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Louisiana Light • 1 day | 86.60 | -0.08 | -0.09% | ||
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 88.73 | -1.64 | -1.81% | ||
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Opec Basket • 1 day | 87.35 | -2.29 | -2.55% | ||
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Mars US • 168 days | 77.67 | -1.57 | -1.98% | ||
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Gasoline • 10 mins | 2.718 | +0.004 | +0.15% |
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 88.73 | -1.64 | -1.81% | ||
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Girassol • 1 day | 89.30 | -1.63 | -1.79% | ||
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Opec Basket • 1 day | 87.35 | -2.29 | -2.55% |
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Peace Sour • 55 mins | 75.30 | -0.05 | -0.07% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 55 mins | 78.35 | -0.05 | -0.06% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 55 mins | 85.30 | -0.05 | -0.06% | ||
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Central Alberta • 55 mins | 75.70 | -0.05 | -0.07% |
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Eagle Ford • 1 day | 79.21 | +0.04 | +0.05% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 1 day | 79.25 | +0.00 | +0.00% | ||
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Kansas Common • 2 days | 73.00 | -2.50 | -3.31% | ||
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Buena Vista • 2 days | 86.86 | -2.40 | -2.69% |
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Alternative Energy / Wind Power
The Windscraper - New Building Design Harvests the Environment for Energy
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The Changing face of Wind Power - New Turbine Designs
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Wind Power to be Competitive with Natural Gas by 2016
Falling costs mean that the average onshore wind farm will be competitive with natural gas-fired power generation by 2016, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). The London-based analysis company…
Texas Wind Power - Good Money After Bad?
The cost of building transmission for expensive wind power in Texas is coming in nearly 40 percent higher than initially promised. Instead of $4.9 billion, as estimated in 2008, the…
Sunny Egypt Interested in... Wind Power
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Soaring U.S. Wind Power Sector Growing Nervous Over Tax Incentives
The US wind power sector is soaring thanks in large part to a tax policy that makes it attractive to investors, but the uncertainty surrounding those very incentives is casting…
Turkey: Betting on Wind Power, One Village at a Time
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Wind Energy Lies and Turbine Noise Pollution
“When will the environmentalist community writ large wake up to the unintended micro consequences of their increasingly futile macro policy of forced energy transformation?” Herkimer County, New York, is the…
Race to Build America’s First Offshore Windfarms
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High Altitude Wind Energy: Why the Future of Wind Farms May be in the Sky
Using kites and balloons to tap the strong, consistent winds more than two kilometres in the air could avoid many of the pitfalls of more down-to-earth wind farms, according to…
Brazil's Wind Energy Boom: Wind Power Cheaper than Natural Gas
Generating power from the wind in Brazil is less costly than using natural gas or hydro, according to the results of a government tender to supply electricity this week. National…
Wind Energy Sector to Collapse in 2013?
The US wind energy sector is continuing to recover from the credit crunch with turbine installations on the rise in 2011, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), but…
The Natural Limits of Wind Energy
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Overestimating Wind Power Generation: From the UK to New York State
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Responding to the Latest Spin From the Wind Energy Association
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Making Wind Energy More Efficient
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Why Big Wind Power Won’t Work
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