Washington (UPI) Sep 20, 2018 - Crude oil prices moved in opposite directions Thursday morning as Brent was trending down and WTI trending up, both for different reasons.
Oslo, Norway (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 - Should you care that scientists can control a baffling current? Their research results could someday affect your daily living. Physicists have managed to send and control a spin current across
Dresden, Germany (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 - When light pulses from an extremely powerful laser system are fired onto material samples, the electric field of the light rips the electrons off the atomic nuclei. For fractions of a second, a plas
Stanford, Canada (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 - In February 2018, Donald Trump signed into law new tax credits that reward oil companies for capturing carbon dioxide and preventing it from entering the atmosphere - either by burying the gas under
Washington (UPI) Sep 19, 2018 - U.S. crude oil exports have been temporarily spared from Chinese tariffs, giving state-run oil refineries a short window to import as much as possible.
Washington (UPI) Sep 18, 2018 - Hurricane Florence had little effect on gasoline prices because the storm didn't go near refineries or other energy infrastructure. The Carolinas and surrounding states also had an abundant supply of gasoline, analysts report, explaining the lack of a spike in prices.
Washington (UPI) Sep 17, 2018 - The United States needs to increase its natural gas exports to Europe to counter Russia's increasing energy dominance in the region, a top Trump administration official warned.
Washington (UPI) Sep 14, 2018 - New pipeline infrastructure can't get built fast enough in the Permian Basin, where oil is selling at a $15 discount and producers are locking in prices for the next two years.
Washington (UPI) Sep 13, 2018 - The large-scale evacuations ahead of Hurricane Florence will cause local gasoline shortages and price spikes if tankers can't reach them fast enough, analysts say. But there are no concerns about refineries or other energy infrastructure like there was when Hurricane Harvey hit Houston last year.
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 13, 2018 - In the search for abundant clean energy, scientists around the globe look to fusion power, where isotopes of hydrogen combine to form a larger particle, helium, and release large amounts of energy i
Birmingham UK (SPX) Sep 13, 2018 - University of Birmingham scientists are paving the way to swap the lithium in lithium-ion batteries with sodium, according to research published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Sep 12, 2018 - Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources. Firstly, lowering the cost of developing microbial
Washington (UPI) Sep 12, 2018 - The European Union wants to double its use of renewable energy by 2030. To meet the target, the European Union's Renewable Energy Directive has designated wood as a low-carbon fuel source.
Princeton NJ (SPX) Sep 11, 2018 - Fusion, the power that drives the sun and stars, produces massive amounts of energy. Scientists here on Earth seek to replicate this process, which merges light elements in the form of hot, charged
Washington (UPI) Sep 10, 2018 - According to the World Meteorological Organization, there's a 70 percent of an El Niño weather event developing before the end of the year.
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Sep 10, 2018 - Fuel cells hold promise as a clean, renewable source of energy. But keeping them dry has long been a challenge, as they produce water during the process of converting hydrogen and oxygen into electr
