Paris (AFP) Jan 27, 2010 - Gene scientists have coaxed bacteria into eating agricultural waste and secreting diesel, offering a potentially cheaper, greener energy source than present-day biofuels, a study released Wednesday said.
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 27, 2010 - To its fans, jatropha is a miracle crop, an eco-friendly answer to India's growing energy needs, but some experts are starting to question whether the wonder-shrub is too good to be true.
Jakarta (AFP) Jan 27, 2010 - Indonesia is hoping to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign governments to fund green infrastructure projects, a finance ministry official said Wednesday.
Cambridge MA (SPX) Jan 27, 2010 - A new experiment that reproduces the magnetic fields of the Earth and other planets has yielded its first significant results. The findings confirm that its unique approach has some potential to be developed as a new way of creating a power-producing plant based on nuclear fusion - the process that generates the sun's prodigious output of energy.
Charlottesville VA (SPX) Jan 27, 2010 - With many companies investing heavily in algae-based biofuels, researchers from the University of Virginia's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering have found there are significant environmental hurdles to overcome before fuel production ramps up. They propose using wastewater as a solution to some of these challenges.
Washington (AFP) Jan 27, 2010 - US scientists have produced a laser shot with an unprecedented energy level that could be a key step towards nuclear fusion, the US National Nuclear Security Administration said Wednesday.
Sofia (AFP) Jan 26, 2010 - Bulgaria is undergoing a boom in the renewable energy sector that experts warn could see an influx of dodgy investment and actually end up doing more harm than good for the environment.
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 26, 2010 - Researchers at Purdue University have created a magnetic ferropaper that might be used to make low-cost micromotors for surgical instruments, tiny tweezers to study cells and miniature speakers. The material is made by impregnating ordinary paper - even newsprint - with a mixture of mineral oil and magnetic nanoparticles of iron oxide. The nanoparticle-laden paper can then be moved using a magnetic field.
New York (AFP) Jan 26, 2010 - Oil prices resumed their downward movement Tuesday as the market fretted about China's moves to tighten credit to cool economic growth that could weaken energy demand in the Asian giant.
In an important first for a promising new technology, scientists have used a quantum computer to calculate the precise energy of molecular hydrogen.
Mountain View CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2010 - Cobalt Technologies, the leader in commercializing biobutanol as a renewable fuel and chemical, has launched its first facility. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Silicon Valley cleantech leaders were on hand, demonstrating the importance of clean technology to the state's future economic vitality.
Kampala (AFP) Jan 26, 2010 - Uganda backed down from a pledge to bar Tullow Oil from acquiring more oil fields after the British firm presented the president with a choice of Chinese, French and US partners, officials said Tuesday.
Today's farmers are interested in wind energy because they're good managers; farming is all about maximizing profits and reducing risk.
Kinshasa (AFP) Jan 25, 2010 - A Chinese construction group is inflicting unacceptable working conditions on its Congolese labourers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a leading African human rights group charged Monday.
Caracas (AFP) Jan 25, 2010 - President Hugo Chavez on Monday said that Petrocaribe, Venezuela's cut-rate regional energy alliance, will forgive quake-stricken Haiti's debt.
Riyadh (AFP) Jan 24, 2010 - Global climate talks are biased against oil and pose a scary threat to Saudi Arabia's economy, a top official said on Sunday, defending Riyadh's stance on efforts to harness greenhouse gas emissions.
