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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.

Planning And Guidelines Are Lacking As Use Of Wind Energy In US Grows

Washington DC (SPX) May 04, 2007 - Although the use of wind energy to generate electricity is increasing rapidly in the United States, government guidance to help communities and developers evaluate and plan proposed wind-energy projects is lacking, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council. To inform the development of guidelines, the report offers an analysis of the environmental benefits and drawbacks of wind energy, along with an evaluation guide to aid decision-making about projects.

May 4, 2007

Viaspace Expands Focus On Energy Products Including New Opportunities In Clean Energy Sector

Pasadena CA (SPX) May 04, 2007 - Viaspace has announced plans to expand its energy-based products into a major business focus. The company has established Viaspace Energy as a business unit to accelerate the growth of its existing direct methanol fuel cell cartridge business and fuel cell humidity sensor product line and to pursue new opportunities identified within the $55.4 billion clean energy sector.

May 4, 2007

Cell Splits Water Via Sunlight To Produce Hydrogen

St Louis MO (SPX) May 03, 2007 - Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a unique photocatalytic cell that splits water to produce hydrogen and oxygen in water using sunlight and the power of a nanostructured catalyst.

May 3, 2007

Offshore Oilfield Development Could Enjoy Tax Breaks

Murmansk, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 03, 2007 - Companies developing offshore oil deposits could enjoy tax breaks, Russia's president said Wednesday. Such a decision needs assessments, Vladimir Putin said, speaking at a session of the State Council and the Maritime Board, a government agency overseeing seaports and the commercial fleet, in the ice-free Barents Sea port of Murmansk in northern Russia.

May 3, 2007

Old King Coal Hard To Dethrone

Paris (AFP) May 03, 2007 - Dirty and dangerous, coal is a notorious source of climate damage yet is destined to remain a key energy source for decades to come. Coal's 19th-century image of puffing steam trains and billowing factory chimneys belies the fact it is firmly cemented in the 21st century, accounting for nearly half of the planet's energy mix.

May 3, 2007

Putin Vows To Develop Arctic Transport For Energy And National Interest

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday Russia should develop transport in the Arctic to support future energy projects and Russia's.

May 3, 2007

Scientists Seek Ways To Bury Greenhouse Gases

Bangkok (AFP) May 03, 2007 - Scientists believe that finding a way to bury the world's greenhouse gas problem -- quite literally -- could be an important step to curbing climate change, but the technology is still in its infancy. The technology would capture carbon dioxide released by power plants or other factories, transport it and bury it underground -- either in old oil fields or coal mines, or even at the bottom of the ocean.

May 3, 2007

X-Ray Holograms Expose Secret Magnetism

Chicago IL (SPX) May 03, 2007 - Collaborative research between scientists in the UK and USA has led to a major breakthrough in the understanding of antiferromagnets, published in this week's Nature. Scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, the University of Chicago and the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory have used x-rays to see the internal workings of antiferromagnets for the very first time.

May 3, 2007

ADB To Lend India 79.3 Mln Dlrs For Wind Energy Project

Manila (AFP) May 02, 2007 - The Asia Development Bank (ADB) said Wednesday it had approved a 79.3 million dollar loan to India's largest private power company to set up and operate wind energy facilities. The loan will support Tata Power Co. Ltd in setting up and running wind power facilities in the state of Maharashtra which will produce 100 megawatts of electricity, the ADB said in a statement from its Manila-based headquarters.

May 2, 2007

Laser-Trapping Of Rare Element Gets Unexpected Assist

Argonne IL (SPX) May 02, 2007 - Argonne researchers have successfully laser-cooled and trapped atoms of radium - the first time this rare element has been captured in a magneto-optical trap - with an assist from an unexpected source.

May 2, 2007

Ultrashort Light Pulse Blazes New Paths For Science And Industry

Baltimore MD (SPX) May 02, 2007 - Researchers in Italy have created an ultrashort light pulse - a single isolated burst of extreme-ultraviolet light that lasts for only 130 attoseconds (billionths of a billionth of a second). Their achievement currently represents the shortest artificial light pulse that has been reported in a refereed journal. Shining this ultrashort light pulse on atoms and molecules can reveal new details of their inner workings-providing benefits to fundamental science as well as potential industrial applications such as better controlling chemical reactions.

May 2, 2007

Moscow Gets The Upper Hand In The Fight For Central Asian Gas

Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 01, 2007 - During his first visit to Moscow, the new president of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, guaranteed President Vladimir Putin that his country's 2003-2028 contract with Gazprom would remain unchanged.

May 1, 2007

China Warns Against Rich Only Climate Agenda

Bangkok (AFP) April 30, 2007 - China warned here Monday that the developed world should not dominate a key UN meeting aimed at tackling global warming, while insisting it was fully committed to fighting climate change. As the week-long meeting of about 400 of the world's top scientists and experts began to look at how to combat global warming, a Chinese delegate called for the interests of poorer countries to be recognised.

Apr 30, 2007

Oceanlinx Moves To Establish Wave Energy Park In State Of Oregon In United States

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 30, 2007 - Oceanlinx Limited, the leading international developer of wave technology for renewable energy and clean water, has, through its US subsidiary, applied to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for a preliminary permit to establish a wave energy facility offshore of Florence in the state of Oregon on the West coast of the United States.

Apr 30, 2007

Oddball Schemes To Fix Global Warming Get Panned

Paris (AFP) Apr 30, 2007 - Unconventional schemes for tackling global warming by installing a giant sunshade in orbit, sowing the seas with iron and scattering sulphur into the upper atmosphere are set to be bluntly rejected by UN experts this week. The oddball initiatives are being fostered by geo-engineers -- scientists who say headway to reduce the fossil-fuel pollution which drives global warming is so ludicrously slow that bold new ideas are needed to avert climate catastrophe.

Apr 30, 2007

The Oily Diplomacy Of Japan

Tokyo (UPI) April 30, 2007 - The United States remains Japan's single most important ally politically and militarily as well as economically, but that is not stopping Tokyo from making greater overtures to the Middle East.

Apr 30, 2007