ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Fuel Cell Innovation By UNIST Researchers

Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)

Research team of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Georgia Institute of Technology, and Dong-Eui University developed a novel cathode ...

Cameron voices strong backing for British shale gas development

Aug 14, 2013 (UPI)

British Prime Minister David Cameron said this week the country "cannot afford" to miss out on the benefits of controversial shale gas development. Writing in a...

Deteriorating situation in Nigeria worries oil majors

Aug 13, 2013 (UPI)

Royal Dutch Shell and Italy's ENI say they are concerned about Nigeria's deteriorating operating environment. Nigeria, a member of the Organization of Petroleum...

Uruguay finds onshore oil, looking at commercial angle

Aug 13, 2013 (UPI)

Uruguay has struck oil in rock formations in the north of the country near Salto, the second-largest city after the capital Montevideo, and its experts are test...

Temporary battery tattoo turns human sweat into electricity

Aug 13, 2013 (UPI)

Scientists continue to unveil impressive innovations at the American Chemical Society's annual conference, currently being held in San Francisco. The latest is ...

Chad suspends Chinese oil company for environmental violations

Aug 13, 2013 (AFP)

Chad said Tuesday it had suspended all operations of the local unit of China National Petroleum Corporation for flagrant violations of environmental regulations...

China set to become world's biggest net oil importer

Aug 13, 2013 (AFP)

China is set to overtake the United States as the world's largest net oil importer from October, according to US figures, due to a combination of rising Chinese...

Iraq violence kills 13 as oil pipeline bombed

Aug 13, 2013 (AFP)

Attacks in Iraq killed 13 people on Tuesday, four of them Shiite worshippers, while militants bombed a major oil pipeline, halting exports via Turkey, officials...

Technip, Dof announce Petrobras pipeline contract

Aug 12, 2013 (AFP)

French group Technip and a Norwegian firm have won contracts worth 1.35 billion euros involving the construction of the biggest pipe-laying ships of their type ...

Sit-in demands Obama stop pipeline

Aug 12, 2013 (AFP)

Some 200 people staged a sit-in outside the US State Department Monday, demanding that US President Barack Obama stop the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline. Ac...

China to become world's biggest oil importer

Aug 12, 2013 (UPI)

China is on course to surpass the United States as the world's largest importer of oil, says new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. "The immi...

Lightning strike sparks Venezuela oil refinery blaze

Aug 12, 2013 (AFP)

A lightning bolt ignited fuel at an oil refinery east of Caracas on Sunday, sending giant columns of black smoke into the sky and forcing hundreds to evacuate. ...

Keystone XL won't add to greenhouse emissions: study

Aug 09, 2013 (UPI)

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would not have an impact on greenhouse gas emissions, a study indicates. The study by energy consultancy IHS CERA says it agre...

Battery Design Gets Boost from Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

Aug 09, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a new flexible nano-scaffold for rechargeable lithium ion batteries that could help make cell phone ...

Iran beefs up oil tanker fleet on growing business from China

Aug 09, 2013 (AFP)

Iran has beefed up its oil tanker fleet with vessels from China and is selling more crude to Beijing as Tehran struggles under international sanctions, the IEA ...

Philippines to start talks with US on greater military presence

Aug 08, 2013 (AFP)

The Philippines said Thursday it would soon start talks on expanding US access to its bases, a move that would result in a greater presence of American troops i...

CU-Boulder team develops new water splitting technique that could produce hydrogen fuel

Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)

A University of Colorado Boulder team has developed a radically new technique that uses the power of sunlight to efficiently split water into its components of ...

New Green-Tech discovery neutralizes pollution emissions

Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)

HIT is now bringing the new technology to market and has already signed joint venture agreements to begin converting ships. HNG effectiveness in neutralizing po...

Showing Promise for Lighting Energy Reductions

Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)

Lighting represents 26 percent of a commercial building's electric load, which roughly translates to 10 percent of a building's operating costs. Advanced lighti...

Soft approach leads to revolutionary energy storage

Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)

Monash University researchers have brought next generation energy storage closer with an engineering first - a graphene-based device that is compact, yet lasts ...