musk premiered during his TED talk in Vancouver in late April, included below. (The vehicle can be …
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