Madison WI (SPX) Jul 06, 2006 - The soaring prices of oil and natural gas have sparked a race to make transportation fuels from plant matter instead of petroleum. Both biodiesel and gasoline containing ethanol are starting to make an impact on the market.
London (AFP) Jul 06, 2006 - The price of crude oil, fresh from striking a new record above 75 dollars in New York on rising tensions over North Korea and Iran, is likely to hurtle beyond 80 dollars per barrel before the end of 2006, according to one London analyst.
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 06, 2006 - Saft announced Wednesday it has received a contract from Boeing to supply lithium-ion batteries for the Mobile Satellite Ventures Satellite program. The multi-million dollar contract will mark Saft's largest U.S. commercial satellite contract for Li-ion batteries and the first commercial satellite program utilizing Li-ion technology for Boeing.
Ottawa (AFP) Jul 05, 2006 - The premier of oil-rich Alberta scorned former US presidential candidate Al Gore over his scathing sketch of its massive oil sands industry as wasteful and a blight on Canada, said reports Wednesday.
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Jul 04, 2006 - The most obvious manifestation of an earthquake is the shaking from seismic waves that knocks down buildings and rattles people. Now researchers have established a more subtle effect of this shaking--it increases the permeability of rock to groundwater and other fluids.
Washington (AFP) Jul 03, 2006 - Environmental groups on Friday accused the US Congress of selling out to the energy lobby after the House of Representatives voted to lift a 25-year moratorium on offshore oil and natural gas drilling.
Paris (UPI) Jun 30, 2006 - The first global survey of lighting uses and costs suggests the world's electric bill would greatly decrease with a switch to efficient lighting systems. The Paris-based International Energy Agency, which conducted the study, said it found lighting is a major source of electricity consumption.
Berlin (UPI) Jun 30, 2006 - Germany plans to phase out nuclear energy by 2021, but the country's energy companies are racing to build new atomic power plants all over Europe, much to the dismay of the governing Social Democrats.
San Francisco (AFP) Jun 28, 2006 - The Sierra Club filed a federal lawsuit in San Francisco on Wednesday charging the US Department of Defense (DOD) with blocking the construction of wind power plants. The environmental group accused the Pentagon of essentially creating a nationwide moratorium on new wind farms by barring their construction within the line of sight of military radar.
Atlanta GA (SPX) Jun 27, 2006 - Georgia Tech researchers have created a new combustor (combustion chamber where fuel is burned to power an engine or gas turbine) designed to burn fuel in a wide range of devices ? with next to no emission of nitrogen oxide (NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO), two of the primary causes of air pollution.
Vernon TX (SPX) Jun 27, 2006 - Vernon - The dense mesquite-covered mid-section of Texas could provide fuel for about 400 small ethanol plants, according to one Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researcher.
Uniontown PA (SPX) Jun 26, 2006 - There may not be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but there appears to be nanocrystalline diamonds at the end of a process to produce and store hydrogen using anthracite coal. The idea we explored was based on ball milling graphite processes found in the hydrogen storage literature, said Angela D. Lueking, assistant professor of energy and geoenvironmental engineering.
New York (UPI) Jun 26, 2006 - Capsules only nanometers or billionths of a meter wide that stabilize extremely dangerous compounds normally prone to igniting or exploding can safely generate more than enough hydrogen gas to beat U.S. Department of Energy goals for hydrogen production for 2015 just by dropping them in water.
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London (AFP) Jun 25, 2006 - Planning laws in Britain could be changed to allow the installation of so-called micro-generation technologies like mini-turbines and solar panels, a government minister told The Observer Sunday.
Vancouver (AFP) Jun 22, 2006 - Amid dire warnings of cities in crisis, China, which suffers from pollution and many other modern day ills, has come up with its own city of the future, the UN World Urban Forum was told Thursday.
