New Delhi (UPI) Feb 08, 2006 - India's new business-friendly oil minister, Murli Deora, is unlikely to make any drastic changes to the country's energy policy, Indian energy analysts said Wednesday.
Rio De Janeiro (UPI) Feb 06, 2006 - Brazilian officials are jockeying for funding to increase the country's production of ethanol, a leading bio-fuel that is cleaner burning that petroleum.
Austin TX (SPX) Feb 06, 2006 - A team of engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and RTI International developed new polymer membranes for producing hydrogen that brings an energy-efficient, low-cost hydrogen purification process a step closer to reality, an important stride toward making hydrogen a viable energy alternative.
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2006 - While studying a compound made of the elements cerium- rhodium-indium, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have discovered that a magnetic state can coexist with superconductivity in a specific temperature and pressure range.
Beijing, China (AFP) Feb 06, 2006 - China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric power project, will be completed in May this year, nine months ahead of schedule, state media reported Monday.
Austin TX (SPX) Feb 03, 2006 - A rubbery material that can purify hydrogen efficiently in its most usable form for fuel cells and oil refining has been developed by a chemical engineering group at The University of Texas at Austin.
Atlanta GA (SPX) Feb 02, 2006 - With world oil demand growing, supplies dwindling and the potential for weather- and conflict-related supply interruptions, other types of fuels and technologies are needed to help pick up the slack.
Washington (AFP) Feb 01, 2006 - US President George W. Bush has vowed his country will slash imports of Middle East oil by 2025 but has given only a vague outline of how he will change the gas-guzzling habits of Americans.
Beijing (UPI) Jan 31, 2006 - China National Offshore Oil Corp., the country's largest offshore oil producer, completed infrastructure work at a disputed oil and gas field in the East China Sea.
Moscow (AFP) Jan 30, 2006 - State-sponsored Russian environmental experts warning that a planned oil pipeline could pollute the pristine Lake Baikal in Siberia complained Monday of colossal state pressure to drop their objections.
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2006 - Putting ethanol instead of gasoline in your tank saves oil and is probably no worse for the environment than burning gasoline, according to a new analysis by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
Lisbon (AFP) Jan 24, 2006 - The Portuguese government has postponed the deadline for international bids for new wind farm permits to March 1 from January 30, the Lusa news agency reported Tuesday.
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jan 23, 2006 - A variety of technological advances being developed by CSIRO can dramatically reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, according to CSIRO's Chief of Energy Technology, Dr David Brockway.
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Jan 18, 2006 - As part of the Department of Energy-funded FreedomCAR program, Sandia National Laboratories' Power Sources Technology Group is researching ways to make lithium-ion batteries work longer and safer. The research could lead to these batteries being used in new hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) in the next five to ten years.
London (AFP) Jan 17, 2006 - A British man and his Australian wife set off Tuesday from London in a bid to drive round the world by filling up on petrol less than 50 times in a bid to promote fuel efficiency.
Washington (UPI) Jan 17, 2006 - Oil prices are likely to continue to rise amid nuclear tensions with Iran and political instability in Nigeria, experts say.
