Ouagadougou (AFP) Oct 15, 2007 - Brazil's President Luiz Ignacio Lula Da Silva called Monday on Africa to join a biofuels revolution to democratize access to energy across the continent.
Beijing (AFP) Oct 15, 2007 - President Hu Jintao said Monday that China's blistering economic growth was taking too high a toll on the nation's environment and society, and promised steps to limit the impacts.
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2007 - Using a device that can turn a tiny piece of laboratory space into an ion cloud as hot as those found in a nuclear fusion reactor, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are helping to develop one of the most exotic yardsticks on earth, an instrument to monitor conditions in the plasma of an experimental fusion reactor. Their measurement tool also is used in incandescent light bulbs Cits the element tungsten.
Champaign IL (SPX) Oct 15, 2007 - New sol-gel inks developed by researchers at the University of Illinois can be printed into patterns to produce three-dimensional structures of metal oxides with nanoscale features. The ability to directly pattern functional oxides at the nanoscale opens a new avenue to functional devices. Potential applications include micro-fuel cells, photonic crystals and gas sensors. The researchers describe the new inks in a paper accepted for publication in the journal Advanced Materials, and featured on its Advances in Advance Web site.
Berlin (AFP) Oct 13, 2007 - German energy group RWE wants to carry out a hostile takeover of EWE, the country's fifth biggest energy company, the weekly magazine Der Spiegel said Saturday in an advance copy of an article.
Berlin (UPI) Oct 12, 2007 - Five Eastern European states have agreed to build a new oil pipeline, in a move they say increases their energy security by reducing dependency on Russia.
Washington (UPI) Oct 12, 2007 - Attacks on French companies in Algeria by an Islamist group associated with al-Qaida are moving some of those companies to evacuate their employees, but a relatively quick response by security forces there and increasing global demand for the nation's oil and gas make it likely that energy production and export will be little affected by the violence.
Washington (UPI) Oct 12, 2007 - In the increasingly fractious scramble for the Caspian's burgeoning oil and natural gas energy reserves, resource-poor but strategically vital Eastern Europe is positioning itself to provide both consumer markets and transit routes to Russia for the former Soviet states bordering the world's largest inland sea.
Washington (UPI) Oct 12, 2007 - A representative from Dallas-based Hunt Oil Corp. did talk with the U.S. State Department prior to signing a controversial oil deal with Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government, according to an internal department communication obtained by United Press International.
Twin Cities MN (SPX) Oct 12, 2007 - University of Minnesota researchers contributed to a national effort to sequence the genome of an ancient, one-celled organism that will help advance research in a broad range of areas, from biofuels to restoring the environment to understanding a variety of human diseases.
Austin TX (SPX) Oct 12, 2007 - A modified plastic material greatly improves the ability to separate global warming-linked carbon dioxide from natural gas as the gas is prepared for use, according to engineers at The University of Texas at Austin who have analyzed the new plastic's performance.
Miami (UPI) Oct 11, 2007 - Nigeria's vice president has asked the United Nations to assist the government's efforts to stop the flow of illegal arms to the oil-rich Niger Delta, though he stressed Abuja did not want to internationalize the issue.
Washington (UPI) Oct 11, 2007 - The eyes of Western energy companies will be focused next week on Tehran, where the second Caspian Sea Littoral States Summit will convene Oct. 16.
Beijing (AFP) Oct 11, 2007 - Chinese and Japanese officials met in Beijing on Thursday for a fresh round of talks on resolving a dispute over rival claims in the energy-rich East China Sea, a government spokesman said.
Washington (UPI) Oct 10, 2007 - The Kurdistan Regional Government is offering the global oil industry its first and, so far, only chance at entering the Iraqi crude sector. Despite anger in Baghdad, the KRG plans to sign even more controversial oil deals and is waving the For Sale sign proudly.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he wants to increase the workforce of state-run petroleum company PDVSA by 35 percent in the coming year, a move some say…
