New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 4, 2010 - On a pivotal day for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, BP plugged its stricken well while officials announced Wednesday that most of the toxic crude has been cleaned up or dispersed through natural processes.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 04, 2010 - The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) Board of Water and Power Commissioners approved a long-term agreement to receive over 100 megawatts of new wind energy from Milford Wind Farm Phase II at its meeting on July 22, 2010.
Sydney (UPI) Aug 3, 2010 - Australia is posed to benefit from India's rising demand for coal imports, analysts say.
London (UPI) Aug 3, 2010 - British oil giant BP Tuesday said it would sell its Colombian business to raise cash for the Gulf of Mexico cleanup, as speculation was soaring across Europe what the company may divert next.
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 3, 2010 - BP began operations Tuesday to permanently plug the runaway well that has brought environmental and economic ruin to the Gulf of Mexico and spilled more oil into the sea than ever before.
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2010 - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has decided to enter another area in the battery world. It has been granted $1.6 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to develop a novel storage device for the electric grid.
New York NY (SPX) Aug 03, 2010 - Exousia Advanced Materials has announced that its biodiesel production facility located in South Carolina is currently completing the maintenance and re-tooling of the facility and will begin delivering biodiesel orders in August.
Beijing (AFP) Aug 3, 2010 - China's average energy consumption rose marginally in the six months to June, the first year-on-year increase since 2006, the government said Tuesday, despite pledges to improve efficiency.
Columbia MD (SPX) Aug 03, 2010 - Renewable fuels provider New Generation Biofuels Holdings has announced that it has filed for a patent application for their new pyrolysis oil based biofuels.
Munich, Germany (SPX) Aug 03, 2010 - Researchers around the world are working on the development of quantum computers that will be vastly superior to present-day computers. Here, the strong coupling of quantum bits with light quanta plays a pivotal role.
"Pump first, ask questions later" seems to be the message of over-eager ethanol advocates trying to pressure the U.S.
Urbana IL (SPX) Aug 03, 2010 - Sensors currently used to monitor the quality of diesel fuel and biodiesel blended fuels during engine operation are unable to adequately detect certain important fuel quality concerns.
Washington (AFP) Aug 3, 2010 - The biggest maritime oil spill was not enough to get US senators to agree on a scaled-back energy bill that would have tackled oil exploration and spill cleanup, a top lawmaker said Tuesday.
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Aug 02, 2010 - Researchers have discovered mechanisms critical to interactions between hot plasma and surfaces facing the plasma inside a thermonuclear fusion reactor, part of work aimed at developing coatings capable of withstanding the grueling conditions inside the reactors.
Baghdad (AFP) Aug 2, 2010 - Iraq has delayed until October a tender to develop three gas fields with estimated reserves that total about 11 trillion cubic feet (317 billion cubic metres), an oil ministry spokesman said Monday.
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 2, 2010 - BP said Monday it had delayed last-minute tests before its crucial well kill operation in the Gulf of Mexico due to a leak in the cap that is sealing the well.
