London (AFP) Aug 30, 2006 - World oil prices tumbled below 70 dollars on Tuesday on forecasts that tropical storm Ernesto, which had threatened US Gulf Coast oil facilities, would remain below hurricane force, traders said.
Los Angeles (SPX) Aug 30, 2006 - Fuel ethanol could be cheaply and quickly converted into the purer, cleaner alcohol that goes into alcoholic drinks, cough medicines, mouth washes and other products requiring food-grade alcohol, say Iowa State University researchers.
St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 29, 2006 - Boeing has signed a contract to provide 600,000 solar concentrator cells to SolFocus, a California-based renewable energy company that is developing renewable terrestrial energy alternatives.
Sydney (AFP) Aug 28, 2006 - Prime Minister John Howard Monday resisted calls in a report sponsored by big business for Australia to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent by 2050 to fight the effects of global warming.
Los Angeles (SPX) Aug 28, 2006 - A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has received $1.8 million in federal funding to improve the energy efficiency of green light-emitting diodes (LEDs).
New Orleans (AFP) Louisiana, Aug 25, 2006 - Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production is still recovering from massive damage inflicted by hurricanes Katrina and Rita last year and the industry is nervously watching to see what this year holds in store.
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Aug 23, 2006 - An international team of research scientists has reported greater knowledge of how gas hydrate deposits form in nature, subsequent to a scientific ocean-drilling expedition off Canada's western coast. A natural geologic hazard, gas hydrate is largely natural gas, and thus, may significantly impact global climate change.
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Aug 22, 2006 - The Planning Minister, Rob Hulls, today gave the green light to building Australia's most powerful wind farm at Mt Gellibrand, near Colac, with the capacity to power 133,450 homes a year.
United Nations (AFP) Aug 21, 2006 - Britain, France, Ireland and Spain are to launch a bid to extend their territorial waters at a UN conference on ocean rights that opens on Monday, thus grabbing precious natural resources. In a joint submission to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, the four states have applied to extend their territorial waters in the Bay of Biscay and the Celtic Sea to beyond the current legal limit of 200 nautical miles.
New York (AFP) Aug 21, 2006 - World crude prices rose Monday after key crude producer Iran said that it would press on with nuclear work despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for a freeze, analysts said. The Security Council has given Iran until the end of this month to halt uranium enrichment -- which makes fuel for nuclear power plants but which can be diverted to make weapons -- or face possible sanctions.
Paris (AFP) Aug 20, 2006 - More than two years since France brought up its last lump of coal and turned its back on three centuries of mining industry, a new consortium plans to reopen a pit and resume excavations. As the world faces spiralling energy costs from record high oil prices, a group of French investors has placed their bets on the black rock that powered Europe's Industrial Revolution in the 19th century.
Folsom CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2006 - Jadoo Power Systems Inc. (Jadoo) www.jadoopower.com, the leading supplier of portable fuel cell power systems, announced today that Kuchera Defense Systems (KDS) has awarded Jadoo a contract to develop the next evolution in advanced fuel cell system designs.
Dublin (AFP) Aug 18, 2006 - An Irish company threw down the gauntlet on Friday to the worldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims produces free energy. The company, Steorn, says its discovery is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant energy -- a concept that challenges one of the basic rules of physics.
New York (AFP) Aug 18, 2006 - Crude prices rose on Friday, despite briefly falling under 70 dollars in New York, as traders turned their focus to Iran's budding nuclear ambitions which have already triggered international angst.
St Louis MO (SPX) Aug 16, 2006 - Boeing has announced it has signed a multi-million dollar contract to supply concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) cell assemblies to an Australian company that produces renewable solar energy.
Los Angeles (SPX) Aug 15, 2006 - Country music legend Willie Nelson and biological engineer San Fernando have a lot in common. The common link between the singer and the Mississippi State University professor is biodiesel, a fuel for diesel engines produced by blending petroleum diesel with refined vegetable oil.
