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The potential of small nuclear reactors
Small modular reactors could make nuclear energy accessible to more countries, but their viability still has to be tested on a wider scale.
18 March 2022
Small modular reactors could make nuclear energy accessible to more countries, but their viability still has to be tested on a wider scale.
Many technologies needed for the green transition exist, but there are still significant hurdles before they can be deployed at the scale needed to reach net-zero emissions in the coming decades.
After a brief sluggish period in August 2021, when oil prices reversed the gains made in June and July, by the fall prices regained momentum.
It is hard to imagine that natural gas was once an unwanted fuel. “What is worse than finding a dry hole? A gas discovery!” – early oil explorers reportedly quipped.
Iraq is a textbook example of the problems of high dependence on a single sector – that is, hydrocarbons. In fact, the Iraqi economy is one of the most oil dependent in the world.
Modern history is peppered with energy shocks, shortages, price spikes and panics.
In its latest climate change assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change – concluded that “human influence has warmed the climate at a rate that is unprecedented in at least the last 2000 years.
Hydrogen has become the linchpin of green energy transition strategies in many parts of the world. However, there is still no infrastructure that could accommodate wide-scale hydrogen use, and fossil fuels remain the most common energy source for production…
There is an alternative universe sitting on the northeast shoulder of South America. As the global economy…
In March 2021, a new crude futures contract was launched in Abu Dhabi: Murban futures, traded on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)…
We are all tired of being told how dreadful the virus-riven 2020 turned out to be, and it certainly ended for Britain fairly uncomfortably, with Christmas virtually abolished, ports jammed, and British air-travellers barred form fifty countries…
In November, new vaccines showed great promise in fighting Covid-19, and the exhilaration was clear in markets around the world. However, the enthusiasm was not sustained…