ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Chevron wins partial victory in Ecuador pollution case

Sep 19, 2013 (AFP)

An arbitration panel in the Hague has given US oil firm Chevron an important procedural victory in its battle against a $19 billion fine by Ecuador for pollutin...

Algeria gas plant report reveals energy security gaps

Sep 18, 2013 (UPI)

The first detailed report of what happened when 32 jihadists stormed the In Amenas gas complex in Algeria in January concludes there were inadequate security me...

Iraq Kurdish leader insists on right to export energy

Sep 18, 2013 (AFP)

A senior leader of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region insisted on Wednesday that it had the right to export oil, efforts which the central government in Baghdad h...

Ecuador's Correa calls for Chevron boycott

Sep 17, 2013 (AFP)

Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa called Tuesday for a global boycott of Chevron, as part of a campaign to highlight Amazon pollution that Quito has attributed ...

Study: Less methane leaks from fracking than EPA says

Sep 17, 2013 (UPI)

Natural gas drilling emits 10 percent less methane greenhouse gas than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and fracking critics say, a study indicates. The...

How the newest diesel engines emit very little greenhouse gas nitrous oxide

Sep 16, 2013 (SPX)

The newest catalytic converters in diesel engines blast away a pollutant from combustion with the help of ammonia. Common in European cars, the engines exhaust ...

China aims to reduce coal consumption

Sep 16, 2013 (UPI)

China plans to reduce coal use and promote cleaner industrial production as part of the government's new plan aimed at reducing pollution. World Bank President ...

New battery uses microbes to turn sewage into energy

Sep 16, 2013 (AFP)

US scientists may have found a new way to produce clean energy by way of dirty water, according to a new study out Monday. The engineers have developed a more e...

New Kind of Ultraviolet LED could Lead to Portable, Low-Cost Devices

Sep 16, 2013 (SPX)

Commercial uses for ultraviolet (UV) light are growing, and now a new kind of LED under development at The Ohio State University could lead to more portable and...

Probing methane's secrets: From diamonds to Neptune

Sep 15, 2013 (SPX)

Hydrocarbons from the Earth make up the oil and gas that heat our homes and fuel our cars. The study of the various phases of molecules formed from carbon and h...

China confirms new gas pipeline through Tajikistan

Sep 14, 2013 (AFP)

China's Xi Jinping at a regional summit signed a deal to build a gas pipeline through the impoverished ex-Soviet country of Tajikistan, Tajik television reporte...

Clay key to high-temperature supercapacitors

Sep 13, 2013 (SPX)

Clay, an abundant and cheap natural material, is a key ingredient in a supercapacitor that can operate at very high temperatures, according to Rice University r...

DNV students propose new subsea solution for the Gulf of Mexico

Sep 13, 2013 (SPX)

Tasked by DNV with developing new ideas for oil recovery at 2,500 metres depth in the Gulf of Mexico, a group of 20 international graduating master's students h...

Nigerian residents reject Shell settlement over oil spills

Sep 13, 2013 (AFP)

Negotiations between Shell and Nigerian residents affected by two oil spills in 2008 failed to reach a compensation deal Friday, with residents' lawyers calling...

Chevron, Transocean settle over Rio oil spill

Sep 13, 2013 (AFP)

US energy giant Chevron and Swiss-based rig operator Transocean signed a deal with Brazilian prosecutors on Friday to settle lawsuits over an oil spill off the ...

Researchers discover breakthrough technique that could make electronics smaller and better

Sep 13, 2013 (SPX)

An international group of researchers from the University of Minnesota, Argonne National Laboratory and Seoul National University have discovered a groundbreaki...

Oerlikon Leybold offers flexible solutions for heat-treatment and metallurgy

Sep 13, 2013 (SPX)

Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum won several orders globally for vacuum systems out of the metal treatment field, optimized for customer specific needs. Advantage of the...

Lebanon's gas hopes leak away amid country's woes

Sep 13, 2013 (UPI)

Lebanese officials are struggling to paper over the country's plethora of problems, political and otherwise, that are holding up exploration for natural gas in ...

Mideast Oil Loses Some of its Power

Sep 13, 2013 (SPX)

On his way back from the Yalta conference in February 1945 where US President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Great Britain's Winston Churchill and the Soviet Un...

Researchers find new opportunites for waste heat

Sep 11, 2013 (SPX)

Physicists at the University of Houston's physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity are working on an innovation that could boost vehicle mi...