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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.

Making US Nuclear Materials More Secure

Washington (UPI) Oct 20, 2006 - The U.S. Department of Energy is preparing to alter its method of securing nuclear materials because of environmental considerations. The Federal Register reported Oct. 19 that the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration is issuing a Supplement to the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement -- Complex 2030 to analyze the environmental impacts of transforming the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal over the next 24 years.

Oct 20, 2006

Putin Calls For National Energy Sector Development Plan

Novo-Ogaryovo, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 20, 2006 - Russia's president urged the Cabinet Thursday to draw up a comprehensive energy sector development program that would diversify sources of energy and provide equal access to fuel for all economic operators. We cannot make the entire national economy work on just one fuel - natural gas, Vladimir Putin said. This is inadmissible, if only from the point of view of national security.

Oct 20, 2006

Silicon Valley Eyes Solar Energy

Los Angeles (XNA) Oct 20, 2006 - As demand for clean energy rises around the world, Silicon Valley firms in Northern California are looking to develop solar energy, a report said on Tuesday. The region's venture capitalists, chip makers and entrepreneurs bet on sun power, which also relies on silicon, said the report on the Los Angeles Times website.

Oct 20, 2006

British-Dutch Letter To EU Leaders Urges Climate Security Action

London (AFP) Oct 19, 2006 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Dutch counterpart, Jan Peter Balkenende, said the world is close to catastrophic tipping points in an open letter released Thursday, on the eve of an EU leaders' meeting in Finland. The pair say that climate change and energy security should be treated as two parts of the same issue -- climate security -- in order to address it.

Oct 19, 2006

Canada Sets New Greenhouse Gases Reduction Target For 2050

Ottawa (AFP) Oct 19, 2006 - Canada will aim to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming by 45-65 percent by 2050, meanwhile ignoring its more stringent Kyoto Protocol commitment, according to a proposed clean air act. The Conservative government's proposal immediately drew the ire of environmentalists and the Liberal opposition.

Oct 19, 2006

Biofuel Cells Without The Bio Cells

Richland WA (SPX) Oct 18, 2006 - Proteins keep cells humming. Some are enzymes that taxi electrons to chemicals outside the cell, to discharge excess energy generated during metabolism. This maintains energy flow in the cell and, in turn, keeps the cell alive. The process has worked a little like that slogan for a hyper-electrified desert gambling town: What happens in the cellular environs stays there.

Oct 18, 2006

Russian Envionment Agency To Inspect Gazprom Neft Activities

Moscow (AFP) Oct 18, 2006 - Russian environmental authorities are to review the exploitation licenses held by Gazprom Neft, the oil subsidiary of gas producer Gazprom, the Natural Resources Ministry said Wednesday. Gazprom Neft currently has more than 50 oil development licenses, the ministry said in a statement, without specifying how many of them would be inspected.

Oct 18, 2006

A Boost For Solar Cells With Photon Fusion

Mainz, Germany (SPX) Oct 16, 2006 - Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz have developed a process with which longwave light from a normal light source can be converted to shortwave light.

Oct 16, 2006

Think-Tank To Focus On Aluminium Industry Sustainability

Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Oct 13, 2006 - Highlighting the role of research in keeping Australia's aluminium industry sustainable - economically as well as environmentally - will be the focus of a two-day industry forum commencing today in Melbourne. The forum will provide an opportunity for key people from industry, the research community and government to discuss the role of innovation in helping Australian producers compete in an increasingly competitive global market.

Oct 13, 2006

Harvesting Machine Driving Mesquite-to-Ethanol Potential

Vernon TX (SPX) Oct 12, 2006 - Knocking down mesquite hasn't been a problem in the past. Picking it up and getting it off the land has, said a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researcher. That will change with a new mesquite harvester for use in wood-to-ethanol production, said Dr. Jim Ansley, Experiment Station rangeland ecologist. The only one of these machines in existence was demonstrated at the 2006 Range and Wildlife Field Day on Oct. 5 in Vernon.

Oct 12, 2006

Russia-Germany Energy Cooperation Could Be Extended

Dresden (RIA Novosti) Oct 11, 2006 - Energy cooperation between Russia and Germany could be extended so that the FRG could turn from a consumer to a large European distribution center for natural gas and oil, Russia's president said Tuesday. Russia and Germany have been expanding their energy ties lately, in particular through the Nord Stream pipeline between the two countries (the North European Gas Pipeline), of which former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder heads the shareholders' board.

Oct 11, 2006

Russian Export Blend Could Replace Urals Crude As Main Index Setter

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 10, 2006 - REBCO, Russia's new export blend crude oil, should replace Urals blend as the basis for calculating supply prices, export duties and mineral extraction tax, a deputy economics minister said Monday. There is a possibility of shifting from Urals to REBCO in [calculating] mineral extraction tax and export duties in 2008, and of making REBCO Russia's price index, Kirill Androsov told a news conference.

Oct 10, 2006

China Poses No Threat To Global Energy Supply

Beijing (XNA) Oct 09, 2006 - China's economic growth poses no threat to the global energy supply, Long Yongtu, general secretary of the Bo'ao Asian Forum and China's former chief negotiator at the World Trade Organization (WTO) has said. The notion of a Chinese threat to the global energy supply reflects fears about China's rise on the part of some Westerners, Long said Saturday in Beijing at an international forum on China's energy strategy.

Oct 9, 2006

Sandia Selected As National Center for Solid-State Lighting Research

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 09, 2006 - U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman announced today that Sandia National Laboratories is the new home of the National Laboratory Center for Solid-State Lighting Research and Development. He made the announcement at a news conference at Sandia's International Programs Building. Sandia will conduct vital solid-state lighting research and coordinate related research efforts at several other national laboratories.

Oct 9, 2006

Can Colorado Oil Shale Ease America Energy Woes

New York (AFP) Oct 06, 2006 - Big energy companies are making major bets on Rocky Mountain oil shale as the United States looks for ways to reduce reliance on foreign countries for its oil supplies. Several energy companies, including the Royal/Dutch Shell Group and Chevron Corporation, have been quietly examining ways to extract oil shale from beneath the three western US states of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

Oct 6, 2006

Air Force Making Progress On Alternative Fuels

Washington DC (AFNS) Oct 05, 2006 - The Air Force is embracing an energy strategy that uses alternative sources of power and conservation, a top Air Force official said here recently. I think we're making progress, but we certainly need your help and we look forward to increasing partnerships and taking advantage of the good ideas and products you are developing, Air Force Undersecretary Dr. Ron Sega told a group of civilian energy engineers during a World Energy Engineers Congress luncheon Sept. 15.

Oct 5, 2006