ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

More environmental rules needed for shale gas

Feb 08, 2012 (SPX)

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama praised the potential of the country's tremendous supply of natural gas buried in shale. He echoed the...

Graphene electronics moves into a third dimension

Feb 08, 2012 (SPX)

In a paper published this week in Science, a Manchester team lead by Nobel laureates Professor Andre Geim and Professor Konstantin Novoselov has literally opene...

An electronic green thumb

Feb 08, 2012 (SPX)

If sensors are supposed to communicate with each other to compare the measured data and to secure them, then, in the future, a network of distributed sensor nod...

Israel seeks Cyprus base to guard gas zone

Feb 08, 2012 (UPI)

Israel is reported to be seeking to deploy fighter aircraft in Cyprus, its partner in developing a natural gas bonanza under the eastern Mediterranean, to prote...

Italy to hold gas talks as cold snap toll hits 26

Feb 07, 2012 (AFP)

Italy was set to hold emergency talks on Tuesday aimed at maximising gas supplies to vulnerable households as the cold snap tightened its grip on the country an...

Commercial traffic resumes on Shatt al-Arab

Feb 07, 2012 (AFP)

Commercial traffic has resumed on the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway after 31 years, with the official opening of a port for oil giant Shell, an Iraqi officia...

BP swings into huge profit before US criminal trial

Feb 07, 2012 (AFP)

BP returned to profit with a bang last year, posting net earnings of $23.9 billion on Tuesday as the British energy giant prepares for a criminal trial linked t...

Commerce returns to Iran-Iraq border river

Feb 07, 2012 (AFP)

Commercial traffic has resumed on the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway after a three-decade break with the official opening of a port for oil giant Shell, an Ir...

BP surges back into profits, as US criminal trial looms

Feb 07, 2012 (AFP)

BP returned to profit with a bang last year, posting net earnings of $23.9 billion on Tuesday, as the British energy giant prepared for a criminal trial over th...

Iraqi businessmen shy away from Iranian currency

Feb 07, 2012 (AFP)

Huge numbers of Iranian pilgrims visit Shiite holy places in Iraq each year but businesses have grown wary of transactions in the Islamic republic's rial as it ...

Rebels free 29 Chinese in Sudan

Feb 07, 2012 (AFP)

A group of 29 Chinese workers taken by rebels in southern Sudan 11 days ago has been freed in good health and flown to Kenya, officials said on Tuesday, after B...

Chinese workers freed in Sudan: foreign ministry

Feb 07, 2012 (AFP)

A group of Chinese workers "kidnapped" by rebels in southern Sudan 11 days ago have been freed and flown to Kenya, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. "The Su...

Solvay hails world's largest fuel cell of type in Flanders

Feb 06, 2012 (AFP)

Chemicals giant Solvay hailed Monday the successful entry into service in Flanders of what it said was the largest fuel cell of its type in the world. A super-b...