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Climate Change A Challenge For Oil And Gas Companies London UK (SPX) Apr 27, 2007 
Oil and gas companies are one of the major emitters, if not the major emitter, of carbon in the world today. With climate change now the greatest environmental challenge, it has become imperative to reduce carbon emissions dramatically in the future. Therefore, oil and gas companies are facing one of the biggest upheavals they have ever experienced, with renewable energy gaining key importance in their market strategies. Frost and Sullivan has recently created Green Energy, a new division within its Energy department that will focus on the green energy industry ... read more
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Xantrex Announces Partnerships For Solar America Initiative
Livermove CA (SPX) Apr 27, 2007Xantrex Technology has been selected to develop next generation solar inverters to support the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Solar America Initiative. In March the DOE announced the selection and future funding of 13 solar technology development projects. Xantrex is partnered with consortiums in four of those projects. As part of President Bush's Advanced Energy Initiative, the DOE's S ... more US Senate Okays Bill On Legal Action Against Gas Cartel 
Washington (RIA Novosti) Apr 27, 2007The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee passed Wednesday a bill permitting legal action against foreign states for oil and gas price fixing and other uncompetitive activities. The idea of an OPEC-style gas cartel was proposed in January by Iran, the world's second largest gas producer after Russia. President Vladimir Putin has backed the idea, although some Russian officials question the initi ... more Researchers Look Into Plant Cells To Increase Ethanol Yields 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Apr 27, 2007Researchers have discovered that particles from cornstalks undergo previously unknown structural changes when processed to produce ethanol, an insight they said will help establish a viable method for large-scale production of ethanol from plant matter. Their research demonstrates that pretreating corn plant tissue with hot water - an accepted practice that increases ethanol yields 3 to 4 ... more Germany Wants To Become World Leader In Energy Efficiency 
Berlin (AFP) April 26, 2007Germany on Thursday unveiled proposals to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 40 percent within 13 years and become the most energy-efficient country in the world. Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel called for additional investment of three billion euros (four billion dollars) to develop energy-saving technologies and said emissions permits for industry could be auctioned off rather than bein ... more Nanocomposite Processing Technique Improves Capacitors 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Apr 27, 2007A new technique for creating films of barium titanate (BaTiO3) nanoparticles in a polymer matrix could allow fabrication of improved capacitors able to store twice as much energy as existing devices. The improved capacitors could be used in consumer devices such as cellular telephones - and in defense applications requiring both high energy storage and rapid current discharge. Becaus ... more |
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Rapid-Fire Pulse Brings Sandia Z Method Closer To Goal Of High-Yield Fusion Reactor
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Apr 26, 2007An electrical circuit that should carry enough power to produce the long-sought goal of controlled high-yield nuclear fusion and, equally important, do it every 10 seconds, has undergone extensive preliminary experiments and computer simulations at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine facility. Z, when it fires, is already the largest producer of X-rays on Earth and has been used to pro ... read more New Transmission Needed To Support Growing Texas Wind Generation Capacity 
Austin TX (SPX) Apr 26, 2007Every dollar spent for construction of new transmission lines to support the development of wind resources in Texas will result in a $5 to $7 reduction in energy costs, according to testimony filed Tuesday with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) by Electric Transmission Texas, a proposed joint venture between subsidiaries of American Electric Power and MidAmerican Energy Holdings. ... more NAEG Reports Breakthrough For Its Wind And Solar Projects 
Forest Hills NY (SPX) Apr 26, 2007Native American Energy Group reported Monday that the newly proposed construction of a 203-mile-long transmission line tying Alberta into the U.S. power grid in Montana may be the solution that allows NAEG to tap the potential for wind and solar generation in Montana. One of Native American Energy Group's near-term goals is to begin joint- venturing renewable energy projects on several Ind ... more EU Warns Russia Against Using Energy For Political Purposes 
Vilnius (RIA Novosti) Apr 26, 2007EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs and European MPs have urged Russia to abandon using energy as a political weapon and resume oil supplies to Lithuania. They adopted a joint statement saying that Russia and the EU are mutually dependent on energy, and that the majority of problems arise from political disagreements. Piebalgs told MPs in Strasbourg he intended to pressure Russia into r ... more Ethiopia Seeks Seized Chinese Oil Workers As Toll Rises 
Addis Ababa (AFP) Apr 25, 2007Ethiopia searched for up to seven seized Chinese oil workers Wednesday after an attack on a Chinese-run oil venture which killed 77 people, according to a new toll. Ethiopia sent an investigation team to the Ogaden oil prospection site in a remote eastern region, while a local leader added three more Ethiopians to the death toll, which includes nine Chinese. The Ogaden National Liber ... more Ethiopia Says Eritrea Behind Chinese Oil Facility Bloodbath 
