Something very unusual took place in 2014, that changed the course of the global economy. In June 2014, global oil prices began to fall. Brent Oil prices almost reached $115 in late June, and then began to fall precipitously. In early October 2014, with Brent prices about 20% lower at $90 per barrel, the PIRA …
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http://www.business-standard.com/article/reuters/india-builds-solar-plants-atop-canals-to-save-land-water-115011600609_1.html Sometimes solutions come along that are fiendishly clever in their elegance. This is one such. One of the big costs of implementing a solar power plant is the cost of land. This is particularly true in a country like india where land acquisition is fraught with politics and endless publicised fights between farmer, politician and …
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If you were to type, as I suspect many of my students did, "Solutions Climate change problem", you would receive around 79 millions responses from Google. Most of these boil down to 10-12 main solutions that maybe categorized as follows. Changes in power generation Use less coal Increase % of nuclear power Increase alternative energy …
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