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The Energy Daily Editorial Team produces Energy Daily's coverage of the global energy industry. We report on oil and gas, power grids and utilities, energy markets and policy, and the renewables and storage reshaping how the world is powered. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Energy Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Energy Tech

Australia scraps coal-fired CCS plant

Canberra, Australia (UPI) Dec 20, 2010 - Australia has scrapped plans for a $4.3 billion Queensland coal-fired power station with carbon capture and storage capacity.

Dec 20, 2010

Energy Tech

Coal shortage causes power cuts in China: state media

Beijing (AFP) Dec 20, 2010 - A severe coal shortage has forced power cuts in many regions in China as demand surged due to a cold snap across large swathes of the nation over the past week, state media reported Monday.

Dec 20, 2010

Energy Tech

Computer Memory Takes A Spin

Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Dec 20, 2010 - University of Utah physicists stored information for 112 seconds in what may become the world's tiniest computer memory: magnetic spins in the centers or nuclei of atoms. Then the physicists

Dec 20, 2010

Energy Tech

Electric Current Moves Magnetic Vortices

Munich, Germany (SPX) Dec 20, 2010 - one of the requirements to keep trends in computer technology on track - to be ever faster, smaller, and more energy-efficient - is faster writing and processing of data. In the Dec. 17 issue of the

Dec 20, 2010

Energy News

Policies To Spur Renewable Energy Can Lower Energy Costs

Atlanta GA (SPX) Dec 20, 2010 - The South could pay less for its electricity in 20 years than is currently projected if strong public policies are enacted to spur renewable energy production and use, according to a report released

Dec 20, 2010

Energy Tech

Science’s Breakthrough of The Year: The First Quantum Machine

Washington DC (SPX) Dec 20, 2010 - Until this year, all human-made objects have moved according to the laws of classical mechanics. Back in March, however, a group of researchers designed a gadget that moves in ways that can only be

Dec 20, 2010

Energy News

Algeria pushes to revive energy industry

Algiers, Algeria (UPI) Dec 17, 2010 - Algeria's oil industry, battered by an investigation into high-profile corruption in the state-run Sonatrach oil company, is seeking long-delayed exploration deals and pressing ahead with the Medgaz pipeline linking the gas-rich North African country to Spain.

Dec 17, 2010

Energy Tech

EU denies funding for fusion reactor

Brussels (UPI) Dec 17, 2010 - A plan to save financing for a multinational nuclear fusion reactor project has been rejected at the last minute.

Dec 17, 2010

Wind Daily

Nordex USA Wins 41MW Order For Iowa Wind Farm

Chicago IL (SPX) Dec 17, 2010 - Nordex USA has announced an order with wind farm developer RPM Access for a 41 Megawatt wind farm in Delaware County Iowa, just weeks after finalizing a 75 Megawatt order with EverPower Wind Holding

Dec 17, 2010

Energy Tech

Oil Sands report gives mixed reviews

Edmonton, Alberta (UPI) Dec 17, 2010 - There is no credible evidence to support allegations that Canada's oil sands are the most environmentally destructive project on Earth, says a report from the Royal Society of Canada.

Dec 17, 2010

Energy Tech

Rothschild says Indonesia’s Bumi can shake up coal world

Jakarta (AFP) Dec 17, 2010 - The company formed by the union of PT Bumi Resources and PT Berau Coal Energy is looking to acquire coal mines around the world and become a global giant, investor Nathaniel Rothschild said Friday.

Dec 17, 2010

Energy Tech

Tiny Channels Carry Big Information

Berkeley CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2010 - They say it's the little things that count, and that certainly holds true for the channels in transmembrane proteins, which are small enough to allow ions or molecules of a certain size to pass thro

Dec 17, 2010

Wind Daily

Wind Turbines On Farmland May Benefit Crops

Ames IA (SPX) Dec 17, 2010 - Wind turbines in Midwestern farm fields may be doing more than churning out electricity. The giant turbine blades that generate renewable energy might also help corn and soybean crops stay cooler an

Dec 17, 2010

Bio Fuel

Champion Hydrogen-Producing Microbe

St. Louis MO (SPX) Dec 16, 2010 - Inside a small cabinet the size of a dorm refrigerator in one of Himadri B. Pakrasi's labs, a blue-green soup percolates in thick glass bottles under the cool light of red, blue and green LEDS.

Dec 16, 2010

Energy Tech

EU fusion funding proposal fails

Brussels (UPI) Dec 16, 2010 - The European Parliament has rejected a last-ditch plan to rescue financing for a nuclear fusion reactor project, officials say.

Dec 16, 2010

Bio Fuel

Green genes In Yeast May Boost Biofuel Production By Increasing Stress Tolerance

Bethesda MD (SPX) Dec 16, 2010 - Research published in the journal GENETICS identifies new genes that improve ethanol tolerance in yeast cells, with the goal of generating higher ethanol concentrations for biofuel production.

Dec 16, 2010