World Energy Headlines (Dec.4-8, 2013)
2020/07/31
< Asia >
China's Factory Owners Look for Energy Savings
Energy Collective-2013/12/07
Factory bosses in China are looking at ways to cut costs through greater energy efficiency. A recent article in Bloomberg Businessweek reports that for decades after China started trading with the United States in 1979, most factory managers ...
Japan Without Nuclear Boosts Pollution, Costs: Climate & Carbon
Businessweek-2013/12/05
An employee stands in front of stockpiles of coal inside a storage yard at a coal-fired power station in Fukushima, Japan. With 50 atomic plants off-line, coal use rose 26 percent from a year ago in October, and the government backtracked on a ...
< North America >
America's energy boom has been great for trade. Jobs, not so much.
Washington Post (blog)-著者: Neil Irwin-2013/12/04
New trade data out Wednesday provided good news: The nation's trade deficit narrowed to $40.6 billion in October, down from a revised $43 billion in September. But the reasons for the smaller trade gap in October--and throughout 2013 to ...
< South America >
Despite reforms, Brazil and Mexico lack energy investment
Financial Post-2013/12/04
The latest International Energy Agency (IEA) report features Brazil as both a world leader in renewable energy and soon to be a major exporter of oil. The Inter-American Development Bank's June report claims that Latin America and the ...
< Africa >
5 Energy Treasures in Africa You Haven't Heard About
Global Voices Online-2013/12/05
Electricity supply problems are once again news in several African countries with recurring power outages in Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire and Madagascar, to name just a few of those most recently affected. In Benin, a private Nigerian ...
< Europe >
EU research on how data centres can use more renewable energy ...
IDG News Service--2013/12/07
A ?3.6 million (￡2.9 million) EU project investigating how data centres can be designed and operated to make more efficient use of renewable energy has been launched. Latest news from Hardware Systems ・ EU research on how data centres ...
< Australia >
Four Possible Scenarios For Australia's Energy Future
CleanTechnica-著者: Joshua Hill-2013/12/06
A new report published by the Future Grid Forum has outlined four possible scenarios which could represent the way Australia's national electricity system may grow. The Forum brought together more than 120 representatives from the ...