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Making every shower an electric storm

Here’s something residents of cloudy Northern Europe should appreciate: a way of using rain to generate power.

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Turkmenistan To Supply Gas to Afghanistan

Turkmenistan and Afghanistan presidents discussed prospects for a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India via Afghanistan.

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Kosovo’s Energy Sector to Get Clean with World Bank Support

On June 28 the World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a US$5 million grant in additional financing for the Kosovo Energy Sector Clean-up and Land Reclamation Project.

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Japanese Electric Power Firms to Use LNG

Japanese electric power companies plan to establish eight plants fueled by liquefied natural gas in the next five years, a move aimed at slashing carbon dioxide emissions, a report said Sunday, May 6th.

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Brazil's Petrobras Increases its Energy Supplies in Brazil

Brazil's national oil and gas giant Petrobras announced on Friday that it had signed a contract to lease a thermoelectric power plant in Sao Paulo state for 17 years.

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Strain has major effect on high-temp superconductors

Just a little mechanical strain can cause a large drop in the maximum current carried by high-temperature superconductors, according to novel measurements carried out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

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Probing NASA's plans for a lunar colony

The success of NASA's plans for a permanent human outpost on the moon may depend on the availability of technology that exploits the moon's environment and natural resources to obtain essentials like electric power, according to an article scheduled for the Feb. 5 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, the ACS' weekly newsmagazine.

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