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Jun 08, 2012 at 16:57

The call was scratchy and barely audible. I was instructed to not mention any names. I should only use the prearranged code words when talking about political parties. You never…

Jun 08, 2012 at 16:45

Feasible fusion power – the carrot before the donkey?When I was about 10, I recall hearing that nuclear fusion power would become a reality "in about thirty years".…

Jun 08, 2012 at 16:36

Stuart Staniford has been watching the decline in oil prices. He has then commented that, given the Saudi need for income to hold off “Arab Spring” dissatisfaction, they are…

Jun 08, 2012 at 16:30

Turkmenistan recently hosted parties to a planned natural gas pipeline that would stretch eastward through territory in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. The project, dubbed TAPI, has financial backing from the…

Jun 07, 2012 at 18:23

Arguably, the Middle East and North Africa are ripe for renewable energy investment, particularly in the solar energy sector and specifically in terms of concentrated solar power (CSP). Because it…

Jun 07, 2012 at 18:20

Since the 1991 implosion of the USSR, the Russian Federation has been bedevilled by a transit problem – how to shift its natural gas exports to lucrative European markets without…

Jun 07, 2012 at 18:14

It seems that no matter what financial series you look at, there's a similar pattern of ups and downs over the last few years. I was curious to get a…

Jun 07, 2012 at 18:08

New documents that have been leaked reveal that the British government has been trying its best to dilute the potency of new European renewable energy and carbon emission targets, despite…

Jun 07, 2012 at 18:06

The military’s FY2013 budget is playing out to be a hot-bed of debate over the role of government in supporting clean energy innovation. Both the U.S. House of Representatives…

Jun 06, 2012 at 17:17

Advocates of the shale gas boom in the United States and the corresponding oil sands surge in Canada point to the thousands of potential jobs and benefits to national energy…

Jun 06, 2012 at 17:11

It is very difficult to understand the climate change denial platform on a purely philosophical and scientific level. Climate change is a rather obvious aspect of the history of the…

Jun 06, 2012 at 17:07

The dramatic collapse in the price of oil is creating a rare opportunity to get into some of the highest yielding paper in the financial markets, master limited partnerships (MLP)'s.…

Jun 06, 2012 at 16:54

In an editorial today, the Washington Post called on lawmakers to put innovation at the centre of federal policies supporting wind power, in the latest endorsement of the findings…

Jun 06, 2012 at 16:50

Pakistan's 44 per cent hike in outlay for atomic energy in its 2012–2013 budget contrasts with a massive drop in funds for crop research and overshadows a much smaller hike…

Jun 05, 2012 at 17:37

Chevron is revered in Wall St. and City of London for its massive abilities as a money machine. Last year Chevron, the United States’ largest oil and gas company after…

Jun 05, 2012 at 17:34

On Monday, a suicide bomber in Iraq detonated his car bomb outside the Baghdad offices of a government-backed Shiite group, leaving at least 190 people wounded and 26 people…

Jun 05, 2012 at 17:08

The Bakken shale is a huge expanse of oil-bearing rock that lies underneath Northern Dakota and Montana. Oil production in the Bakken has grown from just 60,000 barrels per day…

Jun 05, 2012 at 17:04

I like site visits—there’s nothing like seeing a company’s innovations in person.  In the case of Makani Power, I harboured some core misconceptions about their technology, and the visit…

Jun 05, 2012 at 16:44

The United States clean energy industry certainly cannot count on Congress these days, but at least it has Ghana.With clean energy momentum stymied on Capitol Hill, Foggy Bottom…

Jun 05, 2012 at 16:36

It was no surprise that China responded to the US decision to impose countervailing tariff duties on sale of imported photovoltaic panels from China.  We expected more of a tit…