1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (422+ words) Boring at CPC Corp, Taiwan’s (CPC, 台灣中油) second deep-geothermal exploration well in Yilan County has reached 3,361m and recorded temperatures of 200°C, raising hopes that the site in Dongshan Township (冬山) could host Taiwan’s first deep-geothermal power plant. The company plans…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (682+ words) Taipei Times - All Front Page Taiwan News Business Editorial & Opinion Sports World News Features Bilingual Pages Taiwan’s geothermal problem is above ground Japan built the institutions Taiwan lacks for managing long-cycle energy risk, yet still failed to unlock its geothermal…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago   (470+ words) France on Tuesday announced a “first of its kind” plan to phase out coal by 2030, oil by 2045 and gas by 2050 during a global conference aimed at breaking reliance on fossil fuels. The “road map” was published as dozens of nations…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (472+ words) Economic security is the ability to counter foreign coercion via economic means, an academic said yesterday, calling for cooperation among like-minded countries within the Asian region to achieve a geo-economic power balance. The “Asia Visions and Voices: Geopolitical Implications of…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (595+ words) Nations sealed a modest agreement at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) in the Brazilian Amazon on Saturday as many countries swallowed weaker terms on a fossil fuel phase-out to preserve unity. Nearly 200 countries approved the deal by consensus after two…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (523+ words) Negotiators were divided yesterday on the last day of fire-delayed UN climate talks, as Europe rejected UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) host Brazil’s latest draft agreement which lacks a road map to phase out fossil fuels. At stake is nothing less…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (215+ words) Examining the relationship between permeability and depth of slate might provide an easier means to evaluate the feasibility of geothermal projects before a detailed site investigation, Chinese-language media reported on Monday, citing a National Central University researcher. “While the fluid…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago   (195+ words) The Central Weather Administration (CWA) yesterday issued a geomagnetic storm alert, forecasting a space weather disturbance to begin at about 5am today and continue for about 33 hours. A geomagnetic storm is a temporary disturbance in Earth’s magnetic field caused when bursts…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago   (577+ words) Taiwan could deal with China’s tightened export controls on rare earth metals by turning to “urban mining,” a researcher said yesterday. Rare earth metals, which are used in semiconductors and other electronic components, could be recovered from industrial or electronic…...