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Energy / Energy-General

Regenerative Agriculture: Feeding the Future

Feb 14, 2012 at 17:46 | Professor Chris Rhodes

It is an illusion to think we can continue to use as much energy as we do now. No one can entirely rule-out that some extravagant technology will be forthcoming,…

Searching for a Cost Effective Way to Deal with Air Pollution

Feb 14, 2012 at 17:40

It costs $50 million per gigawatt to put 99% effective particulate air pollution control onto coal plants. China has about 650 GWe of coal power installed in 2011. It…

Turkey Gets More EU Roadblocks Towards Accession, Now Energy Chapters

Feb 13, 2012 at 17:49 | John Daly

Turkey’s seemingly interminable effort to join the European Union has hit a new snag. Energy. On 9 February European Union Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule and…

Physicists Meet at CERN to Discuss Progress Made on Cold Fusion

Feb 12, 2012 at 18:58 | Brian Westenhaus

Francesco Celani and Yogendra Srivastava will be leading a kind of informal meeting called a colloquium at Europe’s fundamental physics facility, CERN.  The topic, “Overview of Theoretical and Experimental Progress…

Tunisia - A Possible Electrical Savior of Southern Europe?

Feb 12, 2012 at 18:51 | John Daly

Europe, battered by a perfect storm of recession and rising energy requirements, is looking for additional electrical power reserves anywhere it can. Surcease may come from North Africa, and the…

Andrea Rossi and the E-Cat: Con Artist or Genius?

Feb 11, 2012 at 13:53 | James Burgess

Italian inventor Andrea Rossi's LENR Energy Catalyser (E-Cat) machine claims to use a small amount of energy to start a fusion reaction between nickel and hydrogen (at room temperature) which…

Canada, North American Energy Powerhouse, Now Faces Fracking Protests

Feb 08, 2012 at 17:56 | John Daly

Mexican President Jose de la Cruz Porfirio Diaz Mori once reputedly said nearly a century ago, “¡Pobre México¡ Tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos¡” (“Poor…

China Buys Into Portuguese National Power Company, Politicians Aghast

Feb 08, 2012 at 17:42 | John Daly

In the capitalist dog eat dog world, financial distress is an opportunity for those flush with cash. The Portuguese economy, hammered by soaring debt, has led the government to…

Are Electric Delivery Trucks the Future of Trucking?

Feb 08, 2012 at 17:36 | Environmental News Network

Trucking has become the most common mode for transporting goods across the land. However, all those trucks on the road burning diesel fuel can create a great deal of air…

Israeli Company Promotes Shale Oil and Natural Gas Production, Protests Ensue

Feb 07, 2012 at 17:35 | John Daly

Israel imports all its oil and coal and 70 percent of its natural gas needs, leaving the government deeply interested in developing indigenous alternatives. Highlighting the vulnerability of its…

Similarities Between Climate and Energy Policies are Only Skin Deep

Feb 07, 2012 at 17:26 | Judith Curry

It has been claimed that energy security and climate policy should be considered “two sides of the same coin.” In 2006, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said, “We must…

Self-Sufficient Floating Cities to be Produced by 2025

Feb 07, 2012 at 17:21 | Energy Digital

Japanese scientists are working on a concept to build carbon-neutral, self-sufficient floating cities. Japanese firm Shimizu has a startling new concept: mini floating, carbon-neutral cities that drift across the…

The Energy Mix that will help us Survive without Fossil Fuels

Feb 07, 2012 at 17:14 | Tom Murphy

Breathe, Neo. I’ve been running a marathon lately to cover all the major players that may provide viable alternatives to fossil fuels this century. Even though I have not exhausted…

Oil Rich Azerbaijan Looking for Investors

Feb 07, 2012 at 17:11 | John Daly

The prosperity of former republics of the USSR, which collapsed in December 1991, has primarily been driven by the development of energy resources in the post-Soviet era, notably around the…

How Energy Availability Affects Economies and Societies

Feb 07, 2012 at 17:06 | Open Democracy

So familiar has the social economy of energy become in modern societies, so routine its extraordinary wastefulness, so toxic its effects, that the capacity for a better way can be…

U.S. Energy Trade Mission to Visit Four African Countries

Feb 07, 2012 at 12:40 | John Daly

For the last decade, as China has advanced its economic interests on the Dark Continent, Washington regarded Africa primarily through its ‘global war on terror” lens. Top of the U.S.…

Are There Holes in Pipeline Transparency?

Feb 06, 2012 at 22:48 | Daniel J. Graeber

An assistant attorney general in Montana announced this week he was trying to decide whether or not to move ahead with claims against Exxon Mobil for a July oil spill…

Cambodia - Next Oil and Natural Gas Frontier?

Feb 06, 2012 at 22:46 | John Daly

U.S. and Japanese companies are interested in prospecting for oil and natural gas in Cambodia. According to Phai Siphan, state secretary and spokesman of the Council of Ministers Office,…

The Energy Fallout from the Arab Spring

Feb 04, 2012 at 12:10 | Daniel J. Graeber

Jordan announced this week it was discussing with Baghdad the development of natural gas fields along its northern border with Iraq. The pipeline system in the Sinai Peninsula carrying natural…

Canada's Shameful Propaganda Against Saudi Arabian Oil Reaches New Levels

Feb 04, 2012 at 12:07 | Post Carbon

Almost exactly nine years ago, opposition to the US invasion of Iraq was reaching a fever pitch. On February 15, 2003 millions of people around the world rallied to…

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