The Virtual Tribune
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Peak Oil Demand? The Energy Transition and the Future of Petroleum
ROME, July 9 — The shift is here. For decades, the theory of peak oil meant the moment…
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Biodiesel: Rudolf Diesel’s Vision of Vegetable Oil Fuel Realized
PARIS, July 9 — The shift is older than most people realize. More than 125 years ago, at…
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New Horizons: From Pluto Flyby to Kuiper Belt Exploration
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., July 9 — The spacecraft that reshaped humanity’s understanding of the solar system’s outer reaches…
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Fusion energy firm raises $1.8 billion in largest private investment ever
CAMBRIDGE, July 9 — Commonwealth Fusion Systems, the private fusion company spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of…
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SpaceX’s Revenue Boosters: Falcon Rockets, Dragon Spacecraft & Starlink
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 9 — SpaceX has quietly built a business that is far more than just rocket…
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Economist Warns US-Iran Talks Risk Oil Price Spikes Like Trump’s China Deals
WASHINGTON, July 9 — A senior economist is drawing a pointed comparison between the current U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations…
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Xylem, Evoqua, IDE Technologies Lead Water Tech Innovation
NEW YORK, July 9 — $5.2 billion. That single figure tells you where the money is flowing in…
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JHU Applied Physics Lab Manages New Horizons Since 2001
LAUREL, Maryland, July 9 — In the sprawling, low-slung buildings of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory,…
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Iran’s Crude Oil Exports Plummet Over 80% Under Sanctions
TEHRAN, July 9 — Iran’s position as a major player in global oil markets has grown more precarious,…
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Dr. Barabaschi Leads ITER Fusion Project Toward First Plasma
CADARACHE, July 9 — Against the backdrop of the Provencal countryside, the world’s most ambitious energy experiment is…
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Alan Stern Leads New Horizons to Solar System’s Edge
BOULDER, July 9 — The strategic calculus behind NASA’s most audacious outer solar system missions has a single,…
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What Happens Next: New Horizons’ Path to the Heliopause and Beyond
LONDON, July 9 — New Horizons, the spacecraft that gave us Pluto’s face, is now in the middle…
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Global Freshwater Crisis Worsens as Desalination Tech Expands
LOS ANGELES, July 9 — The figure that matters: 2 billion. That is the number of people globally…
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Deep Quake Hits Off Leyte, Felt Across Broad Region
MANILA, July 9 — A magnitude 5 earthquake struck about 19 kilometers east-northeast of Abuyog, Philippines, on Thursday…
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Diesel Engines Fueled WWII Axis and Allied Logistics
LONDON, July 9 — The shift is hiding in plain sight under the Atlantic. When we talk about…
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NASA Probe Nears Heliopause, Poised to Leave Solar System
LAUREL, Maryland, July 9 — The silence of the void is about to get a new listener. Out…
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Voyager 1 and 2 Cross Heliopause, Reveal Cosmic Findings
PASADENA, July 9 — The two Voyager spacecraft, launched from Earth in the late summer of 1977, remain…
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NASA Probe Nears Heliopause, Set to Be Third Object to Leave Solar System
LAUREL, Maryland, July 9 — The New Horizons spacecraft is quietly rewriting the record books as it pushes…
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National Ignition Facility Achieves Fusion Breakthrough in Landmark Experiment
LIVERMORE, Calif., July 9 — Strategically, the United States has held a card in the global energy and…
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Atmospheric Water Generation Turns Thin Air into Drinking Water
NEW YORK, July 9 — The figure that matters: $13.5 billion by 2028. That is where the global…
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Beijing maintains rare earth dominance amid global supply gap
BEIJING, July 9 — China’s grip on the global rare earth market is a decades-long story of strategic…
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John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Empire Forged Modern Oil Industry
NEW YORK, July 9 — The calculus of American industrial power has rarely been embodied by a single…
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Economist Warns U.S.-Iran Talks Risk Oil Price Spikes Like Trump’s China Deals
WASHINGTON, July 9 — The ongoing negotiations between the United States and Iran are beginning to look like…
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King Abdullah’s Energy Gambles and Social Reforms Shape Saudi Legacy
RIYADH, July 9 — King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who ruled Saudi Arabia from 2005 until his…
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