ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Iran develops plans for deliberate Gulf oil spill: report

Oct 14, 2012 (AFP)

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards have developed plans to damage an oil tanker in the Gulf to create an environmental disaster, German magazine Spiegel reported...

Poland to invest 12.5 billion euros in shale gas by 2020

Oct 13, 2012 (AFP)

Poland will invest 50 billion zlotys (15.5 billion euros) in the exploration of shale gas by 2020, Finance Minister Mikolaj Budzanowski said Saturday. Investmen...

Mug handles could help hot plasma give lower-cost, controllable fusion energy

Oct 12, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers around the world are working on an efficient, reliable way to contain the plasma used in fusion reactors, potentially bringing down the cost of this...

China goes after big stake in Iraq's oil

Oct 11, 2012 (UPI)

Chinese oil companies are showing a growing interest in Iraq's oil industry, which the International Energy Agency expects to more than double production by the...

AllCell Granted U.S. Patent to Prevent Thermal Runaway Propagation in Li-ion Batteries

Oct 11, 2012 (SPX)

AllCell Technologies received a new U.S. patent covering the use of phase change materials (PCM) to prevent thermal runaway propagation in electrochemical devic...

The Best of Both Catalytic Worlds

Oct 11, 2012 (SPX)

Catalysts are substances that speed up the rates of chemical reactions without themselves being chemically changed. Industrial catalysts come in two main types ...

Canada extends review of CNOOC's Nexen takeover

Oct 11, 2012 (AFP)

Canada's industry minister announced Thursday a 30-day extension to review Chinese state-owned energy giant CNOOC's $15.1 billion takeover bid for the Canadian ...

Morocco seeks to be green energy leader

Oct 10, 2012 (UPI)

Morocco is driving to become the world's leading solar power state, with a 7,400-acre pilot project in the Sahara Desert it hopes will lead to vast carbon-free ...

Researchers Develop New Way to Determine Amount of Charge Remaining in Battery

Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that allows users to better determine the amount of charge remaining in a batter...

Iraq eyes 10 million bpd oil target despite IEA report

Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq insisted on Wednesday its oil output could reach up to 10 million barrels per day by 2020, far higher than a prediction from the International Energy Agenc...

Graphene membranes may lead to enhanced natural gas production, less CO2 pollution, says CU study

Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)

Engineering faculty and students at the University of Colorado Boulder have produced the first experimental results showing that atomically thin graphene membra...

Japan, India to study LNG pricing

Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)

Japan and India on Wednesday launched a joint research project into pricing structures in LNG markets, the Japanese government said, amid complaints that energy...

What Impact does Oil have on the Syrian Civil War?

Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)

There is a popular belief in the Middle East that Washington's foreign policy, particularly as it relates to this precarious region, is largely driven by Americ...

Topological Superconductors

Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)

quantum computers are ever going to perform all those expected feats of code-breaking and number crunching, then their component qubits - tiny ephemeral quantum...

Chevron decries court refusal to block Ecuador fine

Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)

Oil giant Chevron said it was disappointed by the US Supreme Court's decision not to block an $18 billion fine sought by Ecuador for environmental damage in the...

IEA says Iraq oil output to more than double by 2020

Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)

Iraq could more than double its current daily oil production by 2020, vastly boosting its economy and helping to bring stability to global energy markets, the I...

Using less gas and oil to get where you're going

Oct 08, 2012 (SPX)

A quick pit-stop at the gas station is enough to put a good dent in your wallet. New technology is set to lower the high cost of filling up your car, by enablin...

Britain weighing tax breaks on shale gas: Osborne

Oct 08, 2012 (AFP)

Britain is considering "generous" tax breaks for shale gas exploration to encourage investment in the industry, finance minister George Osborne said Monday. His...

Gunmen kill Chinese worker in northern Nigeria

Oct 08, 2012 (AFP)

Gunmen have shot dead a Chinese national who was working as a chef for a construction company in Nigeria's troubled northeast, a company official said Monday. B...

Dutch court rejects Shell bid to ban Greenpeace protests

Oct 05, 2012 (AFP)

A Dutch court on Friday rejected a bid by oil multinational Royal Dutch Shell to ban Greenpeace from protesting near its property on pain of a massive fine, say...