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Editorial Team

Energy Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

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.

Legacy Reports

Software Patch Makes Car More Fuel-Efficient

Eindhoven, Netherlands (SPX) Mar 05, 2007 - A car wastes energy almost continuously. Whether it is running in first, second, or a higher gear, there is only one position of the accelerator that guarantees optimal performance. Accelerating a little less or a little bit more can cause considerable loss of energy. John Kessels has designed a way to save energy by enabling the car to achieve optimal engine performance more frequently.

Mar 5, 2007
Legacy Reports

China Takes First Green Steps To Remake Electronics Industry

Beijing (AFP) March 02, 2007 - Chinese manufacturers of electronic products will for the first time have to tell their customers whether their products contain environmentally harmful substances, state media reported on Friday. Ten categories of electronic products, including home appliances and mobile phones, will be required to carry green or orange tags, indicating whether they are environmentally friendly or not, Xinhua news agency reported.

Mar 2, 2007
Legacy Reports

Nevada Professor Demonstrates New Hydrogen Fuel System

Reno NV (SPX) Feb 26, 2007 - Northern Nevada energy consumers can be excused if they have a sense of sticker shock when their power bills come due following the holiday season. Or, that they have a feeling of powerlessness as the price of gasoline climbs to $3 per gallon. They wonder: will the days of the $1 tank of gas ever return? Thanks to research done by a University of Nevada, Reno professor in the area of hydrogen energy generation, soaring power bills could become a thing of the past.

Feb 26, 2007
Legacy Reports

Insatiable Investment Funds In Hot Pursuit Of Huge Prey

Washington (AFP) Feb 25, 2007 - The widely anticipated takeover of a Texas energy giant by Texas Pacific Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts for more than 30 billion dollars, likely to be announced Sunday, showcases the insatiable appetite and deep pockets of private investment funds. According to The New York Times, the board of TXU Corp. could agree to a buyout valued at between 30 billion and 45 billion dollars, if debt of roughly 12 billion dollars is included.

Feb 25, 2007
Legacy Reports

New Coal-Fire Plants Stoke Environmental Battle In Texas

Austin TX (AFP) Feb 25, 2007 - While the rest of the world worries about global warming, in Texas, lawmakers and industrialists say the future is coal, even if that means spewing out more heat-trapping gas each year than Sweden or Portugal. Already the US leader in carbon emissions, Texas, home state of President George W. Bush, would see its carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions explode if the proposed 16 coal-fired plants are built.

Feb 25, 2007
Legacy Reports

Effective Carbon Control Policy Can Improve Competition Climate And Power Costs

Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Feb 23, 2007 - Jay Apt, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business and co-author of a forthcoming paper outlining incentives for controlling carbon emissions, warns of the consequences of delay in enacting effective electric sector policy. He will present his research in a presentation titled Controlling Carbon in the United States Electric Power Sector, Feb. 18 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) annual meeting in San Francisco.

Feb 23, 2007
Legacy Reports

From Farm Waste To Fuel Tanks

Arlington VA (SPX) Feb 23, 2007 - Using corncob waste as a starting material, researchers have created carbon briquettes with complex nanopores capable of storing natural gas at an unprecedented density of 180 times their own volume and at one seventh the pressure of conventional natural gas tanks. The breakthrough, announced today in Kansas City, Mo., is a significant step forward in the nationwide effort to fit more automobiles to run on methane, an abundant fuel that is domestically produced and cleaner burning than gasoline.

Feb 23, 2007
Legacy Reports

New Russo Pipeline An Alternative To Unreliable Oil Transit

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 23, 2007 - Moscow has accepted a rise of oil transit tariffs by an average of 30%, but this has not put an end to the Russian-Belarusian oil-and-gas squabble - Minsk's decision is fraught with a whole package of problems. Today, the Russian government is considering a project to extend the Baltic Pipeline System. Russia may have to invest heavily but if it builds the new pipe, Belarus will lose two thirds of the Russian oil transit. In proportion, transit will go down for Poland and Ukraine, but the end user will have guaranteed supplies.

Feb 23, 2007
Legacy Reports

Strain Has Major Effect On High-Temp Superconductors

Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 22, 2007 - Just a little mechanical strain can cause a large drop in the maximum current carried by high-temperature superconductors, according to novel measurements carried out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The effect, which is reversible, adds a new dimension to designing superconducting systems-particularly for electric power applications-and it also provides a new tool that will help scientists probe the fundamental mechanism behind why these materials carry current with no resistance.

Feb 22, 2007