News About Energy Technology 09-FEB-10 en-us Port Harcourt, Nigeria (UPI) Feb 4, 2009 - A 10-week-old leadership crisis that has paralyzed government lies behind a threat by southern rebels to not only resume their war against Africa's largest oil industry but expand it with an "all-out onslaught" in which "nothing will be spared."]]> Buenos Aires (UPI) Feb 5, 2009 - Argentina has warned oil companies operating in the Falklands Islands they will face legal action unless they stop prospecting in sovereign Argentine territory.]]> Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Feb 5, 2009 - In a daring move, former aides of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have signed a petition asking the populist leader to resign because of gross incompetence.]]> Baghdad (UPI) Feb 5, 2009 - The government seems set to clash with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries after declaring it will not participate in the cartel's production quota system as Iraq drives to quadruple its output.]]> Toronto, Canada (SPX) Feb 04, 2010 - A team of University of Toronto chemists have made a major contribution to the emerging field of quantum biology, observing quantum mechanics at work in photosynthesis in marine algae.]]> Richmond VA (SPX) Feb 04, 2010 - An international team of researchers has identified a new theoretical approach that may one day make the synthesis of hydrogen fuel storage materials less complicated and improve the thermodynamics and reversibility of the system.]]> Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Feb 04, 2010 - Neutron scattering experiments performed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory give strong evidence that, if superconductivity is related to a material's magnetic properties, the same mechanisms are behind both copper-based high-temperature superconductors and the newly discovered iron-based superconductors.]]> Seoul (AFP) Feb 4, 2010 - South Korea's STX Heavy Industries said Thursday it has signed an initial three billion dollar deal with Iraq to build a steel plant and gas-fired power station as part of post-war reconstruction. ]]> Seoul (UPI) Feb 3, 2009 - South Korea expects to increase alternative energy spending by 52 percent in 2010, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.]]> Baghdad (UPI) Feb 3, 2009 - Iraq looks set to play a key role in the Nabucco pipeline project that will carry natural gas 2,000 miles from the Caspian Sea basin through Turkey to Austria to feed energy-hungry Europe and break Russia's stranglehold.]]>