While two of the girls of Pussy Riot are on the way to their respective prison camps, to sit out their disproportionate sentence for hooliganism, a historic deal is going down in Russia. State-controlled Russian oil company Rosneft has struck a two-part deal worth about $55 billion, to buy privately-owned TNK-BP and make British oil company BP a near-20 percent Rosneft shareholder, with two seats on the board. Rosneft, which is already Russia’s top oil producer, will control almost half of Russia’s oil output and pump more oil and gas than Exxon Mobil, the world’s top international oil company. Looks like Rosneft is definitely the winner in this little scenario, gaining a lot of credibility with a western partner on the board and everything, but there must be a catch somewhere. I am sure of it. Only a matter of time till we find out.
Well it’s official. The UCI, International Cycling Union, has stripped Lance Armstrong of all his seven Tour de France titles today. UCI president Pat McQuaid said: “Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling. He deserves to be forgotten.” Armstrong has continued to deny the allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs, but in August he said he would no longer fight the doping charges handed down by the USADA. The entire US team was accused of using the banned hormone EPO. Even the Dutch banking Group Rabobank had enough, and ended its 20 year sponsorship of the sport. It is indeed a sad day for cycling and its fans.
An amazing breakthrough has been achieved by UK scientists! They have found a way to extract carbon dioxide from air, and mix it with water vapor to create a cleaner, clearer gas, that can be used in existing cars and other forms of transport. A company called Air Fuel Synthesis says it has made five liters of gas so far using a small, electric refinery, but it hopes to create a larger operation powered by solar or wind energy that could produce up to a ton of gas a day within two years. If it works on a large scale, the process could not only help ease the energy crisis but clean up the environment as well. Now it is just a matter of time until we can convince the oil producers of our world to give up their billions upon billions of dollars in profit – and switch over to cleaner energy.
While two of the girls of Pussy Riot are on the way to their respective prison camps, to sit out their disproportionate sentence for hooliganism, a historic deal is going down in Russia. State-controlled Russian oil company Rosneft has struck a two-part deal worth about $55 billion, to buy privately-owned TNK-BP and make British oil company BP a near-20 percent Rosneft shareholder, with two seats on the board. Rosneft, which is already Russia’s top oil producer, will control almost half of Russia’s oil output and pump more oil and gas than Exxon Mobil, the world’s top international oil company. Looks like Rosneft is definitely the winner in this little scenario, gaining a lot of credibility with a western partner on the board and everything, but there must be a catch somewhere. I am sure of it. Only a matter of time till we find out.
Well it’s official. The UCI, International Cycling Union, has stripped Lance Armstrong of all his seven Tour de France titles today. UCI president Pat McQuaid said: “Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling. He deserves to be forgotten.” Armstrong has continued to deny the allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs, but in August he said he would no longer fight the doping charges handed down by the USADA. The entire US team was accused of using the banned hormone EPO. Even the Dutch banking Group Rabobank had enough, and ended its 20 year sponsorship of the sport. It is indeed a sad day for cycling and its fans.
An amazing breakthrough has been achieved by UK scientists! They have found a way to extract carbon dioxide from air, and mix it with water vapor to create a cleaner, clearer gas, that can be used in existing cars and other forms of transport. A company called Air Fuel Synthesis says it has made five liters of gas so far using a small, electric refinery, but it hopes to create a larger operation powered by solar or wind energy that could produce up to a ton of gas a day within two years. If it works on a large scale, the process could not only help ease the energy crisis but clean up the environment as well. Now it is just a matter of time until we can convince the oil producers of our world to give up their billions upon billions of dollars in profit – and switch over to cleaner energy.