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Huge Demand Sees Second Hand Model S’s Sold for as Much as $130k in Norway

Huge Demand Sees Second Hand Model S’s Sold for as Much as $130k in Norway

Oct 09, 2013 at 17:04 | Joao Peixe

The Tesla Model S electric car only went on sale in Europe in August, but already official records have marked it down as the top selling car in…

Chesapeake’s New CEO Fires 1,200 to Reduce Huge Costs Left by McClendon

Chesapeake’s New CEO Fires 1,200 to Reduce Huge Costs Left by McClendon

Oct 09, 2013 at 16:59 | James Burgess

The new CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp, Doug Lawler, continues to make redundancies and asset sales in order to reduce the high costs left behind by the free-spending Aubrey McClendon.

Government Spies Help Canadian Energy Firms Take the Initiative

Government Spies Help Canadian Energy Firms Take the Initiative

Oct 09, 2013 at 16:55 | Charles Kennedy

Documents handed over to Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden describe in detail how the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) has been involved in surveillance and hacking operations…

FBI Investigating Attacks on Electrical Grid in Arkansas

FBI Investigating Attacks on Electrical Grid in Arkansas

Oct 09, 2013 at 16:52 | Joao Peixe

Three recent attacks that have been carried out against the power grid in Arkansas have drawn the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), who is now investigating the…

NIF Achieves Important Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion Research

NIF Achieves Important Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion Research

Oct 08, 2013 at 16:53 | Joao Peixe

Nuclear fusion is rather different from nuclear fission. Fission, is the reaction currently used in nuclear power plants, and produces dangerously radioactive elements; fusion is the currently being researched by…

UK Reveals Strategy to Install 20GW of Solar Capacity within a Decade

UK Reveals Strategy to Install 20GW of Solar Capacity within a Decade

Oct 08, 2013 at 16:46 | James Burgess

At the recent Solar Energy UK conference, Climate Change Minister Greg Barker, revealed a new government roadmap that provides a strategy to encourage the installation of as much as…

Frenchman Tries to Run his Business from a Desert Island Using Solar Panels

Frenchman Tries to Run his Business from a Desert Island Using Solar Panels

Oct 08, 2013 at 16:42 | Charles Kennedy

Life on a desert island, on the face of it, always seems so idyllic - a paradise. Guthier Toulemonde, a Frenchman, has decided to take a trip to paradise, travelling…

Iceland: Geothermal Pioneers Go Commercial

Iceland: Geothermal Pioneers Go Commercial

Oct 07, 2013 at 16:59 | Charles Kennedy

Iceland already leads the world in renewable energy use, and now it’s hoping that new geothermal and hydroelectric projects will render it the first country in the world to be…

Four Arrested in Plot to Sabotage Iranian Nuclear Facility

Four Arrested in Plot to Sabotage Iranian Nuclear Facility

Oct 07, 2013 at 16:56 | James Burgess

On Sunday, Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, announced that authorities had made arrests after investigating an alleged plot to sabotage one the country’s nuclear…

Oil Theft is Costing Nigeria $1 Billion a Month

Oil Theft is Costing Nigeria $1 Billion a Month

Oct 07, 2013 at 16:53 | Charles Kennedy

Chief Martin Onovo, a petroleum engineer and a 2011 candidate for the presidency of Nigeria with the Action Alliance, gave…

Repsol Confident the Next Shale Boom will be in North Africa

Repsol Confident the Next Shale Boom will be in North Africa

Oct 07, 2013 at 16:48 | Joao Peixe

North America is the king of the fracking boom, enabling it to vastly boost domestic production of natural gas and crude oil, moving it one step closer to its ultimate…

Kazakhstan’s Oil Industry Back on Track as Kashagan Field Begins Producing Again

Kazakhstan’s Oil Industry Back on Track as Kashagan Field Begins Producing Again

Oct 07, 2013 at 16:43 | Joao Peixe

On the 11th of September, after nearly 13 years, and around $50 billion of investment, the North Caspian Operating Company finally began production at the high-pressure oilfield in Kazakhstan…

Solving the Oil Industry Generation Gap

Solving the Oil Industry Generation Gap

Oct 07, 2013 at 08:57 | James Stafford

Today’s oil and gas workforce is full of Baby Boomers and the ranks of Generation Y, leaving Generation X sidelined in the industry and languishing in the black hole of…

LNG Locomotives to be Common in the US by 2016

LNG Locomotives to be Common in the US by 2016

Oct 04, 2013 at 17:56 | Charles Kennedy

In 2011, US railroad companies consumed a little over 3 billion gallons of diesel, nearly 5.5% of the total consumption for the entire country.Oil is currently much more…

Cuadrilla Abandons Lancashire Fracking Site to Protect Migratory Birds

Cuadrilla Abandons Lancashire Fracking Site to Protect Migratory Birds

Oct 04, 2013 at 17:53 | James Burgess

Oil companies have a reputation, whether fully warranted or not, of caring little for the environment in their quest to discover and extract more hydrocarbons in order to increase profits…

Carbon Cuts Could Save Millions of Lives

Carbon Cuts Could Save Millions of Lives

Oct 04, 2013 at 17:46 | Joao Peixe

A new study hits home how dangerous greenhouse gases are, claiming that aggressive reductions would not just alleviate climate change, but could avoid up to 3 million premature deaths every…

US Fracking Industry has Used 250 Billion Gallons of Water Since 2005

US Fracking Industry has Used 250 Billion Gallons of Water Since 2005

Oct 04, 2013 at 17:42 | Joao Peixe

The fracking boom has been applauded by many as the saviour of the US, dragging its economy out of recession, and bringing in a new era of oil and gas…

Labour’s Promise to Freeze Energy Prices could Harm Energy Investment

Labour’s Promise to Freeze Energy Prices could Harm Energy Investment

Oct 04, 2013 at 17:40 | Joao Peixe

Last week, at the Labour Party’s annual conference, leader Ed Miliband announced that if victorious in the 2015 general elections, he will freeze energy bills.This claim has…

Tesla Stock Falls After Model S Bursts into Flames

Tesla Stock Falls After Model S Bursts into Flames

Oct 03, 2013 at 16:40 | James Burgess

Tesla, the clean energy technology success story of the year, and perhaps the decade, has just recently suffered a bit of a blow after one of its electric cars burst…

MIT Accidently Discovers Technique to Generate Energy from Condensation

MIT Accidently Discovers Technique to Generate Energy from Condensation

Oct 03, 2013 at 16:33 | Joao Peixe

A recent report, published in the journal Nature Communications by MIT postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, details the completely unexpected phenomenon discovered by MIT researchers that tiny water droplets which form on…

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