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Worcester Fuel Company To Launch Green Energy Division
Worcester MA (SPX) Aug 12, 2008 -
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ACEC Opposes Lawmakers’ Piecemeal Approach For New Energy Strategy
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 11, 2008 - ACEC President David A. Raymond is urging the Senate to adopt a comprehensive approach to addressing rising energy prices that includes all options-expanded production of U.S. oil and gas and nuclear, along with wind and solar, as well as other renewable sources.
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A Source Of Oil In Lake Baikal
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 11, 2008 - The deepwater exploration of Lake Baikal by two MIR mini-submarines attracted global attention and has met with significant success.
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Atlantic Energy Begins Energy Efficiency Project For NJ School District
Saratoga Springs NY (SPX) Aug 11, 2008 - Atlantic Energy Solutions has just initiated a turn-key energy efficiency and conservation project for its first Southern New Jersey Regional School District. What is going to occur is a significant annual energy savings in cost and wattage usage for the district with a payback of 1.9 years.
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Dell Meets Carbon Neutral Goal Ahead Of Schedule
Round Rock TX (SPX) Aug 11, 2008 - Dell has met its carbon neutral goal ahead of schedule, achieving a major milestone in its commitment to be the 'greenest' technology company on the planet and fulfilling a pledge to operate efficiently, maximize investment in green power and responsibly offset remaining impacts.
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Duke Energy Carolinas Signs Deal To Turn Landfill Gas Into Energy
Charlotte NC (SPX) Aug 11, 2008 - Beginning in 2009, gas produced from a landfill in Durham, N.C., will be turned into power to serve customers of Duke Energy Carolinas.
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Walker’s World: $200 oil is coming
Washington (UPI) Aug 11, 2008 - Oil prices may be dropping like a stone, but it won't last, according to one of the West's top experts on the industry, who is forecasting an oil supply crunch in or around the year 2013 when the price could soar as high as $200 a barrel.
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B&W Volund To Supply Biomass Gasification Plants In Italy
Barberton OH (SPX) Aug 10, 2008 -
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Rentech Produces Ultra Clean Synthetic Fuels At Colorado Facility
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 10, 2008 - Rentech's PDU is the only synthetic fuels facility in the United States today producing transportation fuels. The facility is designed to produce approximately 420 gallons per day of synthetic jet and diesel fuels and demonstrates the successful design, construction and operation of a fully-integrated synthetic fuels facility utilizing the Rentech Process.
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British police arrest 50 at power station demo
London (AFP) Aug 9, 2008 - British police on Saturday arrested 50 environmental campaigners as they tried to break into a power plant in protest at plans to build a new generation of coal-fired electricity plants.
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Iran in new oil money move to dodge sanctions: report
Tehran (AFP) Aug 9, 2008 - Iran's government has ordered the state oil company to deposit oil revenues only in selected banks in a bid to dodge toughening sanctions over its nuclear drive, local media reported on Saturday.
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Russia bombing raid near oil pipeline: Georgian PM
Tbilisi (AFP) Aug 9, 2008 - Russian warplanes on Saturday staged a raid near a major international oil pipeline that runs through Georgia but did not damage it, Georgia's prime minister said.
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BlueFire Ethanol Receives First Installment Of DOE Grant Funds
Irvine CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2008 - BlueFire Ethanol Fuels has received the first installment of funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the development of the BlueFire Mecca, LLC plant in Southern California.
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CERN Announces Start-Up Date For LHC
Genève, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 08, 2008 - CERN1 has announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. This news comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN's new particle accelerator reaches a successful conclusion. Television coverage of the start-up will be made available through Eurovision.
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Compressed Light Could Open Doors For Optical Communications
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2008 - Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have devised a way to squeeze light into tighter spaces than ever thought possible, potentially opening doors to new technology in the fields of optical communications, miniature lasers and optical computers.
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Improved Reaction Data Heat Up The Biofuels Harvest
Wahsington DC (SPX) Aug 08, 2008 - High food prices, concern over dwindling supplies of fossil fuels and the desire for clean, renewable energy have led many to seek ways to make ethanol out of cellulosic sources such as wood, hay and switchgrass. But today's processes are notoriously inefficient.