Washington DC (UPI) Mar 25, 2014 - Jack Dalrymple, governor of the oil-rich state of North Dakota, said personal income growth has outpaced the national average by 5 percent.
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 25, 2014 - French energy company GDF Suez said Wednesday it inaugurated two power plants in Oman that have a combined capacity of 1,488 megawatts.
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 25, 2014 - Russian energy company Gazprom said it was looking at ways to expand the level of cooperation in the gas sector with its counterparts in Kuwait.
Exeter, UK (SPX) Mar 25, 2014 - Pioneering research could provide a significant boost in the vital quest to harness wave power as a viable renewable energy source for the future. Scientists from the University of Exeter have studi
Waterloo, Canada (SPX) Mar 25, 2014 - Physicists are one step closer to developing the world's first room-temperature superconductor thanks to a new theory from the University of Waterloo, Harvard and Perimeter Institute. The theo
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 25, 2014 - The United States is in a unique position to use its energy resources to increase its leverage on the international stage, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said.
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 24, 2014 - Researchers from ETH Zurich and Empa have succeeded for the first time to produce uniform antimony nanocrystals. Tested as components of laboratory batteries, these are able to store a large number
Pohang, South Korea (SPX) Mar 24, 2014 - Korean researchers successfully showcased the installation and operation of a box-shaped, high-pressure tank for the storage of liquefied natural gas in Pohang, Republic of Korea. The development wa
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) March 24, 2014 - Former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso on Sunday said Congress should investigate a growing scandal surrounding the controversial 2006 purchase by oil giant Petrobras of a Texas refinery.
Miami (AFP) March 24, 2014 - A busy shipping lane to the port of Houston, Texas was closed Monday as clean up crews struggled to remove oil that spilled in a weekend barge crash.
Durham NC (SPX) Mar 24, 2014 - Although markets for trading carbon emission credits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have stalled in United States federal policy-making, carbon markets are emerging at the state level within the
Stanford CA (SPX) Mar 24, 2014 - The worldwide demand for solar and wind power continues to skyrocket. Since 2009, global solar photovoltaic installations have increased about 40 percent a year on average, and the installed capacit
Washington (AFP) March 22, 2014 - On a cold March night 25 years ago, the supertanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef off the coast of Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the sea.
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Mar 21, 2014 - Algae are organisms useful in many ways in the transition towards a bio-economy. Even in a cool climate as in Finland, algae might be used to produce biochemicals and biofuels, besides use in captur
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 21, 2014 - The Clean Energy Council's inaugural Wind Industry Forum in Melbourne was a sell-out yesterday, with 200 industry professionals fronting up to get the latest insights from some of the leading expert
Salem VA (SPX) Mar 21, 2014 - BTM Corporation has reported substantial savings in coolant usage and waste removal costs after switching its aluminum and steel machining operations to run on QualiChem XTREME CUT 251C semi-synthet
