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Australia: Uranium price spike may take years to trickle down

Analysts say it will take many years for a dramatic spike in uranium prices to filter through to the operators of Australia's existing uranium mines.

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Armenia Leads The Way In Using Cleaner Car Fuel

Armenia Leads The Way In Using Cleaner Car Fuel

Cut off from world energy markets, Armenia is making a virtue of adversity and may be leading the world in using cleaner car fuel, officials say. While the European Union is looking at 2020 before 10 percent of vehicles there will use alternative fuel, in Armenia up to 30 percent of cars already run on clean compressed gas, officials here say.

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The Impact Of Renewable Energy On The Electric Power Grid

Submitted by Armen Hareyan on Mon, 2006-11-13 05:44.
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With a $1.23 million grant, researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be creating a distributed power "test-bed" to study how the electricity distribution grid might be affected by the widespread adoption of clean, renewable energy sources.

The two-year project, which is funded by the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR), is designed to help understand the potential effects of meeting New York state's key alternative energy goal -- by 2012, more than 25 percent of power generation through renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and fuel cells.

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