Bio Fuel
Turning trash into valuable chemical products and clean fuels
Anyone who has ever hesitated in front of a trash bin knows the problem: It's hard to determine what can be recycled.
Bio Fuel
Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops
Large perennial grasses like miscanthus are a primary target for use as bioenergy crops because of their sustainability advantages, but they take several years to establish and aren't ideal for crop rotation.
Oil and Gas
Researchers take key step toward cleaner, more sustainable production of hydrogen
Efficiently mass-producing hydrogen from water is closer to becoming a reality thanks to Oregon State University College of Engineering researchers and collaborators at Cornell University and the Argonne National Laboratory.
Energy Tech
Transition metal ‘cocktail’ helps make brand new superconductors
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University mixed and designed a new, high entropy alloy (HEA) superconductor, using extensive data on simple superconducting substances with a specific crystal structure.
Oil and Gas
Second Australian charged over Iraqi oil bribes scandal
Australian police on Monday charged a man in connection with allegations a Sydney-based firm paid US$78 million in bribes to secure lucrative Iraqi oil contracts.
Oil and Gas
Top global oil exporter Saudi Arabia launches car-free city
Saudi Arabia, the world's top crude exporter, announced Sunday the launch of an eco-city "with zero cars, zero streets and zero carbon emissions" at its futuristic NEOM mega development.
Oil and Gas
Venezuela’s new taxi drivers: moonlighting soldiers
In crisis-hit Venezuela, even soldiers are struggling to make ends meet on meager salaries rendered practically worthless by the highest inflation in the world and have taken to moonlighting -- as taxi drivers.
Oil and Gas
US leases long-sought Alaska oil rights in Trump’s final days
US President Donald Trump's administration auctioned off 11 oil leases in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge on Wednesday, in a last-ditch move to expand drilling in the areas coveted by some petroleum producers before he leaves office.
Energy News
China to launch carbon emissions trading scheme next month
China's delayed carbon trading system will start operating in February, the environment ministry has said, as the world's biggest polluter takes…
Oil and Gas
Iran steps up nuclear programme, holds South Korean tanker
Iran said Tuesday it had stepped up its uranium enrichment at a time of heightened tensions with the United States and after it seized a South Korean tanker in strategic Gulf waters.
Energy Tech
First glimpse of polarons forming in a promising next-gen energy material
Polarons are fleeting distortions in a material's atomic lattice that form around a moving electron in a few trillionths of a second, then quickly disappear.
Energy Tech
Supercapacitors challenge batteries
A team working with Roland Fischer, Professor of Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry at the Technical University Munich (TUM) has developed a highly efficient supercapacitor.
Energy News
Dozens of nations miss deadline to boost climate ambition
More than half the world's nations failed to submit upgraded commitments by year's end to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, straggling behind the schedule of accelerated climate ambitions set out in the Paris Agreement.
Oil and Gas
Gas pressure depletion and seismicity
USA: Europe's largest gas field, the Groningen field in the Netherlands, is widely known for induced subsidence and seismicity caused by gas pressure depletion and associated compaction of the sandstone reservoir.
Oil and Gas
US extends Iraq sanctions waiver for further 3 months
The US has granted Iraq a three-month extension to a sanctions waiver allowing it to import Iranian gas, an Iraqi official told AFP Monday.
Oil and Gas
US aircraft carrier to stay in Gulf: Pentagon
The US reversed a decision to bring an aircraft carrier home from the Gulf Sunday, with the Pentagon saying that due to "recent threats" by Iran the USS Nimitz would stay in position.