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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

Carbon Storage Eyed In New US-Australian Climate Change projects

Nairobi (AFP) Nov 16, 2006 - The United States and its ally on the global warming issue, Australia, on Thursday added new projects, including carbon storage, to a bilateral initiative on climate change, according to a press statement. US Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky and Australian Environment Minister Ian Campbell agreed on the additions on the sidelines of the UN climate conference in Nairobi, the US State Department said.

Nov 16, 2006
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Ukraine, Poland Urge Faster Odessa-Brody Oil Pipeline Extension

Kiev (RIA Novosti) Nov 16, 2006 - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski have made the extension of the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline to Poland a cooperation priority, the Ukrainian presidential press service said Wednesday. The pipeline was initially designed to supply Caspian oil to Northern Europe, but has instead been used in reverse mode since 2004 to transport Russian oil south to the Mediterranean basin.

Nov 16, 2006
Legacy Reports

Wireless Energy Transfer Can Potentially Charge Cell Phones Without Cords

College Park, MD (SPX) Nov 16, 2006 - Recharging your laptop computer -- and also your cell phone and a variety of other gadgets -- might one day be doable in the same convenient way many people now surf the Web: wirelessly. Marin Soljacic of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will present research by himself and his colleagues Aristeidis Karalis and John Joannopoulos on the physics of electromagnetic fields, showing how wireless energy could power future gadgets. The MIT team is also working on demonstrating the technology in practice.

Nov 16, 2006
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Business Leaders, Laboratory Tours Highlight Energy Research Showcase

Blacksburg VA (SPX) Nov 15, 2006 - Business and government leaders, speaking at the Energy Research Engagement Showcase at Virginia Tech on Nov. 29 and 30, will address renewable and non-renewable energy opportunities and challenges and Virginia's efforts to commercialize energy research. Speakers include Tom French, senior vice president for nuclear engineering at AREVA NP Inc. and Mitch King, president of Old Mill Power Company.

Nov 15, 2006
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‘Tornadoes’ Are Transferred From Light To Sodium Atoms

Gaithersburg MD (SPX) Nov 15, 2006 - For the first time, tornado-like rotational motions have been transferred from light to atoms in a controlled way at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The new quantum physics technique can be used to manipulate Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), a state of matter of worldwide research interest, and possibly used in quantum information systems, an emerging computing and communications technology of potentially great power.

Nov 15, 2006
Legacy Reports

BAE Systems Selected To Participate In Fuel Cell Bus Program

Johnson City NY (SPX) Nov 14, 2006 - The Federal Transit Administration has selected BAE Systems to develop advanced hydrogen fuel-cell technology on a hybrid electric transit bus. The $5.35 million FTA award is part of the agency's National Fuel Cell Bus Technology Development Program. The award will be distributed over four years by WestStart CALSTART, a non-profit organization that develops advanced transportation technologies.

Nov 14, 2006
Legacy Reports

Developing Uses For Sugar-Cane Bagasse: Biotechnology Applied To The Paper Industry

Paris, France (SPX) Nov 14, 2006 - The principal raw material used for manufacturing paper pulp is wood. However, growing demand in the paper industry, at a time of dwindling forest resources, have compelled the sector to turn to other sources of raw materials, such as cereal straw, reeds, bamboo or sugar-cane bagasse. This residue, obtained after crushing of the cane, is already used as a source of paper-making fibres in producer countries (in South America and India for example, where it represents 20 % of the paper production).

Nov 14, 2006
Legacy Reports

Propane Fuel Cell Passes Muster At Exit Glacier Nature Center

Fairbanks AK (SPX) Nov 14, 2006 - The Alaska Energy Technology Development Laboratory at the University of Alaska Fairbanks recently announced a successful field test of a prototype propane fuel cell. The cell, manufactured by Massachusetts-based Acumentrics and installed at the Kenai Fjords National Park's Exit Glacier Nature Center near Seward, ran for more than 1,100 hours straight and did so with no measurable degradation in its efficiency.

Nov 14, 2006
Legacy Reports

Russia To Raise Gas Prices For CIS States

Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 14, 2006 - The majority of the former Soviet countries are almost entirely dependent on energy supplies from Russia. Meanwhile, political realities and current trends on the global energy market do not make a fall in gas prices very likely. Russia's fuel and energy sector accounted for 40.5% of the country's exports to the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in 2005, an increase of 10.7% on 2004 in money terms.

Nov 14, 2006