Energy News of the Week (Dec.30, 2013-Jan.5, 2014)
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< Asia >
Asia can't shy away from hard choices on energy use
South China Morning Post-2014/01/02
Energy is the lifeblood of economic growth. It keeps factories and offices running, ports and airports humming and shopping malls in business. Asia's extraordinary growth story has given the power-hungry manufacturing sector a starring role.
Energy rivals to face eased demand
The Japan Times-2013/12/31
Even as new renewable energy projects come online and changes in the law designed to increase competition and use power generated from all sources more efficiently start to come into effect this year, predictions for the nation's energy ...
< North America >
North America's real energy superpower. (Hint: it's not Canada)
Macleans.ca (blog)-2013/12/31
Yesterday the White House took to Twitter to boast that in 2014, for the first time in two decades, America will import less oil than it produces. Aside from the dubious notion that the Obama administration can claim responsibility for the ...
< South America >
Bolivia Wants Nuclear Energy, But Brazil And Other Latin American ...
International Business Times-2014/01/03
The Angra nuclear plant will remain as the sole of Brazil, since projects to build more were abandoned. WikiMedia. Tiny Bolivia, the poorest nation in South America, packs a punch -- or so says President Evo Morales, who welcomed the new ...
< Africa >
Weed Solutions for the Energy-Hungry Africa?
AfricanBrains-2014/01/02
When it comes to the thorny issues of finding new energy sources for an energy-hungry continent, local innovations unearth surprising solutions. Nigerian-born researcher from the Department of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry at the ...
< Europe >
UK opposition to new EU green energy targets could risk 'half a ...
The Guardian-著者: Adam Vaughan-2014/01/02
UK wants to chose the way it wants to reduce emissions, rather than EU forcing it to take the renewables-only approach. Photograph: Handout/AFP/Getty Images. Over half a million new jobs over the next two decades could be at risk from the ...
< Australia >
Australia sets sights on renewable energy for the future
Hydrogen Fuel News-2014/01/02
Renewable Energy Future Renewable energy has been making strong progress in Australia in recent years. The country has become a promising market for both solar and wind energy, despite the government making major changes to its ...