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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.

PacWind To Offer Three New Proprietary Applications For Wind Energy

Torrance CA (SPX) Feb 14, 2007 - PacWind announced the release of their proprietary Delta I vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT), to be followed in the coming weeks by the larger Delta II VAWT and also the innovative PowerTower self sustaining lighting, and/or security, systems. The release of these products will allow widespread use of wind power in all areas of the residential and commercial sectors...and beyond...which up until now, has been impossible in the wind power industry.

Feb 14, 2007

Physicists Set Speed Limit For Future Superconducting Magnet

Evanston IL (SPX) Feb 14, 2007 - A research team led by a Northwestern University physicist has identified a high-temperature superconductor -- Bi-2212, a compound containing bismuth -- as a material that might be suitable for the new wires needed to one day build the most powerful superconducting magnet in the world, a 30 Tesla magnet.

Feb 14, 2007

SRI Consulting Releases Global Reports On Renewable Energy Materials

Menlo Park CA (SPX) Feb 14, 2007 - Predictions that fossil fuels will be stressed to their capacities by 2050 have escalated research and investments in alternative energy sources. Coupled with increasing interest from consumers and politicians on conservation and demands for energy from emerging economies, the alternative energy industry is poised for growth.

Feb 14, 2007

US Industry Warming To Climate Change Fight

Washington (AFP) Feb 14, 2007 - Saving the planet is a worthy goal, but corporate America also sees money to be made in the fight against global warming. First, however, the US business world needs its skeptical government to pave the legal and regulatory path to climate riches. Former Federal Reserve vice chairman Roger Ferguson, now a top executive at insurance giant Swiss Re, spelt out the case for government action at a climate change conference of global legislators held at the US Senate Tuesday.

Feb 14, 2007

Britain Opposes European Targets For Renewable Energy

London (AFP) Feb 13, 2007 - Britain has told European Union energy ministers that it opposes European Commission plans to set binding targets on renewable energy generation, The Guardian reported on Tuesday. The daily cited a leaked position paper sent by Britain to the European council on energy, which meets on Thursday in Brussels, where the issue is set to be discussed.

Feb 13, 2007

Palm Oil – Eco-Vandal Turned Environmental Saviour

Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Feb 11, 2007 - The oil palm must be the most reviled plant on earth, held responsible for everything from rainforest destruction and orangutan annihilation to polluted Asian skies and exploitation of workers.

Feb 11, 2007

Significant Cut In Gasoline Use Is Decades Away

Chicago (AFP) Feb 10, 2007 - It will be decades before the world will see a significant cut in global automotive gasoline consumption, automakers and analysts said. While there have been major improvements in fuel economy and reduced emissions through the development of technologies such as hybrids and clean diesel, consumers are not adopting them quickly enough to make a serious dent.

Feb 10, 2007

Cold Storage Solution For Global Warming

Leicester, UK (SPX) Feb 09, 2007 - Researchers from the University of Leicester and the British Geological Society (BGS) have proposed storing CO2 in huge underground reservoirs as a way of reducing emissions- and have even identified sites in Western Europe that would be suitable. Their research, published in the journal, Planet Earth, reveals that CO2 can be contained in cool geological aquifers or reservoirs, where it can remain harmlessly for many thousands of years.

Feb 9, 2007

Canada Will Not Participate In Carbon Market

Ottawa (AFP) Feb 8, 2007 - Canada will not introduce a carbon tax or participate in a foreign carbon market, Environment Minister John Baird told a parliamentary committee reviewing proposed clean-air measures Thursday. No carbon tax would be introduced as part of Canada's efforts to cut greenhouse-gas emissions linked to global warming, Baird told the hearing.

Feb 8, 2007

Energy Giant Total To Test Scheme To Store Carbon Emissions

Paris (AFP) Feb 8, 2007 - The French energy giant Total announced on Thursday that a trial scheme to capture and store the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) at a site in southwestern France would start operations in November 2008. CO2 will be captured from a steam-producing boiler at the ageing Lacq gas field in an experiment to test the feasibility and costs of carbon storage, it said.

Feb 8, 2007

Postdoc Series Explores Hype And Hope Of A Hydrogen Economy

Boston MA (SPX) Feb 08, 2007 - The pint-sized model car sitting on a classroom table in Building E13 encapsulates the title of the four-part IAP seminar held in January: Hydrogen: Hype or Hope? The model car, built from a kit by the seminar presenters, MIT postdoctoral associates Caetano Rodrigues Miranda and Francesca Baletto, runs on hydrogen and represents the promise of a hydrogen-based economy, with its lure of pollution-free, renewable energy.

Feb 8, 2007

Russia-Iran Gas OPEC Unlikely

Washington (UPI) Feb 08, 2007 - Will a natural gas cartel emerge that will work to increase gas prices, as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries does for oil prices? Fears that this could happen have been fueled by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's recent call for Russia and Iran -- the world's two largest natural gas producers -- to establish an organization of gas cooperation like OPEC.

Feb 8, 2007

Storing Carbon Dioxide Below Ground May Prevent Polluting Above

Boston MA (SPX) Feb 08, 2007 - A new analysis led by an MIT scientist describes a mechanism for capturing carbon dioxide emissions from a power plant and injecting the gas into the ground, where it would be trapped naturally as tiny bubbles and safely stored in briny porous rock.

Feb 8, 2007

Analysis: Chad unrest may be over oil

Miami (UPI) Feb 7, 2007 - Chad's rebels are upset with how the country handles revenue from its oil industry, experts say.

Feb 7, 2007

Chinese firms win 1.46 bln dollar hydro project in Nigeria

Abuja (AFP) Feb 07, 2007 - The Nigerian government awarded Wednesday a 1.46 billion dollar contract to two Chinese companies to construct a massive hydro-electric project in northeastern Nigeria, the energy minister said. The project is being funded under a bilateral arrangement with China. It is part of the package relationship we have with China whereby they undertake major infrastructural projects for us, the minister, Edmund Daukoru, said.

Feb 7, 2007

Energy Technology Is Our Generation’s Moon Shot

Berkeley CA (SPX) Feb 07, 2007 - Excitement and purpose were palpable today (Thursday, Feb. 1) as the governors of California and Illinois and other speakers addressed a packed press conference announcing the formation of the Energy Biosciences Institute. There was a sense that this new industry-university partnership, to develop and deliver clean, renewable sources of energy, might be a first step toward ending the Age of Fossil Fuels and avoiding global cataclysm.

Feb 7, 2007