Oslo (AFP) Feb 28, 2014 - A bumper 2013 for Norway's sovereign wealth fund, which invests surplus oil revenue, has made every Norwegian a virtual millionaire in kroner.
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Feb 27, 2014 - The release of the draft position statement on wind farms and health from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) was an important step in reassuring communities living near wind fa
New York (AFP) Feb 27, 2014 - ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson has been a zealous advocate of the US shale boom and the controversial use of fracking, but not when it hits too close to home.
Washington (AFP) Feb 27, 2014 - US Secretary of State John Kerry Wednesday refused to give away any hint on whether he will approve a controversial Canada to US oil pipeline, saying he was intensely studying the plan.
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 27, 2014 - Renewable generation was up 30% for the week ending 2/20/14, according to recent estimates from Genscape's Generation Fuel Monitor Report. The total weekly generation of 11,982 GWhs was the second h
Washington (AFP) Feb 27, 2014 - US lawmakers broke through a logjam Thursday on a plan to bring electricity to 50 million Africans, in what Washington hopes will be its next major initiative for the continent.
Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 26, 2014 - University of Colorado Boulder scientists have found a creative way to radically improve thermoelectric materials, a finding that could one day lead to the development of improved solar panels, more
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Feb 26, 2014 - Porous films, which use similar properties to those seen in moth eyes in combination with nanoparticles, are being developed into robust, self-cleaning antireflective coatings for use on both plasti
Champaign IL (SPX) Feb 26, 2014 - A multi-institutional team reports that it can increase sugarcane's geographic range, boost its photosynthetic rate by 30 percent and turn it into an oil-producing crop for biodiesel production.
Paris (AFP) Feb 26, 2014 - Huge offshore wind farms can protect vulnerable coastal cities against devastating cyclones like Katrina and Sandy by tempering winds and ocean surges before they reach land, a study said Wednesday.
Berkeley CA (SPX) Feb 25, 2014 - A building owner changes the building's thermostat setting, allowing the indoor temperature to increase a couple of degrees for an entire afternoon. But how much energy was actually saved? To know t
Madison WI (SPX) Feb 24, 2014 - Generating electricity is not the only way to turn sunlight into energy we can use on demand. The sun can also drive reactions to create chemical fuels, such as hydrogen, that can in turn power cars
London UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2014 - The UK has a target of generating 15 per cent of the nation's energy from renewable resources such as wind farms by 2020. There are currently 4,246 individual wind turbines in the UK across 531 wind
Joensuu, Finland (SPX) Feb 24, 2014 - Nowadays, humanity faces many challenges; the most serious are poverty, the growing demand for resources and the deterioration of the environment. In order to satisfy the growing demand for wood, fo
Richland WA (SPX) Feb 23, 2014 - Scientists have created a microbattery that packs twice the energy compared to current microbatteries used to monitor the movements of salmon through rivers in the Pacific Northwest and around the w
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 23, 2014 - Electronics are getting smaller all the time, but there's a limit to how tiny they can get with today's materials. Researchers now say, however, that they have developed a way to shrink capacitors -
