◆190217 China Is Reportedly Building a Solar Power Station in Space
ScienceAlert-18 時間前 https://bit.ly/2BCNcJK
China's Academy of Space Technology is working on an orbital power plant that would capture solar energy in space and beam it back to Earth. ... pursuing space-based clean energy shows that China is committed to its ongoing push towards using more renewable energy ... But right now, the plan is to have solar arrays in space capture light from the sun and then beam electricity down to a facility on ...
◆190217 Disarmament efforts must include China as well as US, Russia: Merkel
ABS-CBN News-4 時間前 https://bit.ly/2SHAOCK
MUNICH - China must be involved in international disarmament efforts, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday, amid rising concern about Beijing's missile arsenal and the suspension of a key US-Russia arms treaty. Fears that the ...
◆190217 230000 Died in a Damn Collapse That China Kept Secret for Years
OZY-53 分前 https://bit.ly/2V1vvur
But despite the fact that water levels at the Banqiao Dam had far exceeded a safe capacity, and a number of sluice gates ... of dams built, which put people to work, provided electricity and tamed rivers as part of his brutal Great Leap Forward. After swimming across the Yangtze River in 1958, Zedong penned a poem about his obsession with dams: “Great ... But when China's Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power released a study in July 1989, it reported that the dam breach ...
◆190217 UK chancellor pulls out of trip to China
Financial Times-18 時間前 https://on.ft.com/2tonlk3
The UK chancellor has cancelled a planned trip to China, in a sign of bumps in the relationship between the two countries ... partners in things like civil nuclear power, partners in new international bodies like the Asian Infrastructure Investment ...
◆190217 Try And Try Again: Philippines Resurrects LNG Ambitions
OilPrice.com-11 時間前 https://bit.ly/2BDmbWw
On Thursday, news broke (again) that the Philippines is trying to build its first operational liquefied natural gas (LNG) project. Manila-based Phoenix Petroleum said it was in talks with state-owned Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) for a ...
◆190217 India's Modi set to ask visiting Saudi prince for cheaper oil
Nikkei Asian Review-20 時間前 https://s.nikkei.com/2EeV31B
NEW DELHI -- India is likely to ask Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for cheaper oil when he ... in November on the sidelines of the G-20 summit, during which Modi stressed the importance of having stable energy ... Other possible areas of discussion between the leaders are defense and security, including counterterrorism, and investing in renewable energy. ... The crown prince's visit is part of an Asian tour that includes Pakistan, China, Malaysia and Indonesia.
◆190217 India Plans First Ever 1 Gigawatt Offshore Wind Tender For Gujarat
CleanTechnica-10 時間前 https://bit.ly/2SEOqP1
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) plans to hold the first ever offshore wind energy auction in the country for a 1 gigawatt project in the western state of Gujarat. SECI recently signed an agreement with the Gujarat government to set ...
◆190217 US indicates concerns over India buying Venezuelan oil have been
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ETEnergyworld.com-1 時間前 https://bit.ly/2TXiXo0
Earlier this week, Bolton had said that countries "will not be forgotten" for buying oil from Venezuela. ... consequences that countries like India could face for continuing to purchase oil from Venezuela, Bolton indicated that the issue might have ...
◆190217 SoftBank grabs a chunk in India's wind power pie
Economic Times-20 時間前 https://bit.ly/2TTwHQu
Softbank has bagged the largest chunk of a 1,200 MW wind power tender concluded Friday, which has marked the company's foray into the wind sector at a time when constraints around availability of land and transmission infrastructure are ...
◆190217 What are India's options against Pakistan after Kashmir attack?
Aljazeera.com-11 時間前 https://bit.ly/2SXkY69
With India's general election barely months away, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under heavy pressure from his ... India's first public reaction to the attack was to withdraw the most-favoured nation (MFN) trade status given to Pakistan and ... The Times of India newspaper reported on Saturday that the military options - short of two nuclear-armed rivals going to ... But the conflict intensified after Modi came to power in 2014 amid rising attacks by Hindu hardliners against minorities in ...
