Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd Mele Kele Kyari, says there is no single refinery working in the country at the moment. Kyari disclosed this when he appeared before the House of Representatives Joint Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) on Tuesday in Abuja. He told the
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Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said the failure of the 36 States of the federation to invest in power generation, transmission and distribution as enshrined in the constitution has in no small measure contributed to the sector’s woes. Fashola stated this at the BRF GABFEST 6 to
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Thanks to the renewables boom, the limiting factor of the energy revolution is not power supply as much as power storage these days. Cleaner, greener batteries are needed to charge cars, ebikes and devices for longer. In the future, a large portion of our energy will come from renewable sources such
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A new GPU-based machine learning algorithm developed by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) can help scientists better understand and predict connectivity between different regions of the brain. The algorithm, called Regularized, Accelerated, Linear Fascicle Evaluation, or ReAl-LiFE, can rapidly analyze the enormous amounts of data generated from diffusion
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There’s an abandoned coal power plant in upstate New York that most people regard as a useless relic. But MIT’s Paul Woskov sees things differently. Woskov, a research engineer in MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, notes the plant’s power turbine is still intact and the transmission lines still run to
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Silicon Valley giants including Apple, Google and Microsoft are making enormous profits amounting to more than $1,000 per second, new data reveals. Apple is one of the most profitable businesses, generating over $152 billion per day, which equates to $1,752 every single second. Fintech firm Tipalti created a landing page with a
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Siemens Mobility has won a contract to supply seven two-car hydrogen trains for a line in the Berlin-Brandenburg region of eastern Germany, replacing diesel units. This is the train-builder’s first order for a hydrogen fleet. The Mireo Plus H trains will be equipped with fuel-cell drive systems and lithium-ion batteries. Siemens
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With 5G being a priority for almost all telcos today, one of the biggest challenges they face is upgrading their systems in order to support the new requirements for 5G. This includes transforming their business operations to capture value from data and driving applications of 5G. Compared to businesses that can
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Fears have been raised about the future of artificial intelligence after a robot was found to have learned 'toxic stereotypes' from the internet. The machine showed significant gender and racial biases, including gravitating toward men over women and white people over people of colour during tests by scientists. It also jumped to conclusions
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Making the chemical industry sustainable means reducing not only its dependence on fossil raw materials but also its toxicity footprint. This is achievable if the industry reduces its product range, explains Martin Scheringer. Like many industries, the chemical industry needs to become more sustainable and, among other things, reduce
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