Fort Collins CO (SPX) Jan 28, 2014 - Colorado State University researchers are teaming with a Boulder company to develop a commercial refrigeration system that could save supermarkets up to 65 percent on their low temperature cooling -
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jan 28, 2014 - King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy, K.A.CARE, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, based in Freiburg, Germany,have jointly announ
Edinburgh UK (SPX) Jan 28, 2014 - Renewable tidal energy sufficient to power about half of Scotland could be harnessed from a single stretch of water off the north coast of the country, engineers say. Researchers have completed the
San Ramon CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2014 - An energy-efficient hot water system proved its value in a commercial restaurant application during a special project overseen by the Food Service Technology Center and Fast Water Heater Company. Th
Stanford CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2014 - University researchers from two continents have engineered an efficient and environmentally friendly catalyst for the production of molecular hydrogen (H2), a compound used extensively in modern ind
Raleigh NC (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - Researchers at North Carolina State University have shown that a one-atom thick film of molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) may work as an effective catalyst for creating hydrogen. The work opens a new door f
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - A Virginia Tech research team has developed a battery that runs on sugar and has an unmatched energy density, a development that could replace conventional batteries with ones that are cheaper, refi
Vaexjoe, Sweden (AFP) Jan 24, 2014 - Pine cones, moss and rotten food are fuelling a Swedish city's quest to be sustainable, but people's attachment to their cars may put the brakes on its carbon-neutral ambition.
Nairobi (AFP) Jan 24, 2014 - South Sudan's government and rebels have signed a ceasefire, but analysts warn that bringing battling gunmen on the ground under control and making the truce stick is far from guaranteed.
Austin TX (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering have developed a new source of renewable energy, a biofuel, from genetically engineered yeast cells and ordinary tab
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - Looking strictly at the economic costs and benefits of three different roof types-black, white and green (or vegetated)-Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers have found
Abu Dhabi UAE (SPX) Jan 23, 2014 - Boeing and research partners in the United Arab Emirates have made breakthroughs in sustainable aviation biofuel development, finding that desert plants fed by seawater will produce biofuel more eff
Moscow (AFP) Jan 23, 2014 - Russia's natural gas giant Gazprom reported on Thursday a 10.5-percent plunge in third-quarter profits but gains over the first nine months of 2013 thanks booming European sales.
Brussels (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - The European Commission issued Wednesday recommendations to ensure that clear environmental safeguards are in place when the controversial technique of fracking is used to tap shale gas reserves.
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - The capacitors of electronic circuits function something like batteries - storing electrical charge that can be quickly dumped to power devices like camera flashes. So-called supercapacitors take
Brussels (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - The EU should cut greenhouse gas emissions, blamed for global warming, by 40 percent by 2030, the European Commission said Wednesday, disappointing environmentalists but getting a cautious welcome from industry groups.
