Washington DC (SPX) Nov 28, 2013 - The ever-increasing market for portable electronic devices such as laptops, cell phones and MP3 players has resulted in an equally heavy demand for secondary batteries - more commonly known as rech
Baghdad (AFP) Nov 28, 2013 - American energy giant Exxon Mobil on Thursday sold part of its controversial stake in a massive Iraqi oilfield to PetroChina and Indonesia's Pertamina amid a long-running row with Baghdad.
Fort Collins CO (SPX) Nov 28, 2013 - Tim Bauer, Nathan Lorenz and Bryan Willson, founders of Envirofit International have been named this year's Energy and Environment Innovators by The Economist magazine, based in London. The 10
Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 28, 2013 - Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated in the laboratory a lithium-sulfur (Li/S) battery that has more than twice the s
Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Nov 28, 2013 - An international team of researchers has synthesized a new material that stores an unusually large amount of hydrogen. Performing high-pressure X-ray studies at DESY's PETRA III and other light sour
Clemson NC (SPX) Nov 28, 2013 - A team of Clemson University physicists consisting of nanomaterial scientists Apparao Rao and Ramakrishna Podila and thermoelectricians Terry Tritt, Jian He and Pooja Puneet worked synergistically t
Stuttgart, Germany (SPX) Nov 28, 2013 - Classical and high-temperature superconductors differ hugely in the value of the critical temperatures at which they lose all electrical resistance. Scientists have now used powerful X-rays to estab
New York (AFP) Nov 27, 2013 - Chevron claimed Tuesday that corrupt Ecuadoran plaintiffs mounted an elaborate fraud to win a multi-billion-dollar case against it for polluting the Amazonian rainforest, in arguments before a US court.
Ankara (AFP) Nov 27, 2013 - Oil exports from autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan to Turkey could start next month, the region's prime minister said as he held talks in Ankara Wednesday on planned energy tie-ups that are likely to anger Baghdad.
Warsaw (AFP) Nov 27, 2013 - Poland will begin commercial production of shale gas next year, the Deputy Environment Minister said Wednesday, becoming the first European country to use the controversial technique known as fracking.
Beijing (AFP) Nov 27, 2013 - Chinese oil giant Sinopec has suspended two executives following a pipeline explosion in the coastal city of Qingdao which left more than 50 people dead, state media said Wednesday.
London, UK (SPX) Nov 27, 2013 - With growing incentives announced by various governments and larger end-user awareness, the small-wind power market is expected to increase massively, from $609m in 2012 to $3 billion by 2020, at a
Buenos Aires (UPI) Nov 26, 2013 - Argentina and major Spanish oil producer Repsol are nearer a compromise over last year's government unsettling seizure of Repsol unit YPF.
London (AFP) Nov 26, 2013 - Iran's deal with Western powers to curb parts of its nuclear programme is likely to lead to a sizable increase of shipments of oil from the Islamic Republic to Asia, analysts said.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 26, 2013 - Charles Elachi, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., met with top executives of the Norwegian-based oil and gas company, Statoil, on Friday, Nov. 22, in a ceremonial sig
Amherst MA (SPX) Nov 26, 2013 - For 40 years, scientists thought they understood how certain bacteria work together to anaerobically digest biomass to produce methane gas, important in bioenergy and the major source of greenhouse
