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The US$33 billion expansion plan was shelved in 2012.World’s largest miner BHP Billiton (ASX:BHP) said Friday that plans to resume…
Cold weather drives people to turn up the thermostat, and that’s exactly what happened during the winter of 2013 across the U.S. Northeast. As a result, the United States experienced…
OPEC Secretary-General Abdalla Salem el-Badri says he doesn’t expect demand for the cartel’s oil or its production levels to change in the coming year, and he is urging member states…
A multidisciplinary engineering team at University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering (UCSD) has developed a new nanoparticle-based material designed to absorb and convert to heat more…
A British company has moved closer to harnessing the power of sea waves to generate clean, affordable and renewable electricity.Ecotricity spent 18 months improving the design…
Pirate attacks on the high seas have fallen for a third straight year everywhere but Southeast Asia, the main route for oil shipments from the Middle East to East Asia.
Planetary Resources, the U.S.-based start-up aiming to mine in space, lost its first test satellite aboard the commercial rocket that exploded…
Rescue workers have been pumping water out of a coal mine in southern Turkey all night, but hopes of finding alive all…
A conservative British think tank has concluded that wind energy can’t be relied on to meet the United Kingdom’s power needs and must be supplemented with fossil-fuel power plants.
The global drop in oil prices over the summer led to a steep drop in BP’s third-quarter profits, but that hasn’t stopped the British energy giant from raising its dividend.
This October 2010 photo provided by Penn State University shows the arms of a brittle starfish, red in color, clinging…
The world now gets about one-fifth of its electricity from sustainable sources, but one, solar power, remains a relatively expensive option, according to a new study.The review…
European researchers say an unprecedented surge in the construction of hydropower dams around the world could double renewable electricity generation, but potentially at the expense of freshwater wildlife.Scientists…
Credit: ShutterstockIt turns out tough compromises and substantive problem-solving may be something national governments can still do.On the…
Imagine a 3-D LCD display on your e-book that hardly ever needs recharging because it draws power only when you turn it on or when you go to the next…
Canada’s National Energy Board has granted a big win for Kinder Morgan Energy Partners’ (NYSE:KMI) plans to conduct survey work…
Boeing and the Chinese airplane manufacturer Commercial Aircraft Corp. (COMAC) are working together on a biofuel project that would turn China’s rivers of used cooking fat, known as “gutter oil,”…
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have developed a commonsense way to lower the cost of solar panels, focusing on their most expensive component: silicon.
Credi: ShutterstockThe price of utility-scale solar power is 59 percent below where analysts thought it would be at this point…
Lockheed Martin says it’s within a decade of producing a fusion reactor that’s 90 percent smaller than previous designs.The stakes are high, and so is the enthusiasm…