Ottawa (AFP) Oct 13, 2010 - Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a pitch on Wednesday for Canadian energy to fuel China's economic growth, in an apparent move to allay Chinese apprehensions about investing here.
Beijing (AFP) Oct 13, 2010 - China's wind power capacity will increase more than five-fold over the next decade from 2009, a report forecast Wednesday, as the country steps up its drive to develop clean energy.
Brussels (AFP) Oct 13, 2010 - A bid to freeze deepwater drilling in Europe in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico disaster collapsed Wednesday under pressure from the multi-billion North Sea oil industry.
Brussels Oct 13, 2010 - Europe looks set to agree Friday to slap a new pollution and noise tax on heavy goods vehicles despite vocal opposition from road haulage groups.
Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 13, 2010 - Measuring a fuel cell's overall performance is relatively easy, but measuring its components individually as they work together is a challenge. That's because one of the best experimental techniques for investigating the details of an electrochemical device while it's operating is x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Traditional XPS works only in a vacuum, while fuel cells need gases under pressure to function.
Jenbach, Austria (SPX) Oct 13, 2010 - Further expanding its diverse portfolio of power generation technologies, GE has announced the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Calnetix Power Solutions (CPS), a Florida-based company that develops innovative technology for small-scale, waste heat to power projects.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Oct 13, 2010 - GE has signed agreements worth approximately $700 million to supply power generation equipment and long-term services for a new gas-fired, independent power plant that will help Saudi Arabia, the Middle East's largest economy, meet a growing need for residential and industrial power.
Paris (AFP) Oct 13, 2010 - Surprisingly strong demand for oil in OECD advanced countries in the third quarter pushed the International Energy Agency to raise its forecasts for oil demand this year and next, on Wednesday.
Cleveland OH (SPX) Oct 13, 2010 - Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have taken the first step to building a computer capable of operating in the heat of a jet engine or the sunny side of the planet Mercury.
Champaign IL (SPX) Oct 13, 2010 - Wind power is likely to play a large role in the future of sustainable, clean energy, but wide-scale adoption has remained elusive. Now, researchers have found wind farms' effects on local temperatures and proposed strategies for mediating those effects, increasing the potential to expand wind farms to a utility-scale energy resource.
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Oct 13, 2010 - By installing wireless sensors and replacing faulty traps along the 12 miles of steam lines at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, officials expect to save as much as $675,000 per year.
Dallas TX (SPX) Oct 13, 2010 - New research produced by Southern Methodist University's Geothermal Laboratory, funded by a grant from Google.org, suggests that the temperature of the Earth beneath the state of West Virginia is significantly higher than previously estimated and capable of supporting commercial baseload geothermal energy production.
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 13, 2010 - Shell Offshore has submitted an Application for a Permit to Drill one exploration well in the Beaufort Sea in 2011. The formal submission to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) is specifically for the shallow waters of Camden Bay and continues the regulatory process toward an approved summer drilling season.
Washington (AFP) Oct 13, 2010 - The United States on Wednesday raised the allowable limit on ethanol content in gasoline for newer vehicles amid an outcry from critics over pollution and federal subsidies for corn ethanol.
Hanoi (AFP) Oct 12, 2010 - Territorial disputes in Asian waters pose a threat to regional stability, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned on Tuesday, defending America's naval presence in the Pacific, despite criticism from China.
Hanoi (AFP) Oct 12, 2010 - Beijing appears to be adopting a slightly more conciliatory tone over territorial disputes in the South China Sea, backing away from describing the area as part of its core interests, a US official said Tuesday.
