Month: November 2010

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India’s oil demand to jump 40% in next 10 yrs: PM

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1 Nov, 2010, 12.25PM IST,PTI NEW DELHI: Projecting a growth of 40 per cent in India’s oil demand in next decade, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today stressed on securing energy supplies at affordable prices to meet requirement of rapidly expanding economy. “India needs adequate supplies of energy at affordable prices to meet the demand of its rapidly growing economy,” he said inaugurating the Petrotech-2010 oil and gas conference here. India , which consumed over 138 million tonnes of fuel in 2009-10, imports three-fourth of its oil needs and one-third of…

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Future batteries could be charged with sun power instead of electricity

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Thanks to a molecule called fulvalene diruthenium, batteries may use the sun to provide energy, but not in the same way as solar power. Here’s how it works: The molecule, fulvalene diruthenium, undergoes a structural change when it absorbs sunlight, putting it into a higher energy state where it can remain stable indefinitely. This state is analogous to that of a rubber band that’s stretched and then put some where where it stays stretched out for any desired length of time. In the case of fulvalene diruthenium, the molecule can…

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