analysis By Mark Heywood We’re not just shedding electricity. South Africa is shedding its most valuable assets left, right and centre, and we’re going to pay the price. The Concise Oxford English Dictionary defines load-shedding as “the interrupting of an electricity supply to avoid excessive load on the generating plant”. The online Dictionary.com adopts a […]
February 4, 2015 Source: U.S. Department of Energy, Note: Energy usage includes both civilian and military agencies. The U.S. federal government, with thousands of facilities and vehicles in locations across the United States and abroad, is one of the largest energy consumers in the world, but that consumption is declining. The U.S. Department of Energy’s […]
February 3, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, EIA conducts a survey of gasoline prices each Monday, and yesterday’s survey showed the U.S. average regular retail gasoline price increasing for the first time in 18 weeks. The national price averaged $ 2.07/gallon on Monday, up 2.4 cents from a week earlier. The steady decline in […]
By Sophie Mbugua Kampala — Uganda’s largest slaughterhouse runs 24 hours a day, turning up to 700 cattle, 200 sheep and 300 chickens each day into meat for the local market. But the energy-thirsty Kampala City Abattoir is often brought to a stutter by the city’s daily power outages, which can last up to 12 […]
Source: Vanguard NGR
Algiers — The shale gas in Algeria must have a long-term position as a complementary resource in the national energy mix and should in no way be considered as “source of revenue,” export Abdelmajid Attar told APS. For the former CEO of Sonatrach, any technical and cost effective confirmation of shale gas in the next […]
When the International Symposia on Waterjet Cutting (ISJCT) began (back in 1972) the uses of the tool were severely limited, both by the pressures available to customers, and by the limited knowledge of the capabilities of the system. Skip forward four decades and while the various tools available have widely broadened (the maximum pressure we […]
By Peter Adamu The Energy Regulation Board (ERB) has effective midnight tonight Friday, 30th January announced a Low Sulphur Gasoil price reduction. ERB Board Chairman Pastor Geoff Mwape in a statement issued to QFM News that the price for Low Sulphur Gasoil has been reduced by 83 Ngwee per litre from K10.72 to K9.89 representing […]
January 30, 2015 Source: Ephesus Lighting Inc., used with permission Before the start of the 2014 NFL regular season, University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona, home to Super Bowl XLIX, retrofitted 312 high-performance light-emitting diode (LED) stadium light fixtures. The LED fixtures replaced more than 780 metal halide high-intensity discharge (HID) fixtures and will illuminate […]
PhD student Collen Zalengera is from a poor rural community on Likoma Island in Lake Malawi. He is the first member of his family to be educated to secondary level. In this film, he speaks about the problems he encountered in trying to conduct his research in Malawi, talks about the benefits of studying at […]
January 29, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information AdministrationNote: Includes only announced projects. Some high-risk projects excluded based on feasibility questions. Between 2014 and 2018, U.S. petrochemical capacity expansion projects are projected to increase domestic demand for and favorable petrochemical feedstock prices in the United States relative to the international market. The petrochemical industry uses hydrocarbon […]
analysis By Rafael Marques De Morais Throughout the Angolan capital, Luanda, strategically located billboards announce a country being happily stewarded through development by the government. “Building a prosperous Angola based on solidarity”, is the boastful slogan across all ads celebrating the government’s achievements in all spheres of life. One such billboard celebrates “more electricity, more […]
January 28, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Following a short-lived price increase in November, natural gas prices have dropped to their lowest levels since September 2012, reflecting strong domestic production and inventory builds. The 2013-14 winter’s sustained cold weather and and almost one trillion cubic feet (Tcf) lower than five-year (2009-13) average levels. Prices […]
There was a story that is told in Mining Engineering classes about a tunnel that collapsed, even after there had been a whole series of tests carried out to make sure that the rock was strong enough before the tunnel excavation was started. In working out why the tunnel had collapsed some questions were raised […]
Photo: Eskom Megawatt Park (file photo). Johannesburg — Eskom will implement stage one loadshedding from mid-Tuesday morning, the parastal announced. The utility posted on its Twitter feed shortly after 9am: “Eskom will implement loadshedding stage 1 from 10.30am today. It is likely to continue until 10pm. We will give updates throughout the day”. Earlier on […]
