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Better Way To Harness Waste Heat Cambridge MA (SPX) Nov 20, 2009 
New MIT research points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest much of the wasted heat produced by everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, and turn it into usable electricity. More than half of the energy consumed worldwide is wasted, most of it in the form of excess heat. This new technology would allow conversion of waste ... read moreFrom blood to oil, the curse of a Sudanese village 
Rier, Sudan (AFP) Nov 19, 2009Visitors to Rier, in southern Sudan, are welcomed by a large rectangular tank and a freshly-painted sign trumpeting the White Nile Petroleum Operating Company's initiative to supply drinking water. But the inhabitants of this festering clutter of tumbledown straw huts and rubbish now complain that the promise of peace and progress has not been realised and that oil exploitation only poisoned ... more
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Nigeria's oil war truce 'in danger'
Port Harcourt, Nigeria (UPI) Nov 18, 2009 A cease-fire in Nigeria's oil war appeared to be under threat Wednesday after army soldiers destroyed the home of one of their commanders. But to some observers, the episode was part of a bizarre pre-election ritual. There was no word of any immediate retaliation by the rebels of the militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta. It declared an indefinite cease-fire Oct. 25 ... more US moves to stop coal 'overburden' dumping into waterways 
Washington (AFP) Nov 18, 2009The US government took the first steps Wednesday to reverse a last-minute rule passed by the Bush administration which allowed coal mine operators to dump excavated material into streams. The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) announced "an advance notice of rulemaking that would govern the overall operations and conduct of where to place excess oil from mountaintop ... more Dutch approve project to store CO2 underground 
The Hague (AFP) Nov 18, 2009The Dutch government said Wednesday it had approved the experimental below-ground storage of excess CO2 to curb damaging emissions, dismissing concerns of residents who live on top of the project. The test project would kick off from 2012 with CO2 stored in a spent natural gas field with a capacity of 0.8 megatonnes underneath the eastern town of Barendrecht, a government statement said. ... more Iraq wants France's Total to work in its oilfields: Talabani 
Paris (AFP) Nov 18, 2009Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told business leaders in Paris that he wanted to see the French energy giant Total working in his country's oil fields. "We might favour a French bid whatever the figures. Don't fear this auction. ... The figures aren't everything," he said during a state visit to France. "We want to see Total work in our oil fields." A senior Total executive confirmed that ... more |
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Climate: Hopes pinned on US emissions offer at Copenhagen
Paris (AFP) Nov 17, 2009With less than three weeks left before the UN climate showdown in Copenhagen, hopes are pinned on the United States, which is keeping everyone guessing on when -- or if -- it will declare its hand. A US-China summit and ministerial-level talks among 44 countries placed the spotlight Tuesday on prospects for a US offer able to end the deadlock threatening the December 7-18 talks. ... more China to become global leader in green tech: campaigners 
Singapore (AFP) Nov 14, 2009China can become the world's top exporter of "green technology" if it carries out crucial energy and ecological reforms, leading environmental campaigners said here Saturday. "For China, I am absolutely convinced that it will become the world leader in green tech," Tim Flannery, chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, told a business forum on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit. ... more Canada's tar sands are the future of oil production: Total 
Montreal (AFP) Nov 12, 2009The era of oil gushing from ground wells is over and can only be replaced by costly and complex refining of deposits such as Canada's oil sands to satisfy rising global energy needs, said a senior oil executive. Pressed about the high cost of oil sands extraction and attacks by environmentalists worried about its contribution to global warming, Jean-Michel Gires, president of French-based ... more Safe CO2 Storage For Greener Power Generation 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 12, 2009The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to fund research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Engineering on technologies that would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the capture and permanent safe storage, or sequestration, of carbon dioxide (CO2). The project is in collaboration with Southern Company, the parent company of Alabama Power. ... more |
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