Oil and Gas
Easy aluminum nanoparticles for rapid, efficient hydrogen generation from water
Aluminum is a highly reactive metal that can strip oxygen from water molecules to generate hydrogen gas.
Energy News
Australia’s largest power firm rejects green takeover bid
Australia's largest energy firm and biggest carbon emitter AGL on Monday rejected a takeover bid from green-minded tech billionaire Mike Cannon Brookes, who planned to shutter the firm's coal-fired power plants.
Bio Fuel
Scientists use green solvent and natural pigment to produce bioplastic
Scientists based in Brazil and Portugal have developed an environmentally sustainable process to produce biodegradable plastic using pigment extracted from yeast by "green" solvents.
Oil and Gas
NATO, EU chiefs vow ‘high costs’ for Russia if it acts against Ukraine
The heads of NATO and the European Union underlined Friday that Russia would be dealt severe punishment if it took further military action against Ukraine.
Oil and Gas
A range of environmental contaminants in fracking wastewater
As companies that drill for oil and natural gas using hydraulic fracturing consider recycling and reusing wastewater that surfaces from wells during the…
Oil and Gas
India aims to be green hydrogen hub
India has unveiled the first part of a drive to attempt to turn the world's third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases into a "hub" for green hydrogen.
Oil and Gas
Dissolving oil in a sunlit sea
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest marine oil spill in United States history.
Oil and Gas
Iraqis queue for petrol in Mosul amid shortages
Motorists in Iraq's main northern city of Mosul queued for hours on Friday to fill up their cars with petrol, with authorities blaming shortages on smuggling to the nearby Kurdistan region.
Oil and Gas
Making Hydrogen fuel anywhere: ONR tests prototype to power Marines in expeditionary environments
U.S. Marines often operate in extremely harsh environments - including remote islands, hot deserts, rugged mountains and frozen, barren landscapes.
Bio Fuel
Breakthrough in converting CO2 into fuel using solar energy
A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has shown how solar power can convert carbon dioxide into fuel, by using advanced materials and ultra-fast laser spectroscopy.
Energy Tech
Scientists discover new electrolyte for solid-state lithium-ion batteries
New battery material offers promise for the development of all-solid batteries.
Energy Tech
Can the Salton Sea geothermal field prevent the coming lithium shortage?
University of California, Riverside scientists will join a first-of-its-kind effort to map out California's so-called "Lithium Valley," and…
Energy Tech
Quantifying California’s lithium valley: can it power our EV revolution?
The Salton Sea geothermal field in California potentially holds enough lithium to meet all of America's domestic battery needs, with even enough left over to export some of it.
Bio Fuel
Accelerated ammonia synthesis holds promise for conversion of renewable energy
Research by Japanese scientists at Hiroshima University reveals a way to make ammonia from its constituent molecules of nitrogen and hydrogen at ambient pressure.
Bio Fuel
At bioenergy crossroads, should corn ethanol be left in the rearview mirror?
Transportation is responsible for a larger share of greenhouse gas emissions than any other sector of the U.S.
Oil and Gas
Kuwait’s interior and defence ministers resign
Kuwait said Thursday the interior and defence ministers had resigned, after they protested the manner of parliamentary questioning of ministers in the oil-rich Gulf emirate.