Delft, The Netherlands (SPX) Mar 10, 2006 - One problem confronting the oil industry is that extracted mineral oil (due to increasing scarcity) is becoming heavier and 'dirtier'. This is reflected, for instance, in a higher content of aromatics (which among other things lead to soot emissions during combustion in diesel engines) and of sulphur (which among things causes acid rain).
Ottawa ON (SPX) Mar 10, 2006 - Funding from the Government of Canada is helping homeowners in Hamilton to conserve energy and reduce peak power consumption during summer heat waves. Today, a new air-handling system makes its debut at a new Hamilton townhouse development.
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 09, 2006 - CSIRO technology will help to reduce black-outs and improve the reliability and efficiency of the electricity grid while reducing greenhouse emissions.It will also complement smart electricity meters promising consumers more choice and control over their usage.
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Mar 09, 2006 - Sandia's Z machine has produced plasmas that exceed temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin -- hotter than the interiors of stars. The unexpectedly hot output, if its cause were understood and harnessed, could eventually mean that smaller, less costly nuclear fusion plants would produce the same amount of energy as larger plants.
Shanghai (AFP) Mar 09, 2006 - Shanghai residents can for the first time buy clean power after solar and wind-generated electricity was this week included in the Chinese city's power grid, the firm behind the project said Wednesday. The project by Shanghai Municipal Electricity Power company is aimed at cleaning up Shanghai's polluted environment, company spokesman Yu Qinde said.
Washington (AFP) Mar 07, 2006 - New industrial technologies and novel financial ideas can help the fight against global warming by cutting greenhouse gas emissions, according to scientists and climate experts gathered here by the World Bank. Among new technologies, carbon capture and sequestration made more converts, and trading in carbon emissions rights on financial markets got an encouraging boost.
Chemists at UCLA and the University of Michigan report an advance toward the goal of cars that run on hydrogen rather than gasoline.
Seattle WA (SPX) Mar 07, 2006 - Curiosity about the microbial world drove Jan Amend, Ph.D., associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University to Vulcano Island, Italy, a shallow hydrothermal Shangri-la near Sicily.
St. Louis MO (SPX) Mar 06, 2006 - Nobody completely understands superconductors. So fathom how James S. Schilling, Ph.D., led a team that makes the phenomenon work better. Schilling, a professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, collaborated with recent doctoral graduate Takahiro Tomita and scientists at Argonne (Ill.) National Laboratory to determine whether one region in superconductors, called grain boundaries (GB), are oxygen deficient. Such oxygen deficiency impairs superconductor performance.
Moscow (AFP) Mar 06, 2006 - Russian scientists and environmental activists announced Monday they would take the country's government to court over a plan to build an oil pipeline to Asian markets close to pristine Lake Baikal.
Washington (AFP) Mar 06, 2006 - Meeting the desperate need for energy of the world's poorest countries does not have to contribute to global warming, experts said Monday at a conference sponsored by the World Bank. In a speech to the conference, Bank president Paul Wolfowitz bemoaned the fact that 1.6 billion people still have no access to the electricity grid.
Madrid (AFP) Mar 05, 2006 - More than 300 buildings in Madrid now run on energy extracted from olive cores, raising hopes that olives -- of which Spain is the world's largest producer -- will become an alternative source of cheap power. But ecologists have questioned the merits of the scheme.
Moscow, Russia (AFP) Mar 03, 2006 - Russian experts on Friday gave a green light for the planned route of an oil pipeline despite fears that it could pollute Lake Baikal, the world's single biggest source of fresh water, Itar-Tass new agency said. A commission created by Russia's federal environmental office approved the route which passes near the Siberian lake.
Wayland MA (SPX) Mar 02, 2006 - Filling mines with the residues of coal combustion is a viable way to dispose of these materials, provided they are placed so as to avoid adverse health and environmental effects, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies' National Research Council.
London UK (SPX) Mar 02, 2006 - Solar rather than nuclear energy should be the UK government's priority in planning future energy production, according to scientists writing today in the journal Nature Materials. Challenging advocates of the nuclear option, researchers from Imperial College London argue in their Commentary article that photovoltaics, the direct conversion of sunlight to electricity, could match and exceed the nuclear industry's current output before any new reactor could begin operating.
Providence RI (SPX) Mar 01, 2006 - By combining a common organic compound with a rare metal, a team of Brown University chemists has created a new class of molecules that have potentially important applications for the pharmaceutical, chemical and energy industries. To create the mixture, scientists working in the laboratory of Dwight Sweigart, a Brown professor of chemistry, combined two compounds.
