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Using Tree Rings to Understand Previous Climate Changes

Using Tree Rings to Understand Previous Climate Changes

Jul 10, 2012 at 16:18 | Editorial Dept

It’s been a tough few months for tree-rings, perhaps unfairly. Back in April, we commented on a study [that one of us (Mike) was involved in] that focused on…

Norwegian Oil Companies to Shutdown All Oil Production at Midnight

Norwegian Oil Companies to Shutdown All Oil Production at Midnight

Jul 09, 2012 at 16:19 | James Burgess

The strike between offshore Norwegian oil workers and the oil companies is now into its third week with little progress made in the talks over pensions. The oil companies have…

Landfills Contain Precious Metal Deposits 40-50 Times Richer than Mines

Landfills Contain Precious Metal Deposits 40-50 Times Richer than Mines

Jul 09, 2012 at 16:18 | Charles Kennedy

Technology advances at a phenomenal rate in the consumer electronic device market, with more efficient, faster, lighter, more powerful devices being released each year. This means that each year thousands…

Official Report Blames Fukushima on Negative Japanese Cultural Traits

Official Report Blames Fukushima on Negative Japanese Cultural Traits

Jul 06, 2012 at 16:49 | Charles Kennedy

Over a year after the earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daihatsu power plant, the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission, created by the Japanese parliament investigate…

Largest Hydroelectric Project in the World is Completed, but at What Cost?

Largest Hydroelectric Project in the World is Completed, but at What Cost?

Jul 06, 2012 at 16:47 | James Burgess

On Wednesday the Three Gorges dam in China had its 32nd, 700-megawatt turbine installed, completing the mega-project and bringing its total capacity up to 22.5 gigawatts, making it the largest…

China Looks to Russia's Hydroelectricity to Meet Growing Energy Demands

China Looks to Russia's Hydroelectricity to Meet Growing Energy Demands

Jul 06, 2012 at 16:46 | Joao Peixe

Industrialisation has enabled economies in Asia to develop faster than ever, and this has shifted the balance of world energy consumption from the West to the East. China is by…

$26 A Gallon for Biofuel - Is the Navy Paying too Much to be Green?

$26 A Gallon for Biofuel - Is the Navy Paying too Much to be Green?

Jul 05, 2012 at 17:22 | Charles Kennedy

At the current RIMPAC, the world’s largest international naval exercise, the US are testing the use of biofuel as part of their plan to ‘green the fleet’ by 2016. The…

China to Quadruple 2015 Solar Energy Target

China to Quadruple 2015 Solar Energy Target

Jul 05, 2012 at 17:21 | Joao Peixe

Due to the massive in-balance between supply and demand for solar cells, largely due to the huge manufacturing output of China, prices of PV panels have fallen to unprofitably low…

GT Energy and E.ON to Develop Five New Geothermal Projects in the UK

GT Energy and E.ON to Develop Five New Geothermal Projects in the UK

Jul 05, 2012 at 17:20 | Joao Peixe

As part of plans to increase operations in the UK and benefit from the government’s Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) programme, Ireland’s GT Energy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with…

Explosion Causes Huge Fire at Thailand's Largest Oil Refinery

Explosion Causes Huge Fire at Thailand's Largest Oil Refinery

Jul 04, 2012 at 15:35 | Joao Peixe

Early investigations into the cause of a huge fire at an oil refinery, which happened early Wednesday morning in Bangkok, suggest that an oil or gas leak was to blame.

Militant Attacks on Pipelines Cost Yemen $4 Billion in Lost Revenues

Militant Attacks on Pipelines Cost Yemen $4 Billion in Lost Revenues

Jul 04, 2012 at 15:34 | Joao Peixe

Last year political turmoil in Yemen caused the GCC to step in and broker a deal which called for the president Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down and hand power…

Kazakhstan Looks to Increase Gold Production by Opening Third Refinery

Kazakhstan Looks to Increase Gold Production by Opening Third Refinery

Jul 04, 2012 at 15:33 | James Burgess

Kazakhstan, Central Asia’s largest economy, produced 16.6 tonnes of gold last year; however with the opening of a third gold refinery they plan to boost that output to 70 tonnes…

China Takes Advantage of Low PV Prices to Quadruple 2015 Solar Energy Target

China Takes Advantage of Low PV Prices to Quadruple 2015 Solar Energy Target

Jul 03, 2012 at 17:20 | Joao Peixe

Due to the massive in-balance between supply and demand for solar cells, largely due to the huge manufacturing output of China, prices of PV panels have fallen to unprofitably low…

If the US Want to Pressure Iran they Should Scrap the Sanctions

If the US Want to Pressure Iran they Should Scrap the Sanctions

Jul 03, 2012 at 17:19 | James Burgess

EU sanctions took full effect against Iran on the 1st of July, and the US are hoping that they will be the final straw that breaks the camel’s back; putting…

Australia to Invest $10 Million in New Wave Energy Technologies

Australia to Invest $10 Million in New Wave Energy Technologies

Jul 03, 2012 at 17:18 | Charles Kennedy

The Australian government has announced it will use its $126 million Emerging Renewables fund to invest almost $10 million in two new Australian-developed wave technology systems, one of which claims…

U.S. & China Collaborate on Thorium Nuclear Power Research

U.S. & China Collaborate on Thorium Nuclear Power Research

Jul 02, 2012 at 15:34 | Brian Westenhaus

Mark Halper writing for SmartPlanet reports the U.S. Department of Energy is quietly collaborating with China on an alternative nuclear power design known as the molten salt reactor that…

National Shipping and Saudi Aramco Announce Deal to Merge their Fleets

National Shipping and Saudi Aramco Announce Deal to Merge their Fleets

Jul 02, 2012 at 15:31 | Joao Peixe

National Shipping Co. and Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Aramco) have signed an agreement confirming that they will merge their fleets of oil tankers in a deal worth $1.3 billion.

Venezuela Sign Deal to Explore for Oil off the Coast of Cuba

Venezuela Sign Deal to Explore for Oil off the Coast of Cuba

Jun 29, 2012 at 15:59 | Joao Peixe

A month ago Repsol, the Spanish oil company, announced it would stop all exploration operations off the coast of Cuba after it spent more than $100 million drilling a well…

Planning Approved for UK's Largest Ever PV Solar Farm

Planning Approved for UK's Largest Ever PV Solar Farm

Jun 29, 2012 at 15:58 | Joao Peixe

The UK desperately needs to invest more in renewable energy technologies as it faces criticism from Europe over the lack of progress made in the sector, and the carbon…

Petronas Make $4.7 Billion Takeover Bid for Progress Energy Resources Corp

Petronas Make $4.7 Billion Takeover Bid for Progress Energy Resources Corp

Jun 29, 2012 at 15:56 | Charles Kennedy

Many Asian companies have invested in North American shale gas in an attempt to gain both hands on experience in the fracking industry in order to develop shale gas plays…

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