US Navy to prepare for demonstration of KHPS technology

By TidalToday.com

The US Navy held two public scoping meetings regarding a proposed tidal energy kinetic hydropower system (KHPS) demonstration project in Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound, offshore of Marrowstone Island, Washington.

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Westinghouse, GE-Hitachi to Win India Nuclear Order, Nikkei Says

BY Bloomberg

Westinghouse Electric Co. and a venture between General Electric Co. and Hitachi Ltd. will likely win orders for two nuclear power plants in India, …..

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Sixty countries considering using nuclear power: IAEA

By The Times of India

As many as 60 countries are considering using nuclear power as a source of energy, United Nations’ nuclear watchdog International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Thursday.

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Brazil to resume construction of 3rd nuclear power plant

BY China View

The construction of Brazil’s long-delayed third nuclear power plant, Angra 3, will resume in September, the president of the country’s nuclear power company Electronuclear, Othon Luiz Pinheiro, said on Friday.

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DOE, RTI to Design and Build Coal Syngas Cleanup System for IGCC Power Plants to Reduce Cost of Removing Contaminants, Capturing CO2; Potential for Synthetic Chemicals and Fuels

BY GreenCarCongress.com

Extending a relationship of more than a decade, the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International will collaborate on a project designed to advance the development of coal power plants with near-zero emissions by reducing the cost and improving the efficiency of capturing CO2 and removing contaminants from syngas derived from coal.

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More funding urged to raise the production of transportation fuels from coal

By IM-Mining.com

An early draft of a new report from America’s National Academy of Sciences (NAS) urges the federal government to ramp up funding to support the development and deployment of technologies that can help transform coal into liquid transportation fuels.

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Magma Energy (TSX: MXY) acquires interest in Icelandic Geothermal Energy Producer

BY Scandinavian oil.gas magazine

Magma Energy Corp. has signed an agreement to acquire from Geysir Green Energy a minority interest in HS Orka, a large producing geothermal company in Iceland.

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Canadian Company Acquiring Coal-To-Liquids Company

By NYTimes.com

A Canadian company is acquiring the Australian energy firm that has proposed a $7.4 billion coal-to-liquids plant on Montana’s Crow Indian Reservation.

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Posco (NYSE:PKX) and SK Energy to invest for coal conversion

By Reuters

South Korea’s POSCO (005490.KS) and SK Energy (096770.KS) will spend 3.35 trillion won ($2.69 billion) to convert coal to synthetic natural gas, chemicals and liquid for the first time in Korea to reduce its oil and gas imports, joining oil majors in investing in such new technology.

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Offshore Wind Potential in the United States

By Windustry.org

In June, a large-scale floating turbine was installed off the coast of Norway by companies StatoilHydro and Siemens. The floating turbine, dubbed the Hywind, is located in water that ….

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