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Virus-Built Nanowires Help Boost Battery Performance

Nov 22, 2013 at 17:56

Leave it to the wizards at MIT for amazing innovation.  MIT researchers have found a way to boost lithium-air battery performance, with the help of modified viruses.

How to Stop the Inexorable Progress of Climate Change

Nov 22, 2013 at 17:52

Apocalyptic climate change is upon us.  For shorthand, let’s call it a slow-motion apocalypse to distinguish it from an intergalactic attack out of the blue or a suddenly surging Genesis-style…

Where’s The Top Place to Produce Oil and Gas Today?

Nov 22, 2013 at 17:29

One of the most critical pieces of news for the E&P sector came this month. Not a new discovery. Or a high-impact drilling technique. In fact, this development…

Are you Listening to the Pundits or the Markets?

Nov 22, 2013 at 17:23

Happy days are here again:  The outpouring of joy at seeing gas prices marginally lower coming into Thanksgiving this year has the oil watchers all aglow – but I am…

Breathing Life into Egypt’s Dying Energy Sector

Nov 22, 2013 at 17:22

When Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak was taken down in the 2011 revolution, the energy sector went with him. Since then, it has been a long stream of bad news for…

Oil Market Forecast & Review 22nd November 2013

Nov 22, 2013 at 17:16

After several weeks of consolidation, January crude oil closed in a position to breakout to the upside, as talks between Iran and six other nations to curb Tehran’s nuclear program…

Mozambique Faces Critical Security Threat

Nov 22, 2013 at 17:11

Bottom Line: After two decades of relative post-civil-war peace, Mozambique is seeing a resurgence of violence and the fact that the country made the largest natural gas discovery in the…

Kenya’s Uncertain Security Environment

Nov 22, 2013 at 17:08

Bottom Line: The security situation in Kenya is set to worsen in the aftermath of the September attack on a shopping center as anti-terror police overstep their bounds and threaten…

This Week in Energy: Landmark EU-Ukraine Agreement Officially Dead

Nov 22, 2013 at 13:03

Ukraine was set to sign a landmark trade association agreements with the European Union on 29 November, much to the dismay of Moscow, but the deal is now…

Avoid This Green Sector Until These Changes Happen

Nov 22, 2013 at 09:04

I mention alternative energy infrequently. Mostly because I'm not convinced much of the sector is investable.One possible exception being geothermal.Speakers at the GeoPower Latin America Conference…

The Makings of a Petro-State

Nov 21, 2013 at 17:08

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts the Bakken formation will hit a milestone in December when it surpasses 1 million barrels per day of oil production. Since 2010, oil production…

Foreign Investment Sought for Turkey’s First Nuclear Power Plant

Nov 21, 2013 at 17:01

Despite the catastrophe that overwhelmed Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s six reactor Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex on 11 March 2011, the global energy community has cautiously decided to press forward…

Low Gasoline Prices Bring US Inflation Down to Four Year Low

Nov 21, 2013 at 16:57

A big drop in gasoline prices brought the US inflation rate for October, as measured by year-on-year change in the consumer price index, to just 0.95 percent, its lowest level…

Keystone XL Proposed Launch Delayed to 2016

Nov 21, 2013 at 16:50

Canadian pipeline giant TransCanada Corp. (TRP) has delayed the start date for the planned Keystone XL pipeline for a second time this year to 2016, as approval from Washington…

Does the IEA Know What It’s Talking About?

Nov 21, 2013 at 16:47

It was as if the International Energy Agency were appearing on the old American television game show To Tell the Truth last week as it offered a

Lower Fuel Prices not Enough for U.S. Travelers

Nov 20, 2013 at 17:28

Some retail service stations in the United States have already posted prices below the elusive $3 mark this year and prices could dip even further before the New Year. U.S.…

Washington Gives in to Pressure and Cuts Biofuel Mandate

Nov 20, 2013 at 17:24

After months of intense lobbying from rival quarters, Washington has proposed cutting the biofuels mandate for 2014 by 16% to 15.21 billion gallons.This would be the first cut…

How an EU-US Free Trade Agreement will Affect the Energy Sector

Nov 20, 2013 at 17:21

Last week the second round of negotiations for an EU-US free trade agreement took place. Energy has not been making headlines in the context of these talks, but a TTIP (Transatlantic Trade…

DOE Dashes Freeport LNG Export Hopes

Nov 20, 2013 at 17:13

Texas’ Freeport LNG terminal was given the conditional green light in May, but a new bid to ship more liquefied natural gas from the terminal has fallen short of expectations…

Is a Green Revolution Likely to Happen?

Nov 20, 2013 at 17:08

A week after the most powerful “super typhoon” ever recorded pummeled the Philippines, killing thousands in a single province, and three weeks after the northern Chinese city of Harbin…

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