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Cashing in on cutting carbon at home Chicago (AFP) March 18, 2010 
Can the promise of a free cupcake or some cold hard cash work better than dire predictions of dying polar bears and rising sea levels at getting people to cut their carbon footprint?
Two US-based startup companies certainly hope so.
Energy brokers in White Plaines, New York have launched what they hope will be a global exchange platform for selling carbon offset credits based on cutting ... read moreMastery Of Rare-Earth Elements Vital To American Security 
Ames IA (SPX) Mar 17, 2010Karl A. Gschneidner Jr., a senior metallurgist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, has cautioned members of a Congressional panel that "rare-earth research in the USA on mineral extraction, rare-earth separation, processing of the oxides into metallic alloys and other useful forms, substitution, and recycling is virtually zero." Rare-earth elements are critical components i ... more
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Prisoners used to shovel snow-bound US capital
Heavy rain, snow disrupts transport in Spain Washington slaps fee on plastic shopping bags Vietnam says parched Red River at record low Philippine volcano darkens New Year for 50,000 villagers Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax Thrill-seeking tourists flock to Philippine volcano 
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Chile eyes power grid instability after quake
Santiago (AFP) March 15, 2010Chile's power grid should be fragile for six months, on the heels of the massive February 27 earthquake, President Sebastian Pinera warned Monday hours after a blackout that plunged most Chileans into the dark. A vast area of earthquake-hit Chile, including the capital city of Santiago, was hit Sunday by a massive blackout, the National Emergency Office said. The area without power cover ... more TU Delft Improves Production Of Chemicals From Wood Waste 
Delft, Netherlands (SPX) Mar 15, 2010Researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have succeeded in making a significant leap forward in the production of biochemicals and biofuels from waste wood. They discovered that the bacterium Cupriavidus basilensis breaks down harmful by-products which are produced when sugars are released from wood. They also managed to incorporate the degradation process in bact ... more China's Cnooc buys into Argentinian energy company 
Hong Kong (AFP) March 14, 2010China's state-owned energy giant Cnooc said Sunday it would pay 3.1 billion US dollars for a 50-percent stake in an Argentinian-owned energy company, the latest in a string of acquisitions. Cnooc said the deal, which must still be approved by regulators whom it did not identify, would see it strike a joint venture agreement for a stake in Bridas Corp. with the South American company's parent ... more A Natural Way To Deal With A Greenhouse Gas 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Mar 11, 2010A recent discovery in understanding how to chemically break down the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into a useful form opens the doors for scientists to wonder what organism is out there - or could be created - to accomplish the task. University of Michigan biological chemist Steve Ragsdale, along with research assistant Elizabeth Pierce and scientists led by Fraser Armstrong from the Unive ... more |
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Blackouts in Philippine capital
Manila (AFP) March 1, 2010Parts of the Philippine capital suffered blackouts on Monday, officials said, as a drought-induced power crisis deepened across the impoverished Southeast Asian nation. The Manila Electric Company, which serves the city's 12 million residents, said it was forced to implement two-hour rotating power outages across the capital and neighbouring provinces to help address an energy shortfall. ... more Ohio Advanced Transportation Partnership Brings Millions 
Columbus OH (SPX) Feb 25, 2010One year after the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has cleared Clean Fuels Ohio to begin its work with the Ohio Advanced Transportation Partnership (OATP) to carry out over $29 million in alternative fuel vehicle and infrastructure projects. The DOE awarded $11 million in ARRA funding to Clean Fuels Ohio through the its Clean ... more Member-Owned Electric Co-op Practices Examined 
Atlanta, GA (SPX) Feb 22, 2010Why are electric rates higher for customers of Cobb County, Georgia's electric membership corporation (EMC) than for other utility customers? That's only one of the questions Cobb and other EMC members hope to find answers to as the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) gathers in Atlanta this week for its annual meeting. America's electric co-ops were founded in the 1930s as m ... more India: no electricity prompts fire ritual 
New Delhi (UPI) Feb 15, 2009 Villagers of Kanugaon in northeast India marked 25 years without electricity Sunday with a mock Hindu fire ritual to call attention to their life in darkness. Utility poles to light up the village were delivered in 1985, yet the residents of Kanugaon in the Assam state still have no access to electricity, CNN reports. "All our petitions with the authorities have gone in vain," sa ... more |
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