Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Mar 30, 2009 - Swedish bioenergy company SEKAB was presented the prestigious Sustainable Bioethanol Award for its development of verified sustainable ethanol and the technology for bioethanol based on cellulose at an event in Brussels including the world's foremost leaders in biofuels.
Washington (AFP) March 29, 2009 - The Pentagon may seem an unlikely promoter of alternative energy, but the biggest consumer of oil in the United States is looking at ways to become just that by partnering with private firms.
London (UPI) Mar 29, 2009 - British companies eager to drill for oil off the Falkland Islands have been hit hard by one of the companies' announcement that there was little crude to extract.
Athens, Ohio (UPI) Mar 29, 2009 - U.S. scientists say they have created the world's smallest superconductor -- a sheet of four pairs of molecules less than one nanometer wide.
New York (UPI) Mar 28, 2009 - Some U.S. energy experts say the push to lower the price of compact fluorescent light bulbs has led manufacturers to use cheap components.
Washington (UPI) Mar 27, 2009 - To most Westerners, the terms Kazakhstan and energy are synonymous with the country's dramatic rise as a petro-state since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Mar 27, 2009 - Lighting consumes one-fifth of the electricity generated in the United States. Solid-state lighting offers tremendous potential to improve the situation - once major research challenges are overcome.
Champaign IL (SPX) Mar 27, 2009 - Scientists at the University of Illinois have successfully demonstrated a microwave signal mixer made from a tunnel-junction transistor laser. Development of the device brings researchers a big step closer to higher speed electronics and higher performance electrical and optical integrated circuits.
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Mar 27, 2009 - In the future, natural gas derived from chunks of ice that workers collect from beneath the ocean floor and beneath the arctic permafrost may fuel cars, heat homes, and power factories.
Liverpool, UK (SPX) Mar 27, 2009 - Scientists at the University of Liverpool and Durham University have developed a new material to further understanding of how superconductors could be used to transmit electricity to built-up areas and reduce global energy losses.
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Mar 27, 2009 - Researchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the process once called cold fusion that may promise a new source of energy.
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 26, 2009 - Nigerian oil workers have called off a proposed strike following two days of talks between the government and union leaders, with both sides agreeing to create a joint panel to discuss the workers' complaints about violence in the petroleum-rich Niger Delta.
Providence RI (SPX) Mar 26, 2009 - Even small devices need power, and much of that juice comes from fuel cells. As these devices become even smaller, the rush is on to find more efficient ways to power them.
Washington (UPI) Mar 26, 2009 - China in 2009 for the first time led the world in clean energy investments, with Britain jumping up to the No. 3 spot.
Kampala, Uganda (UPI) Mar 26, 2009 - The scramble for East Africa's oil wealth is intensifying, with China's CNOOC outbidding India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp. for exploration rights in the Lake Albert Basin, the epicenter of the emerging new oil zone.
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 26, 2009 - According to the latest figures published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) in its Electric Power Monthly report non-hydro renewable sources of electricity enjoyed double-digit growth during the past year while coal, natural gas, and petroleum experienced notable declines and nuclear power remained stagnant.
