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blogs.wsj.com - 11/20/2009
Environmental Capital
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Environmental Capital provides daily news and analysis of the shifting energy and environmental landscape. The Wall Street Journal's Keith Johnson is the lead writer. Environmental Capital is led by Journal energy reporter Russell Gold, and includes contributions from other writers at the ...

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Peak Energy:  Peak Oil Files: Why Is Saudi Aramco Building Supercomputers?

The Oil Drum:  Drumbeat: November 20, 2009

Climate Progress:  Energy and Global Warming News for November 20: Climate negotiating positions of top emitters

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Peak Oil Files: Why Is Saudi Aramco Building Supercomputers?
Peak Energy — The WSJ's Environmental capital blog has an interesting post on Saudi Arabia's interest in supercomputers - Peak Oil Files: Why Is Saudi Aramco Building Supercomputers?. ...

Drumbeat: November 20, 2009
The Oil Drum — Peak Oil Files: Why Is Saudi Aramco Building Supercomputers? The biannual list of the world’s 500 fastest computers was released on Tuesday and Aramco had two new entries at No. 119 and No. 134. Both are Dell clusters, running Intel processors and both are very, very fast. The oil industry uses Concorde-jet speed computing to aid it understanding underground reservoirs and to look for new sources of oil and gas. Aramco used another computer cluster to build a “full field model” of the Safaniya oilfield in 2008. Clearly, Aramco is taking a sophisticated ...

Energy and Global Warming News for November 20: Climate negotiating positions of top emitters
Climate Progress — ... unveiling in Berlin. “This would increase the costs of every kilowatt hour by 0.15 cents over 40 years which means for a European household less than five euros a year or 40 cents a month,” it said. Apart from the cost of preparing grids for new tasks to better manage erratic supplies, there is also concern that over reliance on wind or solar could leave consumers short of power when the wind does not blow or the sun does not shine. Peak Oil Files: Why Is Saudi Aramco Building Supercomputers? Saudi Aramco pumps ...

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