Tiedä vielä miten käy, mutta joka tapauksessa kovasti on projekteja jo lähtenyt tai ainakin lähtemässä käyntiin ympäri maailmaa. Ohessa lyhyitä juttuja sieltä täältä, mikäli jotain kiinnostaa. Yhdessä jutussa UCG:tä kehuttiin termillä "clean coal", mutta imagosta pohjavesien pilaajana voi hyvinkin tulla UCG:n akilleen kantapää.
An energy firm has announced plans to extract gas from under the waters of the Firth of Forth following a major coal find. Cluff Natural Resources said a report by independent assessors estimated there were up to 335 million tonnes of coal under the seabed. It now plans to build the UK's first deep offshore underground coal gasification (UGC) plant. But environmental group WWF Scotland said the move was "irresponsible" and should be "a complete non-starter".
'Major' coal find under Firth of Forth
Epätoivo lisääntyy Saksan pääkaupungin Berliinin uuden lentokentän rakennushankkeessa. Nyt mietitään millä aikataululla kenttä on mahdollista ottaa käytttöön, tai pahimmassa tapauksessa otetaanko sitä ikinä käyttöön. Berlin-Brandenburg-lentokentän piti valmistua syksyllä 2011. Nyt runsas kolme vuotta myöhemmin kuitenkin vasta 15 prosenttia rakennustöistä on valmiina.
Rakennustöitä ovat hidastaneet muun muassa jopa 20 000 rakennusvirhettä, turvajärjestelmien puutteet ja viimeksi projektin teknologiajohtajan Jochen Grossmannin pidättäminen ja tuomitseminen vuoden vankeustuomioon lahjonnasta ja petoksesta.
Epätoivo kasvaa - Avataanko Berliinin 5,4 miljardin euron suurkenttää ikinä?
FINNARP 2014 tutkimusretkikunta valmistautuu parhaillaan matkustamaan Aboalle, joka on Suomen oma Etelämantereen tutkimusasema. Ryhmä tutkii retken aikana Etelämantereen jäätikköjärviä, meteorologiaa, lunta ja pienhiukkasia.
Suomalainen tutkimusretkikunta lähtee Etelämantereelle
A British-led consortium has outlined its plans to land a robotic probe on the Moon in 10 years' time. Its aim is to raise £500m for the project from donations by the public.
In return, donors would be able to have photos, text and their DNA included in a time capsule which will be buried under the lunar surface. They will also be able to pay for an immortality of sorts by sending up a strand of their hair, which the project team claim could survive for one billion years.
UK 'to lead moon landing' funded by public contributions
The EPR under construction at Flamanville in northern France is now expected to begin operating in 2017, EDF has announced. The company attributed the further delay to the delivery of certain components and regulatory issues.
The announcement of the further delay in construction of the Flamanville EPR came as Areva said it was suspending its financial outlook for 2015 and 2016. Areva said the suspension was the result of several factors. These include the rescheduling of the completion of the Olkiluoto EPR and uncertainty about when it would receive payments from its customer, TVO.
Flamanville start-up put back one year
Construction began on Shin Wolsong 2 in 2008 and was completed in 2013, but NSSC withheld permission for the reactor to start up following a discovery in May of that year that safety-related control cabling with falsified documentation had been installed at four reactors.
Shin Wolsong 2 fuel loading completed
Ohessa hiukan juttua metaaniklatraattivarantojen hyödyntämiseen tähtäävästä tutkimustyöstä, jota eri puolilla maailmaa tehdään.
Japan extracts gas from methane hydrate in world first
NETL: Methane Hydrates - DOE/NETL Projects
Jos vierailla planeetoilla on syntynyt elämää, se saattaa käyttää veden sijaan ylikriittistä hiilidioksidia. Tutkijat huomasivat, että eräät entsyymit ovat jopa vakaampia ylikriittisessä hiilidioksidissa kuin vedessä. Lisäksi entsyymit näyttivät toimivan valikoidummin sen suhteen, minkä molekyylien kanssa ne sitoutuivat. Tämä johti pienempään määrään ei-haluttuja sivureaktioita. Koska hiilidioksidi on erittäin yleinen aine planeettojen kaasukehissä, tutkijoiden mukaan sitä saattaa olla ylikriittisessä muodossa monilla eksoplaneetoilla.
