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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.

Ukraine To Reprocess Toxic Rocket Fuel

Kiev (AFP) Nov 2, 2006 - Ukraine said Thursday it planned to reprocess tons of highly toxic rocket fuel left over from Soviet times and convert it into environmentally safe fertilizer. In a statement posted on the defense ministry's website, Defense Minister Anatoly Grytsenko said Ukraine had an excess 16.5 tons of the fuel, known as melange, in storage at sites around the country and said Kiev would soon take bids for the contract to reprocess it.

Nov 2, 2006

Global Warming Could Cool Oil Prices In Long Run

London (AFP) Oct 31, 2006 - Climate change, the subject of a key independent report published this week, could push oil prices lower in the long term as warmer air reduces demand for heating fuel, analysts said on Tuesday. They added that attempts to combat global warming, particularly by taxing certain forms of transport at a higher rate, could also dampen demand for gasoline or petrol, jet fuel -- and crude oil.

Oct 31, 2006

Important Advancement In Unraveling Mysteries Of Fusion Energy

Reno NV (SPX) Oct 30, 2006 - Unraveling one of most grandiose and heady problems in physics -- the creation of controlled fusion energy -- is still decades away. But thanks to research done recently on a smaller, less grandiose scale at the Nevada Terawatt Facility at the University of Nevada, Reno and in the University's College of Science, an important step has been made in the understanding of some fundamental processes required to achieve fusion energy.

Oct 30, 2006

MIT’s Pint-Sized Car Engine Promises High Efficiency, Low Cost

Cambridge MA (SPX) Oct 30, 2006 - MIT researchers are developing a half-sized gasoline engine that performs like its full-sized cousin but offers fuel efficiency approaching that of today's hybrid engine system--at a far lower cost. The key? Carefully controlled injection of ethanol, an increasingly common biofuel, directly into the engine's cylinders when there's a hill to be climbed or a car to be passed.

Oct 30, 2006

Australia To Build Southern Hemisphere’s Largest Wind Farm

Sydney (AFP) Oct 27, 2006 - Australia gave the green light to the southern hemisphere's largest wind farm Friday, the country's second major project aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions announced this week.

Oct 27, 2006

China Lowers Target For Renewable Energy

Beijing (AFP) Oct 26, 2006 - China has lowered its goal for renewable energy production but its targeted investment of 1.5 trillion yuan (187 billion dollars) in the sector remains unchanged, state press reported Thursday. The target of 20 percent renewable energy sources by 2020 has been cut to 16 percent, the China Daily said, citing Wu Guihui, a leading energy official at the ministry-level National Development and Reform Commission.

Oct 26, 2006

Global Carbon Market Hits 22 Billion Dollars

Washington (AFP) Oct 26, 2006 - The global market in carbon emissions has doubled from 2005 levels to stand at nearly 22 billion dollars so far this year, the World Bank said Thursday. All the data show that the carbon market is becoming a powerful financial force supporting clean development, said Karan Capoor, co-author of a new World Bank report on emissions trading.

Oct 26, 2006

Hard Energy Dialog: Lose In The West, Gain In The East

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 25, 2006 - Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft and China's CNPC have signed a protocol to set up a joint venture, Vostok Energy, to develop and produce mineral resources in Eastern Siberia.

Oct 25, 2006

Russia Threatens Shell-Led Energy Group With Criminal Charges

Moscow (AFP) Oct 25, 2006 - Russia turned up the heat on a giant Shell-led oil and gas project off Russia's Pacific coast Wednesday, threatening possible criminal prosecutions and license withdrawal over environmental violations. Violations at Sakhalin-2 concern at least five articles of the criminal code, Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnev was quoted by ITAR-TASS as saying during a trip to the far east island of Sakhalin, where an environmental commission has been inspecting the massive project.

Oct 25, 2006

Plutonium Or Greenhouse Gases – Weighing The Energy Options

Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Oct 24, 2006 - Can nuclear energy save us from global warming? Perhaps, but the tradeoffs involved are sobering: thousands of metric tons of nuclear waste generated each year and a greatly increased risk of nuclear weapons proliferation or diversion of nuclear material into terrorists' hands.

Oct 24, 2006

WWF Warns Of Dire Impact From Global Over-Consumption

Geneva (AFP) Oct 24, 2006 - The world's population will be using twice as many resources as the planet can produce within 50 years unless there is immediate change in the way humanity lives, the environmental group WWF said in a report released on Tuesday. We are in serious ecological overshoot, consuming resources faster than the earth can replace them, said WWF Director General James Leape. The consequences of this are predictable and dire.

Oct 24, 2006

Carbon Footprint Gaining Business Attention

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 23, 2006 - About 75 percent of companies are actively measuring their carbon footprint - the range of carbon emissions from their operations, both direct and indirect, according to a report released today from The Conference Board. The report, based on a survey of 92 companies from various industries, looks at how companies are integrating greenhouse gas management into their overall business strategy.

Oct 23, 2006

Fusion In The Fast Lane

Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Oct 23, 2006 - Using fast digital imaging, scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany, together with researchers from College de France, have succeeded in developing two different protocols by which one can initiate the fusion process in a controlled manner and observe the subsequent fusion dynamics with a temporal resolution in the microsecond regime.

Oct 23, 2006

Russia’s New Stick For Beating Oil Firms

Moscow (AFP) Oct 22, 2006 - Russian environmental authorities have become a new pressure instrument used by the state against oil companies often for political ends, analysts and campaigners said. Rosprirodnadzor, the country's environmental monitoring agency, is taking centre stage in Russia's business world just two years after the government body was set up.

Oct 22, 2006

Spain To Bring On Stream Europe’s Largest Thermosolar Station

Seville (AFP) Oct 22, 2006 - Spain, championing the drive towards renewable energy, is set to launch production of solar energy from what will be Europe's largest thermo-electric plant. The thermo-electric solar plant at Sanlucar La Mayor, near the southern city of Seville, appears the perfect place to boost the drive to wean Spain off its dependence on oil, as the sun beats down almost incessantly on the southern Andalusia region.

Oct 22, 2006

Despite Popular Belief, The World Is Not Running Out Of Oil

Philadelphia PA (SPX) Oct 20, 2006 - If you think the world is on the verge of running out of oil or other mineral resources, you've been taken in by the foremost of seven myths about resource geology, according to a University of Washington economic geologist. The most common question I get is, 'When are we going to run out of oil.' The correct response is, 'Never,' said Eric Cheney.

Oct 20, 2006