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| RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES: SITUATION AND PROSPECTS |
| Subject:Environment/Oil/Energy |
Issue No:Vol 10 No 1, Spring 2006 |
The escalating financial, political and environmental costs associated with the dependence on fossil-fuels are forcing most nations to invest in all available alternatives, especially renewable, ecologically  |
| Author:Ashok Parthasarathi |
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| THORIUM: PREFERRED NUCLEAR FUEL OF THE FUTURE |
| Subject:Environment/Oil/Energy |
Issue No:Vol 10 No 1, Spring 2006 |
One of the most promising options for nuclear power generation is the thorium-based fuel cycle. India is a global leader in this technology which offers several advantages, compared to the 'classical' uraniumbased process, in terms of economy and fuel efficiency. It also makes secret military nuclear |
| Author:Ramtanu Maitra |
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| OIL AND GAS DRILLING |
| Subject:Environment/Oil/Energy |
Issue No:Vol 10 No 1, Spring 2006 |
The extraction of a very large proportion of the oil and gas deposits of our planet may be partly to blame for the increase in the number and intensity of earthquakes and for some of other natural disasters Author:Robert L Cook |
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| GEOPOLITICS OF PIPELINE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS IN EURASIA |
| Subject:Environment/Oil/Energy |
Issue No:Vol 10 No 1, Spring 2006 |
Global energy politics favour Russia’s plans to become the foremost exporter of oil and gas to the Asia-Pacific region and to lead a consortium of Central Asian energy-rich states that could soon rival or balance OPEC. The Russian state is implementing an ambitious strategy to that end by building pip |
| Author:Igor Tomberg |
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| RUSSIA IN A MULTI-POLAR ENERGY WORLD |
| Subject:Environment/Oil/Energy |
Issue No:Vol 10 No 1, Spring 2006 |
Russia is striving to use its vast energy resources as a foundation for diversified economic and industrial development. To that end the country should give priority to the domestic utilisation of its fossile-fuel Author:Yury K Shafranik |
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| AVAILABLE ENERGY RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPERATIVES |
| Subject:Environment/Oil/Energy |
Issue No:Vol 10 No 1, Spring 2006 |
More than ever we must take stock of the present and future global energy demands and of the available resources to satisfy them. It appears that a combination of many different systems of power
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| Author:J C Kapur |
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| A NEW ENERGY PARADIGM FOR THE THIRD MILLENNIUM |
| Subject:Environment/Oil/Energy |
Issue No:Vol 10 No 1, Spring 2006 |
Economic and environmental conditions require us to seek global, long-term energy security based on renewable, non-polluting sources and technologies. The era of fossil-fuels is gradually drawing to an end.&n |
| Author:Mikhail Y Pavlov |
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