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The world's largest gas exploitation vessel will be bigger than a carrier
With the goal of oil exploitation outside the ocean, Shell has planned to build the largest ship ever. It was named Prelude FLNG.
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Turn garbage into oil
A Japanese inventor built a machine to produce crude oil from waste plastic.
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Production of biodiesel from mushrooms
According to research published in the Energy and Fuel magazine of the American Chemical Society, in the process of searching for raw materials ...
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Boiler using byproducts
In 2007, Dr. Nguyen Thanh Quang - Da Nang Polytechnic University successfully fabricated badly circulating fluidized bed boiler.
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Use plastic from corn or beans for making pig feed mills
Iowa State University chemistry professor Richard Larock pulled out a thin, square piece of a neatly labeled bag of what he called plastic made from corn, soybeans and o…
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Oil history
In the Middle East, hydrocarbures were first used. According to the Bible, it is the asphalt (asphalte or bitume) that the boat has (calfater) for his ship (arche) and t…
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Technical advances of the lighthouse
When the lighthouses were automated, the final problem was how to make the technical team able to access them most quickly when inspecting, maintaining periodically or w…
Computer science
Turn digital photos into various pictures with Virtual Painter
Want to enjoy your beautiful digital photo collection in the form of a variety of fancy paintings? Graphic tools 'Virtual Painter' is probably the first choice for your…
Computer science
China makes the world's fastest supercomputer
China began to develop a supercomputing system capable of performing over a billion billion calculations per second, 10 times faster than the fastest computer in the wor…
Computer science
The virus continues to attack Arab oil and gas networks
According to RasGas spokesman, this is a strange unknown virus that attacked the office computer network from August 27. But fortunately this cyber attack does not affec…
Computer science
Viruses are capable of breaking down power plants and oil refining systems
Named Duqu by Symantec, the virus is capable of breaking the control system of power plants, refineries and other important infrastructure networks.
New technology
Electric lights, solar lights ... and humanity now has gravity lights
There are more than 1 billion people in the world who don't know electric light. They have to use oil lamps - not bright enough, both harmful to health and the environme…
New technology
First transatlantic flight by bio-gas
Hainan Airlines on November 21 successfully completed its first transatlantic flight with biofuels.
New technology
Sunflower oil helps the road surface to
Every year the UK has to spend 88 million pounds to fill the elephant and potholes on the road. Therefore, sunflower oil is considered a suitable cost measure when it co…
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Electric cars can cause environmental problems
The British and French governments last month pledged to ban the sale of petrol and oil vehicles before 2040. Sweden's Volvo carmaker also said it will only sell electri…