London (AFP) May 30, 2005 - Work will start this year on Britain's first major power station fuelled by grass, a newspaper reported Monday as Prime Minister Tony Blair tries to make his country more environmentally friendly.
Tokyo (AFP) May 30, 2005 - Japan is setting two conditions to secure business at home before it will give up its bid to host a revolutionary nuclear energy project also sought by France, a news report said Monday.
Moscow (UPI) May 26, 2005 - Russia's atomic energy agency RosAtom announced Thursday plans to build the world's first floating nuclear power plant.
Dublin (AFP) May 26, 2005 - Ireland's Prime Minister Bertie Ahern opened the country's first offshore wind farm Thursday, off the east coast.
Washington (UPI) May 25, 2005 - Officials Wednesday began filling the U.S.-backed $3.6 billion Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline transporting Caspian crude to western markets. Leaders from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Turkey inaugurated the pipeline at the opening ceremony at an oil terminal near the Azeri capital of Baku.
Washington DC (SPX) May 17, 2005 - A new global wind power map has quantified global wind power and may help planners place turbines in locations that can maximize power from the winds and provide widely available low-cost energy.
Washington, (UPI) May 17, 2005 - Import-dependent nations are reacting to rising oil prices by attempting to secure energy supplies. But making deals with developing countries with little to offer international markets other than petroleum runs the risk of aiding militaristic regimes that use the profits for weapons rather than for people.
Houston TX (SPX) May 11, 2005 - Using some of the same manufacturing techniques that produce microchips, researchers have created a porous-silicon diode that may lead to improved betavoltaics.
Brussels (AFP) May 04, 2005 - The European Commission said Wednesday it was unaware of any change in plans for a revolutionary nuclear reactor despite new indications that Japan could give up its bid to host the project.
Denver CO (SPX) May 2, 2005 - Luca Technologies announced Thursday that its researchers have confirmed the presence of a resident, methane-generating community of microorganisms (microbial consortium) in substrate samples taken from the 110,000 acre Monument Butte oilfield located in North Eastern Utah.
Washington (UPI) April 28, 2005 - The Bush administration is stepping up efforts to meet the nation's growing energy needs amid spiraling oil prices, but some analysts are skeptical about how effective the proposals will be to address the problem.
University Park PA (SPX) Apr 28, 2005 - Using a new electrically-assisted microbial fuel cell (MFC) that does not require oxygen, Penn State environmental engineers and a scientist at Ion Power Inc. have developed the first process that enables bacteria to coax four times as much hydrogen directly out of biomass than can be generated typically by fermentation alone.
Washington (AFP) Apr 27, 2005 - President George W. Bush, wary of the political costs of sky-high US gas prices, called Wednesday for building new nuclear power plants and erecting new oil refineries on closed military bases.
Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Apr 27, 2005 - It's called the UltraCommuter - a clean, light, solar-electric concept car that will use 83 per cent less fuel and emit 87 per cent less greenhouse gases than a Holden Commodore.
Washington (UPI) April 26, 2005 - As a nation, the United States needs to be more honest about the costs and burden of being a superpower. Iraq is, after all, only one regional contingency and one where we did not face an opponent with anything like the capabilities of a North Korea or China.
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Apr 20, 2005 - Zhiyu Hu believes it is possible to match nature's highly efficient method to convert chemicals into thermal energy at room temperature, and he has data and a published paper to support his theory.
