Andy Tully is a veteran news reporter who is now the news editor for Oilprice.com
Size is everything in today’s pocket electronics, and lithium-ion batteries are just too big for the gadgets of the future.So Imprint Energy, a startup in…
There’s been a lot of research in the past few years into how to improve the efficiency and lower the cost of solar energy technology.…
Many residents of South Portland, Maine, were ecstatic over a recent decision by the city council to forbid the use of the city’s facilities to…
No one doubts that the rotating turbines of offshore wind farms can hazardous to avian life, and that the devices’ constant whine can scare off…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and NRG Energy say they’ve begun work on the world’s biggest carbon capture facility. The project is designed to…
The beauty of biofuels is that they don’t pollute. After that things can get ugly.First, biofuel, an oil made from plant tissues, doesn’t generate as…
Royal Dutch Shell’s widely reported decision to end its role in a gas project in Qatar threatens the Gulf state’s dominance in the production of…
There are two ways to double the number of transistors on a computer chip: Either make the chip twice as big – not an option…
Russia is mounting a major publicity campaign in Europe for its proposed South Stream gas pipeline in an apparent effort to reassure its EU customers…
Rosneft, Russia’s government-owned oil giant, says news U.S. sanctions imposed because of Moscow’s suspected role in the continuing fighting in Ukraine are not only “illegitimate,”…
Two of Libya’s key ports have reopened despite the continuing unrest in the country, but the oil ministry says they both need maintenance work before…
Thanks in large part to its energy-rich oil sands, Canada exports 10 times more oil to the United States than the United States exports to…
A leading Vietnamese military officer said July 16 that China’s decision to remove a huge oil rig from waters claimed by both countries shows that…
Hydrogen has a reputation as a clean source of energy, especially when compared to fossil fuels such as oil and coal. But there’s just one…
Russian state-owned Rosneft, the most productive oil company in the world, is buying the land drilling operations of Weatherford International in Russia and Venezuela in…
Charging your cell phone might one day be as easy as exposing it to humidity.In 2013, Nenad Miljkovic, a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute…
Environmentalists are claiming victory over the Dan A. Hughes Co., which has been drilling for oil in an area of southwestern Florida next to a…
Beaver dams have so far prevented about 1 million gallons of fracking wastewater discovered spilled July 8 from a rural North Dakota pipeline from spreading…
What we now call the European Union began rather modestly in 1952 with the European Coal and Steel Community, at the time called “the first…
According to BP, drivers whose vehicles rely on burning oil have a little more than a half-century to find alternate sources of energy. Or walk.BP’s…