West Lafayette IN (SPX) Apr 12, 2007 - With the continued rising cost and demand for oil and gasoline, international leaders will come to Purdue University to share ideas and information on how to end global dependence on fossil fuels and move to a hydrogen economy.
Beijing (AFP) April 11, 2007 - China, the world's largest producer and consumer of coal, aims to cut its reliance on the polluting energy source while shifting more to natural gas by 2010, state press reported Wednesday.
Abu-Dhabi, UAE (RIA Novosti) Apr 11, 2007 - The current chairman of the international oil cartel, OPEC, further heightened gas consumer concerns Tuesday by saying natural gas prices might rise in the future.
Ruston LA (SPX) Apr 11, 2007 - Moisture in natural gas may no longer be an issue in the near future due to research conducted at Louisiana Tech. A sensor that has been developed by Sensacoil is as small as, or smaller than, a grain of dust and may be able to detect the moisture, which currently is costly to discover and even more so if it is not found and removed.
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2007 - As the United States looks to alternate fuel sources, ethanol has become one of the front runners. Farmers have begun planting corn in the hopes that its potential new use for corn will be a new income source.
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 10, 2007 - Using a laser-cooling technique that could one day allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in large objects, MIT researchers have cooled a coin-sized object to within one degree of absolute zero.
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) April 10, 2007 - A Malaysian firm said Tuesday it has the potential to solve global warming issues and the world's energy woes by pioneering the production of ethanol from nypa palm trees as an alternative fuel source.
Atlanta GA (SPX) Apr 10, 2007 - Researchers have demonstrated a prototype nanometer-scale generator that produces continuous direct-current electricity by harvesting mechanical energy from such environmental sources as ultrasonic waves, mechanical vibration or blood flow.
Buffalo NY (SPX) Apr 10, 2007 - Two critically important energy problems face us at this early point in the 21st Century, and our best approach to dealing with each of them is likely to involve technology that resembles a lawn mower much more than it does an oil well.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 10, 2007 - The development of unconventional and renewable energy sources is a major challenge facing humankind in the twenty-first century. Technologies such as nuclear fusion and biofuels will prove vital if humankind is to find an alternative to hydrocarbons.
Hong Kong (AFP) April 07, 2007 - A Hong Kong power company has come under attack for imposing huge charges on users who want to link green energy generators to the city's electricity grid, a report said Saturday.
Guelph, Canada (SPX) Apr 05, 2007 - Cleaner engines, cleaner air and more uses for local farm products were the focus of a just-completed study of biodiesel as an alternative fuel source on selected Ontario farms. This province-wide initiative is the only one of its kind in Canada. It involved six farms to evaluate the effectiveness of using biodiesel in agriculture.
Tallahassee FL (SPX) Apr 05, 2007 - The Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin has contracted with the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Florida State University to build an $8.7-million hybrid magnet for neutron scattering experiments. When finished in 2011, the new, high-field magnet, which is based on the magnet lab's Series-Connected Hybrid concept, will be housed at the Berlin Neutron Scattering Center.
Kinshasa, DR Congo (AFP) April 4, 2007 - With their recent agreement to extract methane gas from under Lake Kivu, one of Africa's Great Lakes, DR Congo and Rwanda hope not only to produce power but also to defuse a massive timebomb.
Paris (AFP) Apr 03, 2007 - Equipment critical to the world's greatest atom-smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, failed during a test, the European organisation for nuclear research CERN said Tuesday. Three 13-meter (43-foot) magnets manufactured and installed by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in the United States -- which is in friendly competition with CERN to identify a key elementary particle -- came apart when subjected to 20 times normal atmospheric pressure.
Hong Kong, China (RIA Novosti) Mar 30, 2007 - China could import Russian oil, gas and water, said Mark Flannery, Managing Director and Head of Credit Suisse Global Oil Team, said Thursday. Addressing a meeting of the Credit Suisse Asian Investment 2007 international conference, the expert said there was a shortage of various natural resources, including water, in northern China.
