Year: 2021

Models show Earth’s heat loss is higher on one side of the planet

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A team of researchers at the University of Oslo has found evidence that shows Earth’s heat loss is more pronounced on one side of the planet than the other. In their paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the group describes creating models that represent Earth’s heat loss over the past 400 million years and what they showed. Prior research has shown that heat inside of the Earth makes its way to the surface, where it dissipates. Heat inside the Earth comes about from the degradation of radioactive elements and…

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China gifts 500,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine

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ISLAMABAD: China on Thursday announced a gift of 500,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine for Pakistan. “China would provide 500,000 doses of vaccine by Jan 31,” Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said after a telephone conversation with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. He said the first consignment of vaccines was being given as a “grant assistance” and goodwill gesture by China. The vaccine being provided by China is manufactured by the state-owned firm Sinopharm and is said to boast an efficacy of 79 per cent. The vaccine has been approved for…

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Pakistan- Solar power can fix chronic electricity outages in merged areas: study

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It is vital to rethink electrification strategy in the merged areas beyond Tribal Electricity Supply Company (TESCO) grid-connected operations and to help erect a vibrant, fair, and equitable market for a distributive generation that can supplement grid electricity, a study by the UNDP’s Merged Areas Governance Project (MAGP) suggests. Merged Areas Electrification Diagnostic Study was launched in an event held in Islamabad by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) entitled ‘A dialogue on Rethinking Electrification in the Merged Areas. The event was joined by the senior government officials from concerned…

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Punjab govt plans to convert all public sector power connections on solar energy

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Punjab government has a plan to shift all public sector electricity connections on solar energy in near future to promote clean and green energy vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan in the country. Official sources told APP here Tuesday that the provincial government had shifted 10,500 government schools on solar energy and now all the basic health units were being switched to solar energy in next stage. They said that the Punjab government has also a plan to shift all public sector universities on solar system besides converting all public…

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LNG charter rates drop to record lows, support strong US LNG dispatches this spring

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The S&P Global Platts assessed daily LNG tanker charter rates have dropped to an all-time low of $25,000/d for an Atlantic Basin tanker just two months after touching an all-time high of $300,000/d in January. The effective round-trip cost for an Atlantic Basin spot charter is now just $15,625/d, given that the ballast charge has also declined to around 25%. o put this in perspective, the previous low for Atlantic Basin charter rates was assessed last summer during the peak of US LNG cancellations, where the effective round-trip cost dropped…

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