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OPEC VS THE UNITED STATES: WHO CONTROLS OIL PRICES? Up until the middle of the 20th century, the United States of America (U.S.A) was the largest producer of oil and controlled oil prices. In the years to follow, OPEC controlled the oil markets and prices for most of the latter part of the 20th century. However, with the discovery of shale oil in the U.S.A and advances in drilling techniques, America has re-emerged as a top producer of oil. In this article, we explore the historical battle between OPECand the United States of America to control oil prices and how world events have influenced that struggle.1 KEY TAKEAWAYS As of 2019, OPEC controlled roughly 75% of the world's total crude oil reserves and produced 42% of the world's total crude oil output. However, the U.S. was the world's largest oil-producing country in 2019 with more than 12 million barrels per day. Although OPEC still has the ability to drive prices, the U.S. has limited the cartel's pricing power b...

OIL STOCKS In the midst of the coronavirus market crash of 2020, oil stocks have cratered. Crude oil prices have fallen almost 70% since early January. At recent prices, both Brent and West Texas futures haven't been this low in 20 years. Simply put, the 2020 oil crash is unprecedented in both its swiftness and severity. But oil is still the black blood that flows in the veins of the global economy. Even as renewable energy supplants gasoline, diesel, and other refined hydrocarbons, they will remain important fuels to power transportation and generate electricity for many years to come. So, with oil prices at record lows, and essentially every stock in the oil and gas sector now trading at massive discounts to their prices only a couple of months ago, should investors be buying? This is the very moment when we should heed Warren Buffett's advice to be greedy when others are fearful, right? After all, some of the most diversified and best-known oil companies have seen their stoc...

HOW TO INVEST IN OIL MARKET High volatility makes predicting oil prices extremely difficult. Still, the US Energy Information Administration tries to do their best. According to the latest EIA’s short-term energy outlook, Brent oil prices will average $67 per barrel and WTI crude oil prices will average $62-$63 per barrel for the rest of 2019 and 2020. If forecasts are to be believed, global demand will boost oil prices to $92 by 2030, to $105 by 2040, and to $107 per barrel by 2050. All signs suggest that oil won’t lose ground and will draw investors’ attention over and over again. How to invest in oil with little money and without buying oil at all Serving as the no. 1 most-traded commodity worldwide, oil remains one of the major economic drivers. If you’re thinking of oil investing, you’re definitely not alone. The good thing with oil is that you can invest in the oil industry in several different ways without actually taking delivery of it. So, what’s the best way to invest in oil?...

HISTORY OF ALBERT EINSTEIN written by: Jennifer Rosenberg Extracted from  http://www.thoughtco.com CHILDHOOD AND BACKGROUND Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879–April 18, 1955), a German-born theoretical physicist who lived during the 20th century, revolutionized scientific thought. Having developed the Theory of Relativity, Einstein opened the door for the development of atomic power and the creation of the atomic bomb. Einstein is best known for his 1905 general theory of relativity, E=mc2, which posits that energy (E) equals mass (m) times the speed of light (c) squared. But his influence went far beyond that theory. Einstein's theories also changed thinking about how the planets revolve around the sun. For his scientific contributions, Einstein also won the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics. Einstein also was forced to Flee Nazi Germany after the rise of Adolf Hitler. It's no exaggeration to say that his theories indirectly helped lead the Allies to victory over the Axis powers in Wor...

EINSTEIN'S THEORY OF RELATIVITY Extracted from www.thouhtco.com written by ... Andrewew Zimmerman Jones. Einstein's theory of relativity is a famous theory, but it's little understood. The theory of relativity refers to two different elements of the same theory: general relativity and special relativity. The theory of special relativity was introduced first and was later considered to be a special case of the more comprehensive theory of general relativity. General relativity is a theory of gravitation that Albert Einstein developed between 1907 and 1915, with contributions from many others after 1915. THEORY OF RELATIVITY CONCEPTS Einstein's theory of relativity includes the interworking of several different concepts, which include: Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity - localized behavior of objects in inertial frames of reference, generally only relevant at speeds very near the speed of light Lorentz Transformations - the transformation equations used to calcu...

CAN HUMANS HEAR SOUND IN SPACE? Extracted from www.thoughtco.com This Article is written By John P. Millis, Ph.D Is it possible to hear sounds in space? The short answer is "No." Yet, misconceptions about sound in space continue to exist, mostly due to the sound effects used in sci-fi movies and TV shows. How many times have we "heard" the starship Enterprise or the Millennium Falcon whoosh through space? It's so ingrained our ideas about space that people are often surprised to find out that it doesn't work that way. The laws of physics explain that it can't happen, but often enough producers don't really think about them. They're going for "effect."  We often "hear" ships in movies going into "warp" or FTL drive, when, if we were outside a ship in space, we wouldn't hear a thing. People INSIDE the ship might hear something, but that's not the same as hearing sounds in the vacuum of space. NASA Plus, it'...

WHAT IS BOOTLOADER AND HOW TO UNLOCK BOOTLOADER ON ANDROID PHONES bootloader is a code that is executed before any Operating System starts to run. The concept of bootloaders is universal to virtually all Operating systems that inculcates operating systems on your PC, laptop, smartphones, and other such devices. Bootloaders basically package the instructions to boot operating system kernel and most of them also have their own debugging or modification environment. As the bootloader kicks off before any piece of software on your device, it makes it extremely processor specific and every motherboard has it’s own bootloader. This is one reason that all Android phones have different Custom ROMS developed due to high variance of processing hardware present on the device. The iDevices running iOS somewhat share the same hardware specs and hence you don’t see much variance in their bootloaders. ANDROID BOOTLOADERS Every Android phone has a bootloader that instructs the operating system kernel ...

