Moscow (UPI) Nov 18, 2005 - Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent visits to Germany, Turkey, and today South Korea, where he is attending the APEC forum, all have one over-riding theme: promoting the exports of state-owned and Kremlin-friendly energy companies.
Washington (UPI) Nov 17, 2005 - China and Japan are vying for energy supplies around the globe, but African resources are of particular interest to the two rivals.
Heslington, UK (SPX) Nov 16, 2005 - The University of York is to lead a new group set up to explore the potential of products from the biosphere to reduce the global economy's dependence on fossil reserves and oil.
Kansas City, MO (SPX) Nov 16, 2005 - The National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories will conduct a workshop in Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 15-16, designed to help gauge future energy and water concerns of water and electric utilities, environmental organizations, policy and regulatory groups, tribal groups, economic development organizations, government agencies, universities, research institutions, and others.
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 15, 2005 - It's hiding in your home, probably in a closet or dark corner of the basement. You depend on it daily, but don't give it much thought until you become too demanding and it lets you down. It's your water heater, and thanks to some space-age technology, someday soon it just might be obsolete.
Mexico City, Mexico (UPI) Nov 15, 2005 - With oil and gas prices hitting record highs, Mexico and Venezuela are vying for energy influence.
London (AFP) Nov 14, 2005 - Environmental pressure group Greenpeace dumped coal at British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Downing Street offices on Monday in a protest against his action on climate change, police said.
Brisbane, Australia (UPI) Nov 14, 2005 - Professor Jurg Keller at Australia's University of Queensland said he and his colleagues have discovered how to turn wastewater into electricity.
Stockholm (AFP) Nov 10, 2005 - Cities choking in petrol and diesel fumes should follow Sweden's example and look to ethanol to fuel their buses, experts at a conference in Stockholm on environmentally-friendly vehicles and fuels said on Thursday.
Winston-Salem NC (SPX) Nov 10, 2005 - At a time when oil prices are reaching record highs and people are bracing for winter heating bills, researchers at Wake Forest University's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have made significant strides in improving the efficiency of organic or flexible solar cells.
Stockholm (AFP) Nov 09, 2005 - As fuel consumption continues to rise around the world despite high oil prices and a growing fear of a shortage of the black gold, experts at an international conference in Stockholm said Wednesday that clean energy would soon be indispensable.
Antananarivo (AFP) Nov 09, 2005 - Farmers in Madagascar are going all out to produce an environmentally friendly fuel from a shrub they hope can be used to meet five percent of diesel needs within a couple of years, a local energy firm has announced.
Troy NY (SPX) Nov 09, 2005 - Echoes of a hydrogen economy are reverberating across the country, but a number of roadblocks stand in the way. One of the biggest, experts say, is the high cost of manufacturing fuel cells.
Stockholm (AFP) Nov 08, 2005 - A European conference on environmentally-friendly vehicles and fuels opened Tuesday in Sweden with the first day dedicated to the host country, seen at the forefront in the field of clean energy.
London (UPI) Nov 07, 2005 - The British government will reportedly soon require oil companies to blend a fixed proportion of biofuels into the gasoline and diesel fuel they produce.
Beijing (AFP) Nov 07, 2005 - China said Monday it would spend about 180 billion dollars over the next 15 years to increase its use of renewable energy to 15 percent of the total generated, from the current seven percent.
