Raleigh NC (SPX) Apr 08, 2011 - Researchers have long known that landfills produce methane, but had a hard time figuring out why - since landfills do not start out as a friendly environment for the organisms that produce methane.
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 08, 2011 - The residential housing sector needs smart energy systems. And yet the potential for developing these kinds of systems remains largely untapped. In the SmartEnergyLab - an innovative test laboratory
Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Apr 8, 2011 - Venezuela is battling inflation as it struggles to shed more than two years of recession that has blighted the oil-rich nation's economy, society and politics.
Rome (AFP) April 7, 2011 - A former top minister in Moamer Kadhafi's regime who has fled to Europe in a fishing trawler told AFP in an interview that he believes China and Russia have lost the race for oil in Libya.
Manhattan KS (SPX) Apr 07, 2011 - Companies looking to engineer an eco-friendly diesel fuel have more red lights in their path. According to Kansas State University researchers, making petroleum diesel completely green would not onl
Palo Alto, California (AFP) April 7, 2011 - Facebook on Thursday presented an Internet-obsessed world with a gift - greener, cheaper data centers to more efficiently power online services.
Washington (UPI) Apr 7, 2011 - New containment technology unveiled by U.S. oil industry executives has led to eight new permits to drill in the Gulf of Mexico, despite uncertainty over whether the new control systems are actually capable of cleaning up a disaster such as last year's BP oil spill.
Kampala, Uganda (UPI) Apr 7, 2011 - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is reported to be tightening his grip on the East African country's emerging oil sector in a region that seems set to become the new frontier for oil and gas exploration.
London (AFP) April 7, 2011 - Oil prices held close to recent 2008 highs on Thursday as traders shrugged off news of another earthquake in disaster-hit Japan.
Anaheim CA (SPX) Apr 06, 2011 - In a scientific advance literally plucked from the waste heap, scientists have described a key step toward using the billions of pounds of waste chicken feathers produced each year to make one of th
Beijing (AFP) April 6, 2011 - China raised wholesale petrol prices by 500 yuan ($76) per ton and diesel by 400 yuan a ton late Wednesday, the third rise since December in the world's second-largest fuel consuming nation.
Hannover, Germany (SPX) Apr 06, 2011 - In the future, the growing amounts of solar and wind energy will need to be stored for dark or low-wind periods. One solution is redox flow batteries that can supply current for up to 2000 household
Abu Dhabi (AFP) April 6, 2011 - The International Energy Agency is calling for 312 billion dollars in fuel subsidies to be scrapped in a bid to promote clean energy sources, according to a report presented in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.
New Haven CT (SPX) Apr 06, 2011 - Fuel cells have been touted as a cleaner solution to tomorrow's energy needs, with potential applications in everything from cars to computers. But one reason fuel cells aren't already more wi
Seoul (UPI) Apr 6, 2011 - South Korea will consider cutting oil taxes in an effort to stem inflation, the prime minister said Wednesday.
Southampton, UK (SPX) Apr 06, 2011 - Planting short rotation energy crops on England's unused agricultural land could produce enough biomass to meet renewable energy targets without disrupting the food industry or the environment, acco
