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MeeFog Provides More Megawatts for Sahara Power Station
2014-10-08 16:08:00| Power Technology
MeeFog Technology boosts gas turbine output by cooling the inlet air, and uses half the water of a water injection system.
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Reggane North Development Project, Sahara Desert
2014-08-01 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Reggane North or Reggane Nord Development Project involves the development of six gas fields: Reggane, Azrafil Southeast, Kahlouche, South Kahlouche, Tiouliline and Sali located in blocks 351c and 352c of the Reganne basin in the Algerian Sahara des
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Sahara discovers oil in Nigerian onshore wells
2014-07-16 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Sahara Group has discovered commercial hydrocarbons in three onshore oil wells drilled at Oil Prospecting Licence (OPL) 274 in the Edo State block in Nigeria.
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Sahara Desert Dust Takes Transatlantic Trip
2014-07-10 10:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: If youre sneezing right now, the cause may be on the other side of the planet. In late June, winds began blowing what NASA describes as a river of dust from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean to North and South America. Because of thermal expansion of the atmosphere around the equator, sand and dirt grains are suspended thousands of feet in the air, as a wind carries them westward. Though Florida usually gets the heaviest dose of African dust, this year the dust seems to be spreading over...
How will climate change affect the Sahara?
2014-05-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: At the end of the last ice age, about 11,000 years ago, northern Africa became a grassland, home to fish, elephants and thousands of people. Then, 5,000 years ago, scientists say, it abruptly turned into an enormous wasteland--the vast desert that we now call the Sahara. The shift from savanna to sand was the result of natural climate change, triggered by a cyclical alteration in the sun's orbit. The decline in rainfall pushed residents south and east and perhaps contributed to the rise of the Egyptian...
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