Washington DC (SPX) Nov 15, 2013 - If you want to catch a firefly, any old glass jar will do. But when you're trying to bottle a star-the goal of fusion energy research-the bottle needs to be very special. A tokamak is one type of fus
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Nov 15, 2013 - Researchers studying more effective ways to convert woody plant matter into biofuels at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have identified fundamental forces that change plant
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 15, 2013 - A team of Chinese and American scientists has learned how to maintain high fusion performance under steady conditions by exploiting a characteristic of the plasma itself: the plasma self-generates m
Ankara (AFP) Nov 15, 2013 - Turkey said Friday it has proposed to mediate a long-running dispute between Baghdad and its autonomous Kurdistan region over dividing oil revenue.
Ankara (AFP) Nov 15, 2013 - Turkey rejects making further reductions in its oil imports from neighbouring Iran, which is under US sanctions over its nuclear programme, the energy ministry said on Friday.
Becancour, Canada (SPX) Nov 14, 2013 - Boeing and its partner RER Hydro of Montreal have entered into a multiyear agreement with the government of Quebec to provide 40 hydrokinetic turbines that will generate about 9 megawatts of clean,
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Nov 14, 2013 - Israel is on the cusp of becoming a natural gas exporter and key energy power in the Middle East, a move that could produce significant geopolitical changes in a region beset by turmoil.
Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2013 - Most buildings in the U.S. don't perform as energy-efficiently as they could simply because energy-using equipment in the building have never been set up to maximize energy performance. Thermostat s
Durham NC (SPX) Nov 14, 2013 - Using inexpensive materials configured and tuned to capture microwave signals, researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have designed a power-harvesting device with efficiency si
Benghazi, Libya (UPI) Nov 13, 2013 - Efforts to revive Libya's oil industry, crippled by militia fighting and post-revolution chaos, have suffered a major setback with a unilateral declaration of a self-rule by the oil-rich Cyrenaica region in the oil-rich east.
Shanghai (AFP) Nov 13, 2013 - PetroChina will pay $2.6 billion to acquire oil and gas interests in Peru, the company said Wednesday, in China's latest move to secure crucial energy supplies.
Basra, Iraq (AFP) Nov 12, 2013 - Residents angry over alleged religious insults beat up a Briton working at an energy company camp in southern Iraq, days after another firm suspended operations over secular unrest, officials said Tuesday.
Paris (AFP) Nov 12, 2013 - Global warming is set to heat up with temperatures rising to nearly twice targets set by the United Nations, the International Energy Agency warned on Tuesday.
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 11, 2013 - The degradation of drilling sumps associated with hydrocarbon extraction can negatively affect aquatic ecosystems, according to new research published November 6th in the open-access journal PLOS ON
Waltham MA (SPX) Nov 11, 2013 - American DG Energy is now operating a chiller to provide chilled water to DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Tarrytown, New York. The highly efficient chiller will provide supplemental cooling and increa
Calgary, Canad (SPX) Nov 11, 2013 - GE Canada announced a second phase of investment to develop technology that addresses environmental performance in the Alberta oil sands. GE will partner with Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance
