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Pipeline Diplomacy Last Friday in Afghanistan, construction began on a $22.5 billion dollar natural gas pipeline that will stretch 1,127 miles and carry 33 billion cubic meters of gas per year. Here in the United States, a pipeline of that size would probably lead to public anger and protests. But in Central Asia, the opposite […]
Wave Power
You’ve heard of solar power and wind-generated power. But what about power that comes from ocean waves? That’s right: the U.S. government is spending up to $40 million to build a new wave energy test facility six miles off the coast of Newport, Oregon. But wave-generated power may be more complicated than it initially seems. […]