Vieras elämä saattaa turvautua ylikriittiseen hiilidioksidiin
The 170-mile shipping route from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean, traversing Nicaragua, is expected to take five years to complete, with ground scheduled to be broken in December.
£24bn rival to Panama Canal to break ground this year
When fully built, Prelude will be the largest floating facility ever created, weighing more than 600,000 tonnes.
Shell said it had already started work on an even bigger facility.
Shell's record-breaking Prelude takes to the water
On se massiivinen - pituus 488m, leveys 74m, korkeus 105m. Terästäkin on käytetty 260 000 tonnia. Tuohan on siis hinattava LNG-laitos.
The Caribbean FLNG project, which is expected to be the world’s first operational FLNG facility, is being delivered by Wison Offshore & Marine (Wison) at its yard in Nantong under an engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) contract with EXMAR. The unit comprises a non-propelled barge that will be operated off the Caribbean coast of Colombia for Pacific Rubiales Energy and equipped to convert 72.0 million scf/d of natural gas into LNG (+/- 500,000 tons of LNG per annum) for temporary storage and export.
World’s First FLNG Undocked in Nantong
In September, the China Geological Survey – the government agency that oversees geological and energy research – announced that by 2030, commercial extraction of methane from gas hydrates, also known as ‘flammable ice’, will begin in China. Gas hydrates are chemical lattices in which small molecules – including gases such as methane – are locked up in a network of hydrogen bonded water molecules and are found in permafrost and ocean sediments. They represent an enormous and as yet untapped source of fuel, and vast reserves have been identified in the South China Sea and northwestern Qilian Mountains. It is estimated that in total, China may be sitting on gas hydrates equivalent to 110 billion tonnes of oil. Last year, the entire country’s energy consumption was equivalent to 2.6 billion tonnes.
China Looks to Alternative Hydrocarbons to Fuel its Future
Talouspoliittinen ministerivaliokunta käsitteli 25. marraskuuta valtion osallistumista Soklin kaivoksen edellyttämien liikenneinvestointien rahoittamiseen. Talouspoliittinen ministerivaliokunta totesi, että valtio on valmis aloittamaan neuvottelut Soklin kaivoksen edellyttämistä liikenneinvestoinneista siten, että kaivos voisi aloittaa toimintansa vuonna 2020.
Ministerivaliokunta päätyi tukemaan Soklin kaivoksen liikenneyhteydeksi suoraa junakuljetusvaihtoehtoa.
Valtio valmis neuvottelemaan Soklin kaivoksen junakuljetusyhteyksien rahoittamisesta
Yksi maakaasuvoimalaitos poistuu kuvasta Kotkassa, kun Pohjolan Voima purkaa Mussalon voimalaitoksen. Käytöstä poistetun laitoksen piippu kaatuu noin klo 11 jälkeen. Yle Kymenlaakso välittää tapahtuman suorana.
Pohjolan Voima purkaa voimalaitoksen Kotkassa - Yle Areena
We demonstrate that the detrended annual means of global surface air temperature in 1965–2012 show the maxima during CRs and Dst index minima. It proves that CRs play essential role in climate change and main part of climate variations can be explained by Pudovkin and Raspopov’s (1992) mechanism of action CRs modulated by the solar activity on the state of lower atmosphere and meteorological parameters. Following this we have to seek for another ways of looking for global warming reason, first of all, as a man impact on climate.
Evolution of Dst index, cosmic rays and global temperature during solar cycles 20–23
Zig-zag patterns found on a fossilised shell in Indonesia may be the earliest engraving by a human ancestor, a study has claimed. The engraving is at least 430,000 years old, meaning it was done by the long-extinct Homo erectus, said the study. The oldest man-made markings previously found were about 130,000 years old.
If confirmed, experts say the findings published in the journal Nature may force a rethink of how human culture developed. One of the report's authors, Stephen Munro, told the BBC it could "rewrite human history".
Indonesian shell has 'earliest human engraving'
A 400,000-year-old stone object unearthed in Morocco could be the world's oldest attempt at sculpture.
'Oldest sculpture' found in Morocco
A lion-headed figure, called the lion man, is an ivory sculpture that is both the oldest known zoomorphic (animal-shaped) sculpture in the world, and the oldest known uncontested example of figurative art yet discovered. The sculpture has also been interpreted as anthropomorphic, giving human characteristics to an animal, although it may have represented a deity. The figurine was determined to be about 40,000 years old by carbon dating material from the same layer in which the sculpture was found. The sculpture is 29.6 cm in height, 5.6 cm wide, and 5.9 cm thick. It was carved out of mammoth ivory using a flint stone knife.
