Walker's World: $200 oil is coming
Washington (UPI) Aug 11, 2008
Oil prices may be dropping like a stone, but it won't last, according to one of the West's top experts on the industry, who is forecasting "an oil supply crunch" in or around the year 2013 when the price could soar as high as $200 a barrel.
The problem will come "not because of below-ground resource constraints but because of inadequate investment by international oil companies and ... read more
Wind Energy Development Path Cleared In South Texas
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 12, 2008
Babcock and Brown announced that a federal court in Texas dismissed a final lawsuit, clearing the path to bring wind energy to South Texas. Babcock and Brown's wind farm on the Texas Gulf Coast, which will provide enough clean and renewable energy to power 80,000 Texas homes, will be completed and operational later this year. The wind farm is located on the property of the Kenedy Memorial ... more
Progress Energy Florida Files Nuclear Plant Application With NRC
St. Petersburg FL (SPX) Aug 12, 2008
Progress Energy Florida has announced that it submitted a combined license (COL) application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to construct a new nuclear power plant in Levy County, Florida. The application, submitted to the NRC July 30, included the request to build two Westinghouse AP1000(TM) nuclear reactors at the site. Nuclear power is a key component of Progress Energy ... more
PSE Adds Turbines At Hopkins Ridge Wind Facility
Bellevue WA (SPX) Aug 12, 2008
Puget Sound Energy's (PSE) Hopkins Ridge Wind Facility continues to build on the success of generating clean, renewable energy with the addition of four new wind turbines. The expansion, which brings the total number of turbines at the Dayton, Columbia County facility to 87, is another step for the utility and the region toward a sustainable energy future. "Wind power and southeastern ... more
Solar Energy Now More Cost Effective In South Carolina
Greer SC (SPX) Aug 12, 2008
Greer SC (SPX) Aug 12, 2008
Solar energy has just become more cost effective in South Carolina as a result of a recent Public Service Commission order. Starting July 1, solar customers are now able to use net metering to offset their energy costs like customers in nearly all 50 states. "This is significant for South Carolina. With rising energy costs, net metering can further reduce solar ... more
Papuan tribal chief takes on US mining giant: report
Jakarta (AFP) Aug 11, 2008
A tribal chief in Indonesia's West Papua launched a campaign Monday to get compensation from US mining giant Freeport for environmental damage to his homelands, a report said. Fabianus P., chief of the Kapiraya tribe, said tailings from Freeport's huge gold and copper mine in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province were causing more widespread ecological damage than was known, Antara news age ... more
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CAR TECH
Mitsubishi's i MiEV Electric Vehicles Tested
ENERGY TECH
Future Fuels Gallery Created At Detroit Science Center
SOLAR DAILY
SV Solar Establishes Pilot Production Facility
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OMEGA Celebrates Its Solar Impulse Partnership In Beijing
Beijing, China (SPX) Aug 12, 2008
Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, the co-founders of the Solar Impulse project with its ambitious goal of circumnavigating the globe in an airplane powered only by the sun, were welcomed to the OMEGA Pavilion on the Olympic Green in Beijing on Sunday, 10 August, 2008. OMEGA provides technical and capital support to Solar Impulse, sharing in the visionary founders' conviction that the ... more
Flexible Nanoantenna Arrays Capture Abundant Solar Energy
Jacksonville FL (SPX) Aug 12, 2008
Researchers have devised an inexpensive way to produce plastic sheets containing billions of nanoantennas that collect heat energy generated by the sun and other sources. The technology, developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, is the first step toward a solar energy collector that could be mass-produced on flexible materials. While methods to convert the ... more
Applied Materials Awarded Multi-Year Solar Service Contract
Santa Clara CA (SPX) Aug 12, 2008
Applied Materials has announced that it has signed a five-year service contract with Green Energy Technology Inc. (GET) of Taiwan to support GET's Applied SunFab Thin Film Line for solar module manufacturing. Through its SunFab Performance Service program, the most comprehensive service offering in the solar industry, Applied will reduce operating costs while enabling a quick ramp to volume ... more
Quantum Chaos Unveiled
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Aug 11, 2008
A University of Utah study is shedding light on an important, unsolved physics problem: the relationship between chaos theory - which is based on 300-year-old Newtonian physics - and the modern theory of quantum mechanics. The study demonstrated a fundamental new property - what appears to be chaotic behavior in a quantum system - in the magnetic "spins" within the nuclei or centers of ... more
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SUPERPOWERS
Outside View: Strategic lessons -- Part Two
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Scientists To Assess Beijing Olympics Air Pollution Control Efforts
FARM NEWS
Ethical coffee helps save Peruvian rainforest
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Climate Change: When It Rains It Really Pours
Virginia Key FL (SPX) Aug 11, 2008
Climate models have long predicted that global warming will increase the intensity of extreme precipitation events. A new study conducted at the University of Miami and the University of Reading (U.K.) provides the first observational evidence to confirm the link between a warmer climate and more powerful rainstorms. One of the most serious challenges humanity will face in response to ... more
UN criticises displacement of Panama dam tribe
Geneva (AFP) Aug 8, 2008
A UN special representative on the rights of indigenous people on Friday urged the government of Panama to intervene in a dam project that has allegedly forced an indigenous community from their land. The company AES Changuinola has been constructing the CHAN 75 hydroelectric project since 2007 in western Panama's Bocas del Toro Province. "I observe with concern the human rights violation ... more
Compressed air cars eyed by industry
New Paltz, N.Y. (UPI) Aug 9, 2008
Although doubted by some as impractical, plans for a car that runs on compressed air is generating a buzz, U.S. industry observers say. Zero Pollution Motors of New Paltz, N.Y., has obtained a license from MDI of Barcelona, Spain, to produce the six-seat "air cars" in the United States, which is says it will begin delivering for less than $18,000 in 2010, CNN reported Saturday. ... more
Iran in new oil money move to dodge sanctions: report
Tehran (AFP) Aug 9, 2008
Iran's government has ordered the state oil company to deposit oil revenues only in selected banks in a bid to dodge toughening sanctions over its nuclear drive, local media reported on Saturday. The state-run National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) had been free to choose where to deposit the tens of billions of dollars Iran receives annually in earnings from its crude oil exports. But a ... more
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CIVIL NUCLEAR
US official urges nuclear suppliers to back US-India pact
SOLAR DAILY
Sunny Prospects For Solar Cell Manufacturing Equipment Market
ENERGY TECH
Russia bombing raid near oil pipeline: Georgian PM
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