Bio Fuel
Lightning strike hits UK biogas facility
London (AFP) Oct 2, 2023 - A lightning strike hit a UK food waste recycling plant on Monday, sending a huge fireball into the night sky and cutting power nearby.
Oil and Gas
California’s green drive leaves its oil towns behind
Taft, United States (AFP) Oct 1, 2023 - Fred Holmes watches with satisfaction as pumps pull oil from deep under his California farm, tapping a supply he thinks could last another century.
Oil and Gas
Netherlands halts extraction from Europe’s biggest gas field
The Hague (AFP) Oct 1, 2023 - The Netherlands halted extraction from Europe's biggest gas field on Sunday, which was resulting in earthquakes that have shaken local residents for decades and threaten to persist.
Energy News
Vietnam confirms arrest of energy think tank chief
Hanoi (AFP) Oct 1, 2023 - Vietnam confirmed on Sunday the arrest of an energy policy think tank director, the sixth expert working on environmental issues to be taken into custody in the last two years.
Oil and Gas
Britain approves $9.85B Rosebank oilfield development project
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 27, 2023 - British regulators on Wednesday approved a new $9.85 billion project to develop a major 500 million barrel oil and gas field in the North Sea by the Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor and Britain's Ithaca Energy.
Bio Fuel
Is there more to palm oil than deforestation?
Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Sep 26, 2023 - Palm oil is the world's most produced and consumed vegetable oil and everyone knows that its production can damage the environment. But do consumers have the full picture? In fact, replacing palm oi
Oil and Gas
Predicting the sustainability of a future hydrogen economy
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 26, 2023 - As renewable energy sources like wind and solar ramp up, they can be used to sustainably generate hydrogen fuel. But implementing such a strategy on a large scale requires land and water dedicated t
Energy News
What is the carbon footprint of a hospital bed?
Waterloo, Canada (SPX) Sep 26, 2023 - Researchers from the University of Waterloo completed the first-ever assessment of a Canadian hospital to reveal its total environmental footprint and specific carbon emission hotspots. Studyi
Oil and Gas
DLR acquires flying hydrogen laboratory and demonstrates whole-system solutions
Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Sep 26, 2023 - On 25 September 2023, the German Aerospace Center took delivery of the new D328 UpLift research aircraft during the National Aviation Conference and in the presence of the Federal Minister for Econo
Energy Tech
Cheap and efficient catalyst could boost renewable energy storage
London, UK (SPX) Sep 25, 2023 - Storing renewable energy as hydrogen could soon become much easier thanks to a new catalyst based on single atoms of platinum. The new catalyst, designed by researchers at City University Hong
Wind Daily
Harvesting wind energy in small countries with low wind speed and limited
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 25, 2023 - Does it makes business and economic sense to harvest energy in a densely-populated highly built-up land-scarce jurisdiction where high wind speed is almost non-existent? And in the case of floating
Energy Tech
REPT BATTERO Unveiling Transformative Battery Tech Data and North American Alliances at RE+ 2023
Tianjin, China (SPX) Sep 25, 2023 - REPT BATTERO's presence at this year's RE+ Expo marked a noteworthy moment in the evolution of sustainable energy solutions. The company, a leader in the field since its 2017 inception, took the sta
Energy Tech
New approach may help extract more heat from geothermal reservoirs
University Park PA (SPX) Sep 25, 2023 - Geothermal heat offers a promising source of renewable energy with almost zero emissions, but it remains a relatively expensive option to generate electricity. A new technique proposed by Penn State
Energy Tech
Warming up! 30 years of fusion-energy research at EPFL
Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 25, 2023 - The intense heat and pressure inside stars, such as the Sun, cause pairs of atoms, especially hydrogen atoms, to come together or 'fuse'. When these light nuclei merge into a heavier nucleus, some m
Wind Daily
How wind turbines react to turbulence
Oldenburg, Germany (SPX) Sep 25, 2023 - The power output of wind turbines can go up or down by 50 percent within seconds. Such fluctuations in the megawatt range put a strain on both power grids and the turbines themselves. A new study by
Energy Tech
Golden future for thermoelectrics
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Sep 25, 2023 - Thermoelectrics enable the direct conversion of heat into electrical energy - and vice versa. This makes them interesting for a range of technological applications. In the search for thermoelectric