WHAT IS COMMUNICATION? Communication is the process of sending and receiving messagesthrough verbal or nonverbal means, including speech, or oral communication; writing and graphical representations (such as infographics, maps, and charts); and signs, signals, and behavior. More simply, communication is said to be "the creation and exchange of meaning." Media critic and theorist James Carey defined communication as "a symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired and transformed" in his 1992 book "Communication as Culture," positing that we define our reality via sharing our experience with others. All creatures on earth have developed means in which to convey their emotions and thoughts to one another. However, it's the ability of humans to use words and language to transfer specific meanings that sets them apart from the animal kingdom. COMPONENTS OF COMMUNICATION To break it down, in any communication there is a sender and a rec...

HOW TO UPDATE YOUR BIOS SETTINGS Occasionally, a computer will need to have its BIOS updated. This is especially true of older machines. As new devices and standards arise, the BIOS needs to change in order to understand the new hardware. Since the BIOS is stored in some form of ROM, changing it is a bit harder than upgrading most other types of software. To change the BIOS itself, you'll probably need a special program from the computer or BIOS manufacturer. Look at the BIOS revision and date information displayed on system startup or check with your computer manufacturer to find out what type of BIOS you have. Then go to the BIOS manufacturer's Web site to see if an upgrade is available. Download the upgrade and the utility program needed to install it. Sometimes the utility and update are combined in a single file to download. Copy the program, along with the BIOS update, onto a floppy disk. Restart your computer with the floppy disk in the drive, and the program erases the ...

FUNCTION OR WORK OF THE BIOS BIOS uses Flash memory, a type of ROM. The BIOS software has a number of different roles, but its most important role is to load the operating system. When you turn on your computer and the microprocessor tries to execute its first instruction, it has to get that instruction from somewhere. It cannot get it from the operating system because the operating system is located on a hard disk, and the microprocessor cannot get to it without some instructions that tell it how. The BIOS provides those instructions. Some of the other common tasks that the BIOS performs include: 1.A power-on self-test (POST) for all of the different hardware components in the system to make sure everything is working Properly.  2.Activating other BIOS chips on different cards installed in the computer - For example, SCSI and graphics cards often have their own BIOS chips. 3.Providing a set of low-level routines that the operating system uses to interface to different hardware dev...

OIL PRICES REDUCES BELOW ZERO NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices plunged below zero on Monday as demand for energy collapses amid the coronavirus pandemic and traders don’t want to get stuck owning crude with nowhere to store it. Stocks were also slipping on Wall Street in afternoon trading, with the S&P 500 down 0.9%, but the market’s most dramatic action was by far in oil, where benchmark U.S. crude for May delivery plummeted to negative $3.70 per barrel, as of 2:15 pm. Eastern time. Much of the drop into negative territory was chalked up to technical reasons — the May delivery contract is close to expiring so it was seeing less trading volume, which can exacerbate swings. But prices for deliveries even further into the future, which were seeing larger trading volumes, also plunged. Demand for oil has collapsed so much due to the coronavirus pandemic that facilities for storing crude are nearly full. Tanks could hit their limits within three weeks, according to Chris Midgley, head of ana...

WHAT IS AN ELECTROVALENT BOND MEANING: An Electrovalent bond is a type of bond that is characterized by the transfer of electrons from metallic atoms to non metallic atom during a chemical reaction. it uses a donor and acceptor principle.  The metallic atom after donating their valence electrons, they become positively charged while the non metallic atoms become negatively charged after receiving extra electron com during their combination. Both ions now possesses a stable outer  duplet or octect structure of noble gases and are held together by strong electrostatic force of attraction which make up the ionic or electrovalent bond. The positive charged ions do not pair up to form molecules because they exact their force of attraction equally in  all direction. Example For a neutral sodium atom to form (Na+) to form form a uni positive sodium atom, then each of the sodium atom must give out or loose, or donate one of it electron. Conversely for a neutral chlorine atom to a...

WHAT IS ENERGY MEANING: Energy can be defined as the rate at which work is done or perform. can further be described as the measure of the time limit of a body to perform a particular task at a particular period of time. THE LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY This law states that in an isolated or close system,energy can never be destroyed or produced in any form or behavior, but rather it is transformed or converted from one form to another without any loss. 10 TYPES OF ENERGY AND EXAMPLES Energy is defined as the ability to do work. Energy comes in various forms. Here are 10 common types of energy and examples of them. MECHANICAL ENERGY Mechanical energy is energy that results from movement or the location of an object. Mechanical energy is the sum of kinetic energyand potential energy. Examples: An object possessing mechanical energy has both kinetic and potential energy, although the energy of one of the forms may be equal to zero. A moving car has kinetic energy. If you move the car up...

WHAT IS THE MEANNING OF PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT in electrons from matter and light The photoelectric effect occurs when matter emits electrons upon exposure to electromagnetic radiation, such as photons of light. Here's a closer look at what the photoelectric effect is and how it works. OVERVIEW OF THE PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT The photoelectric effect is studied in part because it can be an introduction to wave-particle duality and quantum mechanics. When a surface is exposed to sufficiently energetic electromagnetic energy, light will be absorbed and electrons will be emitted. The threshold frequency is different for different materials. It is visible light for alkali metals, near-ultraviolet light for other metals, and extreme-ultraviolet radiation for nonmetals. The photoelectric effect occurs with photons having energies from a few electronvolts to over 1 MeV. At the high photon energies comparable to the electron rest energy of 511 keV, Compton scattering may occur pair production ma...