Breaking down the energy index, it was gasoline, which rose 9.1% according to the index, which caused the most damage.

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If we do that we can agree on producing our own energy, breaking down barriers to trade.

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The company says the brains of people with the disease tend to have trouble breaking down sugar into energy.

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The recruitment company's annual review of the oil and gas sector analysed the impact of the record breaking 27th licensing round which saw the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) award 167 new licences on more than 300 North Sea blocks in October 2012.

BBC: Oil and gas 'jobs boom' forecast for North Sea

The need to develop carbon-free energy sources is greater than ever, and Germany is leading the charge, breaking all previous solar installation records in 2012.

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Dr Kobayashi and Dr Maskawa, who were at Japan's High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation and Kyoto University respectively, described a type of symmetry breaking that predicted two new families of quarks, a sort of subatomic particle whose simplest members are the ingredients of the protons and neutrons that form atomic nuclei.

ECONOMIST: The 2008 Nobel science prizes

Extracting the bitumen from the clay and sand and upgrading it into crude oil--by breaking its big hydrocarbon molecules into smaller, less viscous ones--is an expensive, energy-intensive process that consumes 650 cubic feet of natural gas for every barrel.

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