Addis Ababa (AFP) Apr 25, 2007Ethiopia on Wednesday accused arch-foe Eritrea of supporting the rebels who attacked a remote Chinese-run oil venture that killed 74 people, and abducted up to seven Chinese workers. Eritrea immediately denied the claim -- the latest in a string of accusations and counter-accusations between the rival neighbours. "The perpetrator of the terrorist attack ... is the self-styled Ogaden Nation ... more |
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New Family Of Pseudo-Metallic Chemicals Could Create New Electronic Materials
Columbia, MO (SPX) Apr 25, 2007The periodic table of elements, all 111 of them, just got a little competition. A new discovery by a University of Missouri-Columbia research team, published in Angewandte Chemie, the journal of the German Society of Chemists, allows scientists to manipulate a molecule discovered 50 years ago in such as way as to give the molecule metal-like properties, creating a new, "pseudo" element. The pseu ... more New Model Describes Avalanche Behavior Of Superfluid Helium 
Champaign IL (SPX) Apr 25, 2007By utilizing ideas developed in disparate fields, from earthquake dynamics to random-field magnets, researchers at the University of Illinois have constructed a model that describes the avalanche-like, phase-slip cascades in the superflow of helium. Just as superconductors have no electrical resistance, superfluids have no viscosity, and can flow freely. Like superconductors, which can be ... more Revamped Experiment Could Detect Elusive Particle 
Gainesville, FL (SPX) Apr 25, 2007An experiment called "shining light through walls" would seem hard to improve upon. But University of Florida physicists have proposed a way to do just that, a step they say considerably improves the chance of detecting one of the universe's most elusive particles, a candidate for the common but mysterious dark matter. In a paper that appears online today in the journal Physical Review Let ... more Kazakhstan Studying Caspian-Europe Pipe To Bypass Russia 
Astana (RIA Novosti) Apr 25, 2007Kazakhstan's government could join a proposed gas pipeline linking the energy-rich Caspian to Europe, bypassing Russia, if the project meets the country's economic interests, the premier said. The $6-billion pipeline project is an extension of the South Caucasus pipeline, linking Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, and is expected to run from Turkey to Austria via Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungar ... more Gazprom Steps On The Gas 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 25, 2007PricewaterhouseCoopers analysts forecast that in 2010, one-third of natural gas traded in the world will be liquefied. Meanwhile, Gazprom, a Russian monopoly with ambitions to be a global energy producer, is suffering from a bad shortage of liquefied natural gas (LNG) production and export facilities. The feeling at the company is that this shortage is increasingly damaging its prospects, ... more |
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Nuclear Power Not The Solution For China Says Official
Beijing (AFP) April 23, 2007Nuclear power is not the long-term answer to China's energy needs due to limited global uranium supplies and problems with nuclear waste disposal, state media on Monday quoted a top official as saying. "Nuclear power cannot save us because the world's supply of uranium and other radioactive minerals needed to generate nuclear power are very limited," Chen Mingde, vice chairman of the Natio ... read more Why GNEP Can Not Jump To The Future 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2007Congress is now considering whether to approve or zero out the $405 million that President Bush is proposing to spend in fiscal year 2008 on the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP)-a program aimed at rendering plutonium inert in nuclear weapons but still useful in nuclear power plants. Nuclear experts at the National Academy of Sciences have long questioned the practicability of the t ... more Biodiesel Will Not Drive Down Global Warming 
London UK (SPX) Apr 24, 2007EU legislation to promote the uptake of biodiesel will not make any difference to global warming, and could potentially result in greater emissions of greenhouse gases than from conventional petroleum derived diesel. This is the conclusion of a new study reported in Chemistry and Industry, the magazine of the SCI. Analysts at SRI Consulting compared the emissions of greenhouse gases by the ... more India And Japan Sign Pact On Global Warming 
Tokyo (AFP) April 23, 2007Japan signed a deal Monday to help fast-growing India fight global warming as the two countries look ahead to a framework after the landmark Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. Under the agreement, Japan will invest in India's energy industry and transfer energy-saving technology. It comes two weeks after Japan sealed a similar agreement with China during a landmark visit here by Chinese Premi ... more Buried Residual Oil Is Still Affecting Wildlife Decades After A Spill 
Bell House MS (SPX) Apr 24, 2007Nearly four decades after a fuel oil spill polluted the beaches of Cape Cod, researchers have found the first compelling evidence for lingering, chronic biological effects on a marsh that otherwise appears to have recovered. Through a series of field observations and laboratory experiments with salt marsh fiddler crabs (Uca pugnax), doctoral student Jennifer Culbertson and colleagues found ... more Everything Starts With Recognition 
Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2007A human body has more than 10 to the power of 27 molecules with about one hundred thousand different shapes and functions. Interactions between molecules determine our structure and keep us alive. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart in collaboration with scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute in Freiburg and the King's Collage London have followe ... more |
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