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Editorial Team

Energy Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Energy Daily Editorial Team produces Energy Daily's coverage of the global energy industry. We report on oil and gas, power grids and utilities, energy markets and policy, and the renewables and storage reshaping how the world is powered. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Energy Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

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Thermoelectric Materials Could Boost Energy Efficiency

Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Oct 10, 2008 - Researchers at the University of Arhus, Risø-DTU and the University of Copenhagen stand jointly behind new data, just published in Nature Materials, that describes properties of thermoelectric materials, which is of great importance for their practical application. In the long term the new knowledge can be used to develop motors that are more fuel-efficient and for more environmentally friendly cooling methods.

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Analysis: Caspian states ponder new group

Washington (UPI) Oct 8, 2008 - Since its founding in 1960, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, a cartel of 13 countries rich in hydrocarbons, has been a favorite whipping boy for Western governments and media seeking an organization to blame for high energy prices. For those with a sense of the ironies of history, OPEC was founded in Baghdad in response to a law promulgated by U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower that imposed quotas on Venezuelan and Persian Gulf oil imports in order to protect U.S. production while favoring the Canadian and Mexican oil industries.