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How Urbanisation will Change in the Future

How Urbanisation will Change in the Future

Apr 10, 2012 at 13:21 | Editorial Dept

In 2009, the percentage of the planet’s population living in urban areas crossed the 50% threshold…this year the population of the world’s cities will grow by a further 65 million…

American Natural Gas Reserves Almost at Full Capacity, Prices Set to Dive

American Natural Gas Reserves Almost at Full Capacity, Prices Set to Dive

Apr 09, 2012 at 18:20 | James Burgess

Natural gas prices are at a 10 year low in North America and are only predicted to fall further as production continues at record levels. In fact so much natural…

Apple to Build Giant Hydrogen Fuel Cell to Provide Electricity for the Grid

Apple to Build Giant Hydrogen Fuel Cell to Provide Electricity for the Grid

Apr 09, 2012 at 18:15 | James Burgess

Hydrogen fuel cells offer a scalable, clean, renewable energy source. They are currently used in some automobiles, but due to the ease of scalability can be used to create large…

Why Climate Change is Such a Tough Sell

Why Climate Change is Such a Tough Sell

Apr 09, 2012 at 18:13 | Charles Kennedy

Climate change has been a debate that has polarised the world for a few years. The majority now believe, but not sufficiently to create the support needed to turn the…

Chevron Use Solar Energy to Help Extract Heavy Oil

Chevron Use Solar Energy to Help Extract Heavy Oil

Apr 09, 2012 at 18:11 | Joao Peixe

Heavy oil accounts for a large portion of new oil being produced around the world today. It is known as heavy oil due to its high viscosity which makes it…

How the UK Could Receive 60% of Electricity from Renewables by 2020

How the UK Could Receive 60% of Electricity from Renewables by 2020

Apr 08, 2012 at 09:49 | Green Futures

This seemingly optimistic scenario is very much a possibility according to a report by WWF, so what will it take for us to get ahead of the game now and…

New Shetland Wind Farm to be the Most Productive in the World

New Shetland Wind Farm to be the Most Productive in the World

Apr 05, 2012 at 16:54 | Charles Kennedy

The Shetland Islands in the north-east of Scotland regularly experience the highest wind speeds in Europe, and to take advantage of this a new on-shore wind farm project has been…

ConocoPhillips Board Approves Plan to Split into Two Companies

ConocoPhillips Board Approves Plan to Split into Two Companies

Apr 05, 2012 at 16:51 | Joao Peixe

Over the past several years ConocoPhillips has invested billions of dollars to help it grow into the third largest oil company in America, behind Exxon and Chevron. They bought Burlington…

The Law that Prevents Cheap Fuel for America

The Law that Prevents Cheap Fuel for America

Apr 05, 2012 at 16:50 | James Burgess

100 million acres of American farmland is used to grow corn, of which a third is then turned into approximately 14 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol. Yes it helps to…

Grid-Scale Energy Storage to be worth $113.5 Billion per Year by 2017

Grid-Scale Energy Storage to be worth $113.5 Billion per Year by 2017

Apr 04, 2012 at 17:06 | Charles Kennedy

Lux Research, an independent research and advisory firm providing strategic advice and on-going intelligence for emerging technologies, have recently released a bottom-up evaluation of energy storage technologies for grid-scale application.…

Why America will become an Export Powerhouse

Why America will become an Export Powerhouse

Apr 04, 2012 at 13:20 | Editorial Dept

At least three forces are likely to combine to make the United States an [increasing] export powerhouse.First, artificial intelligence and computing power are the future, or even the…

Asia's Oil Majors Look to North America for Oil and Gas

Asia's Oil Majors Look to North America for Oil and Gas

Apr 03, 2012 at 17:28 | James Burgess

The price difference between North American natural gas and that in Asia has attracted many Asian firms, such as PetroChina Co., Mitsubishi Corp., and Cnooc Ltd., to invest in the…

Petrobras Now being Drawn into the $11 Billion Chevron Case

Petrobras Now being Drawn into the $11 Billion Chevron Case

Apr 03, 2012 at 17:26 | Joao Peixe

Following the deepwater horizon spill at BP’s Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico back in 2010, Brazilian authorities have increased their scrutiny of wells of their own shores. Gianna…

New Air Borne Turbine Enables Wind Power in More Locations

New Air Borne Turbine Enables Wind Power in More Locations

Apr 03, 2012 at 17:24 | James Burgess

Wind turbines suffer from inconsistency due to the varying levels of wind that blow at ground level. Wind in the upper atmosphere blows with much more power and more consistently.…

OTE Corp to Build Two OTEC Plants and an Eco-Industrial Park in the Bahamas

OTE Corp to Build Two OTEC Plants and an Eco-Industrial Park in the Bahamas

Apr 02, 2012 at 16:49 | Joao Peixe

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) describes a source of renewable energy that is growing in popularity amongst tropical island nations. Warm seawater from the surface is run through a heat…

Will Small Modular Reactors Make Nuclear Power More Attractive to Investors?

Will Small Modular Reactors Make Nuclear Power More Attractive to Investors?

Apr 02, 2012 at 16:46 | Charles Kennedy

Large, modern nuclear reactors can produce more than 1,000 megawatts worth of power, but cost around $7 billion to build. They must also pass vast amounts of safety procedures and…

Oil Subsidies: Are Politicians Thinking about the People or Themselves?

Oil Subsidies: Are Politicians Thinking about the People or Themselves?

Apr 01, 2012 at 11:02 | James Burgess

On Thursday, once again Obama tried to push a vote for slashing the tax subsidies in the oil and gas industry, and once again the Republicans just laughed at him…

Pike Research Predict a Boom in the Waste-to-Energy Sector

Pike Research Predict a Boom in the Waste-to-Energy Sector

Apr 01, 2012 at 11:00 | James Burgess

According to Pike Research, the market research and consulting firm that provides in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets, the global market for thermal and biological waste-to-energy technologies is set…

Asia's Interest in Australian Iron Ore Continues to Grow

Asia's Interest in Australian Iron Ore Continues to Grow

Apr 01, 2012 at 10:59 | Charles Kennedy

Marubeni Corp. of Japan, POSCO, and STX, both of Korea, will buy 30 percent of an Australian iron ore project for 3.6 billion Australian dollars (AUS$), adding to a long…

Researchers Base New Wind Turbine Control System on Human Memory

Researchers Base New Wind Turbine Control System on Human Memory

Apr 01, 2012 at 10:45 | Joao Peixe

Prices of wind power have been constantly decreasing of late, and now electricity from wind is almost as cheap as that from conventional fossil fuel power stations. It does however…

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