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Report Finds Water Stress Rapidly Becoming Key Strategic Risk to Commerce; Impending Water/Energy Collision

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Water consumption or withdrawals per unit of energy produced, by energy type, in the United States. With increasing frequency ,” write the Pacific Institute researchers, “ we value energy production over water production. ”. by Jack Rosebro. Source: DHI Group. Click to enlarge. Climate change.

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Renault makes public its lifecycle study of Fluence ICE vs Fluence EV

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water, and non-renewable energies (crude oil, coal.) Quantifies the quantity of energy (crude oil, coal.) Raw materials extraction and transformation were based on data for the average production of lithium carbonate from brine (Chile) and lithium carbonate from spodumene (Australia). consumption. ?.

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Oyster Wave Power Machine Generates Electricity Onshore; Sea Trials Begin This Autumn

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The oscillator is fitted with pistons and, when activated by wave action, pumps high-pressure water through a sub-sea pipeline to the shore. Onshore, conventional hydroelectric generators convert this high-pressure water into electrical energy. Dr Ronan Doherty, Chief Technical Officer of Aquamarine Power , developer of the Oyster.

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Fincantieri and Enel Green Power Italia to explore use of green hydrogen in ports and long-range maritime transport

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Enel Green Power is committed to the creation and development of projects for the production and use of green or renewable hydrogen, derived from the electrolysis of water powered exclusively by renewable electricity.

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BG Group sanctions US$15B coal seam gas to LNG project; first such

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First LNG exports are planned to commence from 2014, underpinned by agreements in Chile, China, Japan and Singapore for the purchase of up to 9.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent—with 2P (proved plus probable) reserves now estimated at 7 tcf. Those contractors include: Bechtel Oil and Gas, Inc., mtpa of LNG. Become a 2.5%

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Global investment in renewable power reached $270.2B in 2014, ~17% up from 2013; biofuel investment fell 8% to 10-year low

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billion) were all in the top 10 of investing countries while more than $1 billion was invested in Indonesia, Chile, Mexico, Kenya and Turkey. billion, the largest single renewable energy asset finance deal ever, outside large hydro—that of the 600MW Gemini project in Dutch waters. Additional to China, Brazil ($7.6

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Gulf oil giants Saudi Aramco, Adnoc set sights on lithium – ET Auto

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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates’ national oil companies plan to extract lithium from brine in their oilfields, in line with efforts to diversify their economies and profit from the shift to electric vehicles (EVs), three sources told Reuters. The kingdom has established its own EV brand Ceer, and built an EV metals plant.