Troy NY (SPX) Dec 07, 2005 - Imagine heat radiating from the walls of your home on a cold winter night, or the glass in your home's windows emitting cool temperatures on a scorching summer afternoon. Now imagine these systems operating on an endless supply of affordable energy - the sun.
Washington (UPI) Dec 04, 2005 - Some industry experts argue new technologies can maximize oil usage with the discovery of more oil fields and extract more oil from current and future fields, while others debate the feasibility of technology saving peak oil.
Robins Air Force Base GA (SPX) Dec 03, 2005 - Robins Air Force Base officially welcomed an alternative fuel technology Dec. 1 that could save the Air Force thousands of dollars in energy costs.
Rockville MD (SPX) Dec 03, 2005 - Take a pot of scalding water, remove all the oxygen, mix in a bit of poisonous carbon monoxide, and add a pinch of hydrogen gas. It sounds like a recipe for a witch's brew. It may be, but it is also the preferred environment for a microbe known as Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans.
Oslo (AFP) Nov 30, 2005 - Norway's government said on Wednesday it had agreed to work with Britain in developing a system for injecting carbon dioxide emitted on land into oil fields under the ocean floor in the North Sea.
Ottawa ON (SPX) Nov 28, 2005 - Made-in-Canada technology is contributing to the global solution to climate change, with the help of the Government of Canada.
Moscow (AFP) Nov 28, 2005 - Russian environment ministry experts have given the green light for the building of an oil pipeline linking Siberia with the Pacific Ocean, the Itar-Tass news agency reported Monday.
Paris (AFP) Nov 27, 2005 - Rapidly rising pollution by the aviation industry, which is not covered by targets in the Kyoto protocol to combat global warming, could be slashed through inclusion in the EU carbon market, an International Energy Agency report suggests.
London (AFP) Nov 27, 2005 - Britain is facing an energy timebomb if it fails to come up with a strategy to tackle its future sources of energy, weekly financial newspaper The Business reported Sunday.
Moscow (UPI) Nov 26, 2005 - Russia may account for less than 1 percent of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation region trade, but it is the country that will fuel the economic growth of many of its Pacific Rim neighbors.
Riyadh (AFP) Nov 26, 2005 - Oil giant Saudi Arabia said Saturday that global oil inventories were at very comfortable levels with supply exceeding demand, but was non-committal on what OPEC would do at its next meeting in December.
Hohhot (XNA) Nov 23, 2005 - Chichige, a 26-year-old woman of the Mongolia ethnic group, has never left her home town on pastures in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, north China. Butthis does not kept her away from pursuing a stylish life.
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 23, 2005 - SatCon Technology announced Tuesday that its SatCon Applied Technology division has been awarded a contract with General Atomics (GA) to join the GA team that will develop a new modular 40 megawatt power converter that will power and control a full-scale superconducting DC Homopolar Motor (HPM).
Seattle WA (SPX) Nov 22, 2005 - Permanent magnets are important in a broad variety of commercial technologies, from car starters to alternators for wind power generation, to computer hard drives. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found new clues into ways to make those magnets longer-lasting and more powerful.
Flint MI (SPX) Nov 21, 2005 - Using building blocks that make up ordinary plastics, but putting them together in a whole new way, University of Michigan researchers have created a class of lightweight, rigid polymers they predict will be useful for storing hydrogen fuel.
Abuja, Nigeria (UPI) Nov 21, 2005 - Nigeria's High Court ruled last week that gas flaring is illegal. The move might ensure compliance but force Nigeria to shut down all oil production, which could increase political tensions in the country's volatile Niger Delta.
