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Publish date: April 12, 2005
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Mayor of Moscow made this announcement on the First International conference Alternative sources of energy for large cities. He also said that the world oil resources are depleting, that is why we should start to finding solutions for energy alternative sources already now, as it is a large complex scientific and technical problem, Biznes-neft VPS reported.
The mayor Moscow thinks that future belongs to hydrogen fuel, but gas, synthetic diesel fuel and dimethyl ester will dominate in transitional period to the hydrogen fuel. The next 100-200 years can become a new gas epoch on the Earth. Luzhkov also thinks that the most important task now is to involve Russian oil companies in alternative fuel development.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
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