Taking effect April 2015, all biomass-fired power generators in the UK will have to prove that they are doing more good than harm or face government funding cuts.
Brillouin Energy has entered into its first international licensing agreement covering three nations. The firm is involved in on-going negotiations for other potential international partners. This makes the second…
Hawaii, that favored vacation land that has to import nearly all of its power and energy needs, is about to get a $30 million infusion for its prized clean energy…
Albert Bartlett might have been another obscure physics professor had he not put together a now famous lecture entitled "Arithmetic, Population and Energy" in 1969. The lecture, available…
Very interesting data points this week on two of the world's largest gold projects.First, the negative. In Alaska, major producer Anglo American announced it is pulling out of…
Grass brought to South America in the bedding of slave ships 500 years ago could be the answer to reducing greenhouse gas emissions on agricultural land, new research shows.
Real alternative to EU exports is born during recent talks in Moscow. Representatives of Chinese National Petroleum Company and Russia’s oil & gas giants Gazprom and Novatek have inked the…
The idea of using switchgrass to produce biofuels was brought up by former US president George W. Bush in his 2006 State of the Union address, which was received with…
One of the greatest overlooked stories of the past two decades is China’s slow economic penetration of the former Soviet Central Asian states. Chinese President Xi Jinping, visiting Kazakhstan on…
The military and political dynamic in and around Syria continued to escalate since late in the week ending September 14, 2013, and more so in the days after that (September…
The numbers don't lie—but politicians and industry bigwigs do. While pundits still wax poetic about an era of American energy independence, Bill Powers, author of the book "Cold, Hungry and…
The Chinese government announced it would invest more than $13 billion on oil and gas exploration this year. The World Bank said last weekend the Chinese economy should continue growing…
Food produced but not eaten every year costs producers $750 billion annually, damages natural resources and adds 3.3 billion tons of greenhouse gases to our atmosphere, according to a new…
The diplomatic rabbit that Russia pulled out of its hat (actually out of John Kerry’s hat) by suggesting that Syria could hand over its chemical weapons to an international body…
The Lower Tertiary is considered by many to be the final frontier of oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, where, until recently, production was forecast to decline. The post-dinosaur…
I am a huge fan of in-depth research reports, for I relish the challenge of sifting through them to find the simple takeaways that make sense to me (while gracefully…
PetroChina is eyeing a $10 billion natural gas investment in plays run by Gazprom and Rosneft in Russia’s Eastern Siberia in a deal that would represent the Chinese giant’s biggest-ever…
It's surprising who's buying oil assets these days.Not major oil companies. As we've discussed, firms like Apache have been busy divesting projects globally.Brazilian oil heavyweight Petrobras…
With gas from the Caspian Sea set to move from the Southern Caucasus to Europe through Turkey by 2019, the EU-candidate country is destined to evolve into a more robust…
Coal was the fuel that fired the industrial revolutions in the U.S. and Europe. Market share for the material has plummeted in the U.S. over the past decade, which has…