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Publish date: March 7, 2006
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According to the US Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman, the money is to be spent on researches, aimed to eliminate technical and production difficulties in serial hydrogen cars production. The Minister underlined that this initiative assorts with politics of George Bush, aimed to stimulate energy development, decrease pollution to the atmosphere and the country’s dependence on oil export.
Nowadays hydrogen cars production and operation is several times expensive than ordinary cars. The White House hopes that hydrogen cars will be more available and cheaper in 20 years, ITAR TASS reported. The US Secretary of Energy, Research Council on Transport and three main car concerns – “Ford”, “General Motors” and “Daimler Chryslers” are responsible for such work.
According to Bodman, about 100 million dollars to be spent on researches, connected with hydrogen engine production during the nearest four years. The American President announced a Program of mass hydrogen vehicles production. It is a five-year Program, which costs 1.2 billion dollars.
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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