Pohang, South Korea (SPX) Feb 07, 2020 - Static electricity shock which occurs more often in winter is unpleasant. When two different objects are in repeated contact, it causes friction which then creates static electricity. This c
Oslo (AFP) Feb 6, 2020 - Norwegian oil giant Equinor unveiled Thursday objectives to reduce its climate impact but the plans disappointed environmental activists.
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 06, 2020 - Air monitoring data analyzed by scientists with the Environmental Integrity Project suggests at least 10 oil refineries in the United States have been emitting benzene at levels above EPA limits, so called EPA action levels.
Orlando FL (UPI) Feb 05, 2020 - U.S. cruise ships have started to switch to cleaner burning liquefied natural gas, starting with a new vessel due at Florida's Port Canaveral in November. The use of LNG in cruise ships will s
Moscow (AFP) Feb 5, 2020 - Russian oil giant Rosneft on Wednesday announced a deal to supply up to two million tonnes of oil to India this year, adding that Delhi planned to invest in its Arctic projects.
London (AFP) Feb 5, 2020 - British police arrested nine Greenpeace campaigners on Wednesday who blockaded BP's London headquarters with solar panels and oil barrels to mark the new boss's first day at the energy giant.
Baghdad (AFP) Feb 5, 2020 - A dispute between companies transporting liquefied petroleum gas across Iraq's northern Kurdish region has escalated into armed attacks and skyrocketing gas prices, government and industry sources said Wednesday.
Orlando, FL (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 - Biofuels offer potential benefits as renewable fuels with cleaner emissions, but with thousands of types of biofuels to choose from, it makes it hard for the energy sector to focus on just a few for
Hamilton, Canada (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 - Vast amounts of valuable energy, agricultural nutrients, and water could potentially be recovered from the world's fast-rising volume of municipal wastewater, according to a new study by UN Universi
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 - New research by engineers at MIT and elsewhere could lead to batteries that can pack more power per pound and last longer, based on the long-sought goal of using pure lithium metal as one of the bat
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 - An international team of researchers has discovered the hydrogen atoms in a metal hydride material are much more tightly spaced than had been predicted for decades - a feature that could possibly fa
Ottawa (AFP) Feb 4, 2020 - Canada's federal court on Tuesday denied a bid by indigenous tribes to block a long-delayed expansion of an oil pipeline, dismissing their claim that they had not been adequately consulted on the project.
Paris (AFP) Feb 4, 2020 - Europe is set to spend more than 100 billion euros on unnecessary natural gas infrastructure, boosting its import capacity by a third and imperilling the continent's climate goals, new analysis showed Tuesday.
Upton NY (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 - When there are several processes going on at once, establishing cause-and-effect relationships is difficult. This scenario holds true for a class of high-temperature superconductors known as the cup
Baghdad (AFP) Feb 4, 2020 - OPEC members and their ally Russia are discussing a further cut to crude oil output at a meeting in Vienna because of China's coronavirus epidemic, Iraq's oil ministry said Tuesday.
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 - Most modern electronic devices rely on tiny, finely-tuned electrical currents to process and store information. These currents dictate how fast our computers run, how regularly our pacemakers tick a
