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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
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
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

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
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

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 

Author:J C Kapur
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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