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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

Tiny High-Frequency Cryocooler Is Cold And Efficient

Washington DC (SPX) Feb 21, 2007 - A new cryogenic refrigerator has been demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that operates at twice the usual frequency, achieving a long-sought combination of small size, rapid cooling, low temperatures and high efficiency. The cryocooler could be used to chill instruments for space and military applications, and is a significant step toward even smaller, higher-frequency versions for integrated circuits and microelectromechanical (MEM) systems.

Feb 21, 2007
Legacy Reports

Australia To Clip Greenhouse Gas Emmissions With Phase Out Of Inefficient Lighting

Canberra, Australia (SPX) Feb 20, 2007 - The Australia Government will use industry and product standards to force a phase out of incandescent light bulbs in prefence of new low watt compact fluorescent lights that can cut the typical lighting load of a house by 75% - even with all the house lights on at the same time. The step was announced by the Australian federal Environment minister Malcolm Turnbull MP who claims Australia's greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced by 4 million tonnes through to 2012.

Feb 20, 2007
Legacy Reports

Biofuel to power Indonesia’s anti-poverty drive

Jakarta (AFP) Feb 20, 2007 - Indonesia is embarking on an ambitious biofuel programme which has already attracted more than 17 billion dollars in foreign and domestic investment and criticism from conservationists worried about the country's forests. While Indonesia is rich in oil and gas supplies, demand in Southeast Asia's biggest economy is outpacing production and it is seeking alternative energy sources to secure its future.

Feb 20, 2007
Legacy Reports

London, Venezuela Sign Oil-For-Environment Expertise Deal

London (AFP) Feb 20, 2007 - The city of London signed an agreement with Venezuela here Tuesday to import cut-price petrol for its buses in return for offering its expertise on protecting the environment. The deal is aimed at benefiting Londoners on welfare payments, such as single parents and carers. In 2005, Venezuela signed deals with New York and Boston to provide cheaper heating oil for poorer city dwellers during winter.

Feb 20, 2007
Legacy Reports

Scientists Convert Heat To Power Using Organic Molecules

Berkeley CA (SPX) Feb 20, 2007 - Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have successfully generated electricity from heat by trapping organic molecules between metal nanoparticles, an achievement that could pave the way toward the development of a new source for energy. The discovery, described in a study published today (Thursday, Feb. 15) in Science Express, an electronic publication of the journal Science, is a milestone in the quest for efficient ways to directly convert heat into electricity.

Feb 20, 2007
Legacy Reports

A New Russian Energy Monopoly For Better Or For Worse

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 16, 2007 - What should we make of the recently announced decision by Gazprom and Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK) to set up a new power generation champion? The authorities have both endorsed the transaction and hurried to forecast a bright outlook for it on the Russian energy market. The reaction of the business community, however, was more equivocal. On the one hand, this seems to be a logical final stage in the consolidation of the industry.

Feb 16, 2007
Legacy Reports

Sandia Helps Develop New Wind Turbine Blade Design

Albuquerque, NM (SPX) Feb 16, 2007 - A new wind turbine blade design that researchers at Sandia National Laboratories developed in partnership with Knight and Carver (K and C) of San Diego promises to be more efficient than current designs. It should significantly reduce the cost-of-energy (COE) of wind turbines at low-wind-speed sites. Named STAR for Sweep Twist Adaptive Rotor, the blade is the first of its kind produced at a utility-grade size.

Feb 16, 2007
Legacy Reports

Reactor Upgrades Help Researchers Study Nuclear Fusion As Energy Source

Boston MA (SPX) Feb 15, 2007 - For about six months of the year, bursts of a hot, electrically charged gas, or plasma, swirl around a donut-shaped tube in a special MIT reactor, helping scientists learn more about a potential future energy source: nuclear fusion. During downtimes when the reactor is offline, as it is right now, engineers make upgrades that will help them achieve their goal of making fusion a viable energy source--a long-standing mission that will likely continue for decades.

Feb 15, 2007
Legacy Reports

Entegris Introduces Parallel Plate and Aeronex Hydrogen H2 Purification Line

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 14, 2007 - At the International Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Expo held in Tokyo, Nihon Entegris, K.K., unveiled new products to help manufacturers improve fuel cell performance - the Parallel Plate and Aeronex Hydrogen H2 purification line. These new offerings demonstrate Entegris' successful application of more than 40 years of polymer material science and manufacturing experience.

Feb 14, 2007
Legacy Reports

No Cheers In Carbon Market As Kyoto Protocol Heads For Second Birthday

Paris (AFP) Feb 14, 2007 - Two years ago on Friday, the Kyoto Protocol for cutting greenhouse gases was born after an agonising gestation, but there will be few birthday celebrations in the carbon market created by the UN pact. As US states mull setting up their own market to trade in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, they are casting a worried eye on the almighty crash in the European Union's Emissions Trading System (ETS), the first and so far only significant market in carbon.

Feb 14, 2007