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The Building as an Energy Storage Device
Aug 23, 2012 (SPX)
In 2020, if all goes according to plan, the state of California will get 33 percent of its electricity from renewable power, including solar and wind, as requir...
Canada's Africa Oil increases estimates
Aug 23, 2012 (UPI)
Canada's Africa Oil Corp. increased its estimated resources for its Kenyan and Ethiopian concessions. Africa Oil Corp. commissioned British accounting firm Gaff...
Chavez unveils $130 billion oil expansion
Aug 23, 2012 (UPI)
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, seeking re-election Oct. 7, says he plans to spend $130 billion over six years to double the country's daily crude oil output....
Oil rises in Asia on China stimulus hopes
Aug 23, 2012 (AFP)
Oil prices surged in Asia on Thursday as hopes of a Chinese stimulus soared after manufacturing activity in the world's largest energy consumer fell to a nine-m...
Boat in China-Japan island dispute returns to Hong Kong
Aug 22, 2012 (AFP)
A boat which carried a group of pro-China activists to disputed islands in the East China Sea last week, leading to their detention by Japan and anti-Tokyo prot...
Boon to fusion: Scientist finds new way to predict heat layer troublemaker
Aug 22, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at a recent worldwide conference on fusion power have confirmed the surprising accuracy of a new model for predicting the size of a key barrier to f...
Constructive conflict in the superconductor
Aug 22, 2012 (SPX)
Whether a material conducts electricity without losses is not least a question of the right temperature. In future it may be possible to make a more reliable pr...
Nigerian oil workers in nationwide strike
Aug 22, 2012 (UPI)
Nigeria's capital Abuja has been experiencing fuel scarcities since the country's petroleum workers went on strike a week ago. Now the industrial action begun b...
Common metals promise electricity bounty
Aug 21, 2012 (UPI)
Less-expensive solar technology using common metals could cover America's rooftops and supply a significant part of the country's electricity, scientists say. W...
Australia sees China chance in Chevron gas exit
Aug 21, 2012 (AFP)
Australian officials on Tuesday welcomed Chevron's decision to bow out of Woodside Petroleum's massive Browse liquefied natural gas project as a chance for Chin...
UA Engineering Professor Uses Aerospace Materials to Build Endless Green Pipeline
Aug 21, 2012 (SPX)
Mo Ehsani, Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the University of Arizona, has designed a new, lightweight underground pipe he says could transform the pi...
China's CNOOC H1 profit down 19%
Aug 21, 2012 (AFP)
Chinese state-owned energy giant CNOOC Tuesday said its first-half net profit fell 19 percent year-on-year amid rising costs and a drop in production after the ...
COMAC of China, Boeing Open Energy Conservation Technology Center
Aug 20, 2012 (SPX)
Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) and Boeing has opened the Boeing-COMAC Aviation Energy Conservation and Emissions Reductions Technology Center, a col...
Japan's island disputes show malaise: analysts
Aug 20, 2012 (AFP)
Tokyo's seeming fixation with squabbles over the outposts of its former empire are symptomatic of a foreign policy drift as Japan struggles to find its place in...
US says oil firms should respect Baghdad government
Aug 20, 2012 (AFP)
The United States said Monday that oil companies should not bypass Iraq's central government after authorities in the autonomous Kurdish north signed dozens of ...
Future increases in US natural gas exports and domestic prices may not be as large as thought
Aug 20, 2012 (SPX)
Amid policy debate over potential liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the United States, a new paper from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Poli...
Anti-Japan protests erupt in China over island row
Aug 19, 2012 (AFP)
Anti-Japan protests broke out in more than a dozen Chinese cities including Beijing and Hong Kong on Sunday as authorities allowed thousands of people to vent a...
Japan should fortify islets defence: senior politician
Aug 18, 2012 (AFP)
Japan should strengthen its coast guard to defend disputed islands, the ruling party policy chief said Saturday, a day after Tokyo deported pro-Beijing activist...
'Endless' pipe seen for oil, gas industry
Aug 17, 2012 (UPI)
Aerospace materials and a process to make endless pipelines for the oil and gas industry could transform pipeline construction, a U.S. researcher says. Civil en...
SOCAR talks energy with Kyrgyz leaders
Aug 17, 2012 (UPI)
Azerbaijan state energy company SOCAR revealed this week it recently hosted top-level energy discussions with Kyrgyzstan officials on economic development. The ...
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