Lion man of the Hohlenstein Stadel
Venäläinen matkapuhelinvalmistaja Yota julkisti noin kaksi vuotta sitten ensimmäisen YotaPhone-puhelimensa, joka sisälsi muista älypuhelimista poiketen kaksi näyttöä. Ideana oli laittaa puhelimen takapuolelle e-ink-näyttö, joka ei normaalin näytön tapaan rasittanut silmiä tai kuluttanut virtaa. Näin ollen puhelimen takaosa soveltui hyvin esimerkiksi pitkien tekstien lukemiseen ilman, että virtaa kului merkittävästi.
Tässä markkinoiden todellinen yllättäjä: uudessa älypuhelimessa kaksi näyttöä ja minimaalinen virrankulutus
Oulussa kehitetty venäläinen älypuhelin Yotaphone tulee myyntiin 20 Euroopan maassa vielä tässä kuussa. Suomessa sen voi jo tilata verkkokaupasta.
Kahdesta täysikokoisesta näytöstä tunnettu Yotaphone on saanut runsaasti huomiota, mutta sen saatavuus on ollut rajoitettu. Moskovassa pidetyssä tilaisuudessa ilmoitettiin Yotaphone 2 -mallin tulosta saataville Euroopassa. Yotaphone 2 maksaa Suomessa 700 euroa.
Kaksinäyttöinen Yotaphone 2 tuli myyntiin
Work is about to begin on the next stage of a pioneering underground 'Noah' Ark' in Siberia to protect endangered seeds using the natural cold of permafrost. Costing 227 million roubles, the project will see up to 1.5million samples from around the world housed in a special cryostorage facility built deep below the earth.
Unique in the world, this permafrost cooling system will safeguard of much of the world's food supply and plants in the face of climate change, war and disaster. A vault containing 100,000 seeds, mainly from Siberia, already exists on the site, in the Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia, but the new extension will make it the largest anywhere on the planet.
Extension planned to pioneering 'Noah's Ark' project to protect rare seeds
Nyt se on tapahtunut: Kiinasta on tullut maailman suurin talous. Kun eri talouksien taloustuotantoa vertaa "reaalisesti" eli ostovoimakorjatusti, Kiina tuottaa tänä vuonna 17,6 biljoonan eli 17 600 miljardin dollarin edestä tuotantoa, kun taas Yhdysvallat jää 17,4 biljoonaan dollariin.
Se on tapahtunut: Kiinasta tuli maailman suurin talous
Culture ministry says it will press charges against activists for damage to world heritage site as UN climate talks began in Lima. He said the government was seeking to prevent those responsible from leaving the country while it asked prosecutors to file charges of attacking archaeological monuments, a crime punishable by up to six years in prison.
The activists had entered a strictly prohibited area beside the figure of a hummingbird among the lines, the culture ministry said, and they had laid down big yellow cloth letters reading “Time for Change! The Future is Renewable” as the UN climate talks began in Peru’s capital.
“This has been done without any respect for our laws. It was done in the middle of the night. They went ahead and stepped on our hummingbird, and looking at the pictures we can see there’s very severe damage,” Castillo said. “Nobody can go on these lines without permission – not even the president of Peru!”
Greenpeace apologises to people of Peru over Nazca lines stunt
Discovery of blood in creature frozen for 43,000 years is seen as major breakthrough by international team.
EXCLUSIVE: Siberian scientists announce they now have a 'high chance' to clone the woolly mammoth
State officials say the project, which could potentially be the largest coal mine in Australia and one of the largest in the world, will play a major role in opening up Queensland's resource-rich Galilee Basin. It is forecast to produce 60 million tonnes of thermal coal a year for export.
The project is expected to contribute some Aus$2.97 billion to the Queensland economy each year for the next 60 years, and generate thousands of jobs. "It is estimated the project will provide electricity for up to 100 million people in India," Hunt added.
Australia approves huge India-backed mine
India, the world's third-largest buyer of overseas coal, may be able to stop imports of power-generating thermal coal in the next three years as state behemoth Coal India steps up production, Power and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday.
Goyal: may stop thermal coal imports in 2-3 years