Orlando FL (SPX) Feb 14, 2008 - At the 2008 International Builders' Show (IBS) Hydromatic Technologies Corporation will launch a new technology for clothes dryers that will reduce the appliance's energy consumption up to 50 percent and cuts clothes-drying time by up to 41 percent.
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 14, 2008 - Japan, the European Union and the United States would each need to cut greenhouse gasses by more than 80 percent for the world to meet a goal of halving emissions by 2050, Japanese scientists said Thursday.
Houston (UPI) Feb 13, 2008 - Climate change was on the agenda at an influential oil industry meeting in Houston with repeated calls for a nationwide regime.
Houston (UPI) Feb 13, 2008 - Energy policy is not only a county's priority to provide fuel and power to its citizens, it's also a vital, fluid component in foreign policy for the United States and its major partners and enemies.
Moscow (UPI) Feb 13, 2008 - Russia's gas and oil, its pipelines and investments in Europe and Asia have become, in the eyes of U.S. officials, threats to the national security of the United States.
Boston, Massachusetts (AFP) Feb 13, 2008 - Burning public health issues, cloned animals and the dangers of climate change will top the agenda at a conference drawing some 10,000 eminent scientists from around the world.
Bishkek (AFP) Feb 13, 2008 - Kyrgyzstan said Wednesday it was cutting electricity supplies to Central Asian neighbour Tajikistan, which is in the grips of an energy crisis amid its coldest weather for 40 years.
Paris (AFP) Feb 13, 2008 - The world oil market could be set for a lengthy slowdown, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday, signalling a sharp shift in the climate that pushed the oil price to 100 dollars last month.
Miami (UPI) Feb 12, 2008 - Officials at Venezuela's state-owned oil and gas giant PDVSA appeared Tuesday to back away from threats to cut off oil supplies to the United States amid a multibillion-dollar legal fight with ExxonMobil.
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 12, 2008 - the February issue of Geotimes magazine examines the complicated issues surrounding Iraq's oil exploration and production. Iraq boasts the largest untapped oil reserves in the world. Unfortunately, the instability that comes with war, attacks on infrastructure and the outdated technology currently in use in Iraq has led to the lowest reserve-to-production ratio of all oil-producing countries.
Richland WA (SPX) Feb 12, 2008 - Like two ballroom dancers waltzing together, the two atoms of an oxygen molecule severed by a metal catalyst usually behave identically. But new research reveals that on a particular catalyst, split oxygen atoms act like a couple dancing the tango: one oxygen atom plants itself while the other shimmies away, probably with energy partially stolen from the stationary one.
St. Joseph MO (SPX) Feb 12, 2008 - LifeLine Foods will join forces with the IndyCar Series for the 2008 season as the official supplier of the 100 percent fuel-grade ethanol used in all IndyCar Series cars. The St. Joseph, Mo. facility was contracted by the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC) to supply approximately 120,000 gallons of the fuel to the IndyCar Series.
Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Feb 12, 2008 - Capitalizing on its large crude oil reserves, which is second only to Venezuela in South America, Brazil has increased its offshore oil extraction efforts. Well-developed infrastructure, an ongoing deregulation process, market reforms, and privatization process have created a positive environment for energy investment in Brazil.
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Feb 12, 2008 - Water and energy are inextricably linked. It takes large volumes of water to produce energy and significant amounts of low-cost energy to treat and distribute water. But the planning and management of these fundamental resources have historically been done independently of one another.
Dubai (AFP) Feb 12, 2008 - Thousands of Iranian firms are still doing business in the country's top trading partner, the United Arab Emirates, despite a US drive to choke Tehran's economy over its controversial nuclear programme.
Washington (UPI) Feb 11, 2008 - The U.S.- and EU-backed Nabucco pipeline, which has had little good news since it was first proposed, received a major boost Monday as the European Commission announced that it had approved Austrian rules for the construction of the pipeline.
