Tokyo (AFP) Aug 6, 2009 - Japan plans to deploy unmanned probes to scour the sea-floor around the resource-poor island nation for mineral deposits, a government-backed scientific organisation said Thursday.
Eaton Rapids, Michigan (AFP) Aug 6, 2009 - Massive hunks of roughly-cast metal sit on the gleaming floor of a Michigan factory, waiting to be cut into the hubs of wind turbines destined for Iowa.
Ankara (AFP) Aug 6, 2009 - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin got the go-ahead from Turkey on Thursday to start surveying for a major gas pipeline and rejected a key European energy deal in a fresh challenge to the West.
Cape Town, South Africa (UPI) Aug 6, 2009 - The renewable energy market will see ten-fold growth in the next six years, an industry analyst predicted.
Beijing (AFP) Aug 5, 2009 - China refused to budge Wednesday on its demands that rich nations commit to large greenhouse gas cuts at upcoming climate change talks, while also declining to put a ceiling on its own emissions.
Berlin (UPI) Aug 5, 2009 - Germany will be able to create 2 million new green jobs until 2020 if it makes the right policy decisions, argue the country's environment minister and a group of experts.
Buenos Aires (UPI) Aug 4, 2009 - Argentine oil company Roch S.A. has offered more than $70 million to acquire southern Argentinean oil fields of U.S.-based Chevron Corp., industry sources said.
Paris (AFP) Aug 4, 2009 - The world's biggest atom-smasher, idle since breaking down only days after its launch last September, will likely restart in November, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said Tuesday.
Washington Aug 4, 2009 - A key climate change bill now being considered by US Congress would only modestly raise annual energy costs for families, far less than some industry estimates, a federal study said Tuesday.
Sofia (AFP) Aug 3, 2009 - Bulgaria's new Economy, Energy and Tourism Minister Traicho Traikov said on Monday that he will review the justification for big energy projects because of the economic crisis.
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 03, 2009 - With a sustained national commitment, the United States could obtain substantial energy-efficiency improvements, new sources of energy, and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions through the accelerated deployment of existing and emerging energy technologies, according to America's Energy Future: Technology And Transformation, the capstone report of the America's Energy Future project of the National Research Council, the operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering.
Atlanta GA (SPX) Aug 03, 2009 - Recent research into the properties of graphene nanoribbons provides two new reasons for using the material as interconnects in future computer chips. In widths as narrow as 16 nanometers, graphene has a current carrying capacity approximately a thousand times greater than copper - while providing improved thermal conductivity.
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Aug 03, 2009 - A team of physicists from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham have shown that electrons in narrow wires can divide into two new particles called spinons and a holons.
Amherst MA (SPX) Aug 03, 2009 - In their most recent experiments with Geobacter, the sediment-loving microbe whose hairlike filaments help it to produce electric current from mud and wastewater, Derek Lovley and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst supervised the evolution of a new strain that dramatically increases power output per cell and overall bulk power.
Berlin (UPI) Aug 3, 2009 - Analysts welcome Gaz de France Suez' interest in the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
Paris (UPI) Aug 3, 2009 - World oil supplies will pass their peak production sooner than expected, creating conditions for a global energy catastrophe, a French energy economist says.
