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• Daily Update – Energy Prices for Close of Business: 3/22

  22-03-2017 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
    Futures & Indexes  Last  Change %Change WTI Crude  $     48.18 0.14 +0.29% Brent Crude  $     50.87 -0.32 -0.63% Mars US  $     46.51 -0.26 -0.56% Opec Basket  $     49.23 0.05 +0.10% Canadian Crude Index  $     35.79 -0.09 -0.25% DME Oman  $     49.64 -0.22 -0.44% Urals  $     46.35 -1.66 -3.46% Mexica
  
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• 100 Days: Access To Arctic Energy Key To U.S. Security

  22-03-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The enormity of Alaska’s energy potential – onshore and offshore – may be difficult for most Americans to fully grasp. Consider: An area the size of a metropolitan airport within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is estimated to hold between 4.3 billion and 11.8 billion barrels of oil – though that assessment is nearly
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• Two Bankruptcies, One Signal to Investors?

  22-03-2017 14:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  The recent bankruptcies of two clean energy companies has kept the renewable energy sector on its toes. While these events may not be enough to provide a clear trend in the sector, it is keeping clean energy investors on their toes for what is to come in this industry.  This past week has been difficult for clean
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• Virginia to Utilize Old Coal Mines for Hydropower

  22-03-2017 13:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  The coal industry may be dying, but the skeletons left behind in the form of abandoned mines can provide new life. The water left behind by the once industrious business is planned to be used by the state of Virginia, in the development of pumped storage hydro-electric power plants. However, this particular strategy to source
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• Daily Update – Energy Price for Close of Business: 3/21

  22-03-2017 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Below are the energy prices for the end of the day, March 21st, 2017.
  
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• Pulverizing electronic waste is green, clean — and cold

  22-03-2017 05:50
  
  This story is a little left field, but simplistic and solves a growing problem especially in Asia
  Researchers at Rice University and the Indian Institute of Science have an idea to simplify electronic waste recycling: Crush it into nanodust.
  Circuit boards from electronics, like computer mice, can be crushed into nanodust by a cryo-mill, according to researchers at Rice University and the Indian Institute of Science. The dust can then be easily separated into its component elements for recycling
  
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• Spinning sail technology

  22-03-2017 01:59
  
  Over 200 years after steamships first began crossing the ocean, wind power is finding its way back into seafaring. Global shipping firm Maersk is planning to fit spinning “rotor sails” to one of its oil tankers as a way of reducing its fuel costs and carbon emissions. The company behind the technology, Finnish firm Norsepower, says this is the first retrofit installation of a wind-powered energy system on a tanker.
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  Yet the idea of using these spinning cylinders on ships to
  
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• New gel-like coating beefs up the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries

  22-03-2017 01:11
  
  Many of these stories on battery enhancements may seem small steps, but their impact is amplified by the deduction in costs seen in the last few years. A small step like this can make a huge difference in the longevity of lithium-ion batteries in vehicles and for grid storage. Improve the longevity and you improve the economical viability.
  Yale scientists have developed an ultra-thin coating material that has the potential to extend the life and improve the efficiency of lithium-sulfur batteries
  
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