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Portal:Energy
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Welcome to Wikipedia's energy portal, your gateway to the subject of energy and its influence on the world around us.
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Energy is most often used in the context of energy resources, their development, consumption, depletion, and conservation. Since economic activities such as manufacturing and transportation can be energy intensive, energy efficiency, energy dependence, energy security and price are key concerns. Increased awareness of the effects of global warming has led to international debate and action for the reduction of greenhouse gases emissions.
In the context of natural science, energy can take several different forms: thermal, chemical, electrical, radiant, nuclear, etc. These are often grouped as being either kinetic energy or potential energy. Many of these forms can be readily transformed into another with the help of a device; from chemical energy to electrical energy using a battery, for example.
The concepts of energy and its transformations are useful in explaining natural processes. Meteorological phenomena like wind, rain, lightning and tornadoes all result from energy transformations brought about by solar energy on the planet. Life itself is critically dependent on biological energy transformations; organic chemical bonds are constantly broken and made to make the exchange and transformation of energy possible. Read more...
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Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani (born 1930) was Saudi Arabia's Minister of Oil (Petroleum) and Mineral Resources from 1962 until 1986, and a minister in OPEC for 25 years. He is best known for his role in the 1973 oil crisis, when OPEC quadrupled the price of crude oil.
Yamani gained a degree from Harvard Law School and a master's in Comparative Jurisprudence from New York University. After working in the Saudi Ministry of Finance, in 1958 be became a legal advisor to Faisal, then Crown Prince and Prime Minister, until Faisal's resignation in 1960. After Faisal's return to government, in 1962 Yamani replaced Abdallah Tariki as Oil Minister, playing an important role in the development of OPEC. During the 1967 Arab-Israeli War Yamani spoke against the use of an Arab oil embargo. The following year he lead the founding of the Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries.
When Arab-Israeli hostilities resumed with the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the pressure to join the other Arab states, who wished to use oil to change the apparent pro-Israeli policy of the United States government, was irresistible. Yamani's proposal of increasing monthly cuts in production was accepted and, together with a later embargo against the US and the Netherlands and a quadrupling of the oil price, severely affected the economies of all western nations. Despite this, by resisting more extreme proposals Yamani became increasingly seen as pro-American in the Arab world. Read more...
- August 6, 2008: An explosion on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline has halted the oil supplies through one of the biggest pipelines in the world.
- July 22, 2008: The world's second-largest utility company GDF Suez was formed by the merger of Gaz de France and Suez.
- July 11, 2008: The world largest LNG carrier Q-Max Mozah was named by and after Mozah Nasser al-Misnad, Sheikha of Qatar.
- July 1, 2008: Russian electricity holding company RAO UES completed the corporate reorganization and ceased to exist after its merger with and into UES FGC, the Federal Grid Company of Russia.
- June 20, 2008: The Chinese government announced an increase in petrol prices of more than 16%, reducing the subsidies available under its policy in reaction to globally rising oil prices.
- June 15, 2008: European Wind Day 2008 organised by EWEA, with over 100 wind farms across Europe open to the public.
- May 28, 2008: Indonesia announced decision to quit OPEC.
- May 27, 2008: An unplanned shutdown at Sizewell B nuclear power station causes power outages in London.
- "Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this Nation. This difficult effort will be the 'moral equivalent of war', except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy." – Jimmy Carter, 1977
- "For generations, we have assumed that the efforts of mankind would leave the fundamental equilibrium of the world's systems and atmosphere stable. But it is possible that with all these enormous changes (population, agricultural, use of fossil fuels) concentrated into such a short period of time, we have unwittingly begun a massive experiment with the system of this planet itself." – Margaret Thatcher, 1998
- "A great nation like the United States has a duty not to obstruct the fight against global warming but should, on the contrary, lead the combat, because what is at stake is the fate of all humanity." – Nicolas Sarkozy, 2007
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