Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Dec 10, 2004 - Electrical grids worldwide face unprecedented challenges. Traditional sources of fuel for electricity generation are rising rapidly in price at a time when industrialization in China, India and elsewhere is pushing up the demand for electricity.
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 8, 2004 - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson wants his state to become a leader in the new era of wind power with a plan to hopefully market the power to other Western states.
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Dec 08, 2004 - Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory and Ceramatec of Salt Lake City are reporting a significant development in their efforts to help the nation advance toward a clean hydrogen economy.
Cambridge MA (SPX) Dec 07, 2004 - MIT and Columbia University students and researchers have begun operation of a novel experiment that confines high-temperature ionized gas, called plasma, using the strong magnetic fields from a half-ton superconducting ring inside a huge vessel reminiscent of a spaceship.
Paris (AFP) Dec 05, 2004 - Europe is becoming more and more dependent on Russian energy supplies, making it vulnerable to high prices that help Moscow reach growth and investment objectives, IEA executives say.
Singapore (UPI) Nov 25, 2004 - Over the last three weeks, oil prices have fallen a dollar or two as a sign of a falling demand which started around July have become clearer. Yet the worst is not behind as any poor winter conditions could send prices rising back again.
Atlanta GA (SPX) Nov 24, 2004 - It may be tiny, but a new microgenerator developed at Georgia Tech can now produce enough power to run a small electronic device, like a cell phone, and may soon be able to power a laptop.
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 23, 2004 - When Marc Thiercelin set out on the Vendee Globe, one of the world's toughest sailing races, earlier this month, novel space technologies were used to give his six-year-old boat a 'spacelift'. Lighter batteries, more efficient solar cells and an intelligent energy management system cut critical weight and optimised vital electricity systems. All three were originally developed for Europe's space programmes.
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 19, 2004 - The Japanese government is set to offer technological support in nuclear plant engineering to the United States in a bid to expand Japanese nuclear technology exports, a news report said Friday.
Denver CO (SPX) Nov 17, 2004 - Researchers at Luca Technologies have made a discovery regarding natural gas production in Wyoming's Powder River Basin that could lead to a renewable source of energy for generations to come.
Toronto ON (SPX) Nov 16, 2004 - Hydrogenics Corporation has sold a light weight 5kW hydrogen/oxygen Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack to the NASA Glenn Research Center, which will use it in an experimental closed cycle hydrogen-oxygen regenerative fuel cell.
Paris (ESA) Nov 16, 2004 - When the non-profit organisation IdeeVerte Competition decided to create a 'green' racing car, they turned to space technology to make it safer. Running on liquefied petroleum gas, one of the least polluting fuels, and lubricated with sunflower oil, the car is protected against fire hazards by space materials. 'Green' does not have to mean slow - last week the car set a new speed record of 315 km/h.
London (AFP) Nov 14, 2004 - Trading in quotas of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, to officially begin on the world's first carbon market in the new year, promises to be lucrative for a number of financial institutions, experts say.
University Park PA (SPX) Nov 12, 2004 - The existence of a new electronic state in superconductors, materials that can carry an electric current without resistance, has been confirmed experimentally according to research to be published in the 12 November 2004 issue of the journal Science by a team led by Ying Liu, associate professor of physics at Penn State.
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Nov 11, 2004 - The National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories is joining forces with Stirling Energy Systems (SES) of Phoenix to build and test six new solar dish-engine systems for electricity generation that will provide enough grid-ready solar electricity to power more than 40 homes.
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Nov 11, 2004 - Peering into the center of Sandia National Laboratory's Z machine as it fires had been a feat unachievable for a decade. Other than a nuclear bomb, Z is the most powerful generator of X-rays on the planet. Last year, its central mechanism, called a Z-pinch, fused isotopes of hydrogen to create nuclear fusion.
