Energy Tech
Western China the ‘Middle East’ for coal?
London (UPI) Mar 8, 2011 - Western China's vast coal reserves could make it the new Middle East, a top coal industry official said.
Energy Tech
Arab revolts jolt West into reassessing policies
Beirut (AFP) March 7, 2011 - The revolts shaking the Arab world are forcing Western powers to reassess their foreign policy in the region, long focused on self-interest rather than promoting democratic principles, analysts say.
Bio Fuel
Boeing Leaders To Address Bio-Fuels At Asian Aerospace 2011
Hong Kong (SPX) Mar 07, 2011 - Experts from Boeing will present key trends at Asian Aerospace 2011 and discuss their implications for commercial aviation. Asian Aerospace takes place March 8-10, at AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong.
Energy Tech
China announces green targets
Beijing (UPI) Mar 7, 2011 - China announced a series of green targets proposed in its latest five-year plan to be voted on this week.
Energy News
Iceland eyeing giant cable to sell power to Europe
Reykjavik (AFP) March 7, 2011 - Iceland is considering building the world's longest sub-sea electric cable to allow it to sell its geothermal and volcanic energy to Europe, the country's largest energy company said Monday.
Energy Tech
Japanese Scientists Use Alcoholic Drinks To Induce Superconductivity
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 07, 2011 - Japanese researchers have been immersing iron-based compounds in hot alcoholic beverages such as red wine, sake and shochu to induce superconductivity. Scientists from the National Institute f
Bio Fuel
New Study To Look At Economics, Groundwater Use Of Bioenergy Feedstocks
Amarillo TX (SPX) Mar 07, 2011 - Biofuel feedstock production in the Texas High Plains could significantly change the crop mix, which could affect regional income and groundwater consumption, according to Texas AgriLife Research an
Energy Tech
Spill no reason to halt deep sea drilling: BP chairman
Malmoe, Sweden (AFP) March 7, 2011 - Last year's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill sparked by an explosion on a BP-leased platform is no reason to stop deep sea drilling, the group's chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said Monday.
Energy Tech
Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycle Turbines Promise Giant Leap
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Mar 07, 2011 - Sandia National Laboratories researchers are moving into the demonstration phase of a novel gas turbine system for power generation, with the promise that thermal-to-electric conversion efficiency w
Energy Tech
Ex-aide: Bush was right to engage Kadhafi
Washington (AFP) March 6, 2011 - A top official in the Bush administration on Sunday defended US engagement in years past with Libya's Moamer Kadhafi, saying doing so got weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of a megalomaniac.
Energy Tech
Nigerian military says raze 500 illicit oil refineries
Yenagoa, Nigeria (AFP) March 6, 2011 - Nigeria's military said it destroyed 500 illicit oil refineries dotted along the creeks of the southern Niger Delta in a six-hour weekend raid.
Energy Tech
US ‘dragging their feet’ on Kadhafi: Libyan ex-minister
Washington (AFP) March 6, 2011 - The United States may have missed an opportunity to oust Moamer Kadhafi by dragging its feet on aiding rebels in the first weeks of Libya's uprising, a former minister said Sunday.
Energy Tech
Unrest speeds need to switch from oil: UK minister
London (AFP) March 6, 2011 - The unrest in the Arab world makes it all the more urgent to wean Britain off oil and onto greener sources of power, its energy minister said Sunday.
Energy Tech
China pledges ‘green’ push over next five years
Beijing (AFP) March 5, 2011 - Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday pledged that China, the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases, would work harder to save energy and clean up the air as it revamps the economy over the next five years.
Energy Tech
Japan warns China ship near disputed isles
Tokyo (AFP) March 5, 2011 - Japan went on alert Saturday as a Chinese surveillance vessel approached a disputed island chain at the centre of a bitter territorial row between the two rivals.
Energy Tech
Arab unrest and the ‘End of the Oil Age’
Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) Mar 4, 2011 - The shock waves from the political upheaval engulfing Arab oil producers are causing immense changes that could shrink the global oil economy, says U.S. energy expert Michael T. Klare.