Andy Tully is a veteran news reporter who is now the news editor for Oilprice.com
OPEC is cutting its forecast of demand for its own oil by 300,000 barrels a day in 2015 because of an increased supply of crude…
There is growing evidence that birds flying in the vicinity of a solar thermal power project in California’s Mojave Desert are being injured and even…
For years, manufacturers have used graphite for one of the electrodes in lithium-ion batteries, but have hankered for a way to replace graphite with silicon,…
Businesses and utilities that rely on carbon-fueled plants aren’t the only ones bothered by U.S. President Barack Obama’s efforts to clean up the nation’s air.…
Dividends from Russian state-run energy companies Gazprom and Rosneftegaz to the Moscow government are expected to plunge by nearly $18 billion in 2016 because of…
Look at a picture of a wind turbine and you’ll see tower topped by a fan with three blades. A Chinese company is leading an…
Most people have become familiar with the complaints about how hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is used extract oil or gas from shale: It contaminates local…
A new poll by an environmental group indicates that Canadians, evidently persuaded by Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, appear to have an inflated view of…
For years the human race has been kidding itself that it can warehouse toxic energy byproducts. Even storing them underground in remote U.S. deserts has…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is urging operators of the country’s critical infrastructure to check their computers carefully against the possibility they’ve been…
America’s increasing reliance on hydraulic fracturing to recover energy trapped in shale will soon lead Texas to generate more oil than Iraq, OPEC’s No. 2…
The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou is set to inaugurate the world’s first tram powered solely by supercapacitors, eliminating the need for unsightly overhead wires.Supercapacitors…
Already, supporters of Scotland’s independence from the United Kingdom had their work cut out for them. And now data published June 30 by the British…
You know how combustion works, right? Strike a match on a rough surface, or shoot a spark at a volatile gas. Pfft! You have flame.But…
Town officials in New York say they hope a ruling by the state’s top court will inspire cities elsewhere in the country to resist efforts…
Conventional superconductors can feed electricity with very little resistance and therefore can conduct electricity far more efficiently than ordinary copper. The downside: Superconductors don’t work…
Lawyers for claimants in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill are dismissing BP’s effort to force the repayment of hundreds of millions of dollars…
Compared to meat, tofu is a more healthful, cheaper, and less environmentally damaging food protein, and now researchers have discovered it also contains an ingredient…
Russia’s 30-year, $400 billion gas deal with China can’t get started until Russia develops more gas fields and both countries build pipelines on their territories,…
The ancient Greek mathematician and engineer Heron of Alexandria designed the earliest known wind turbine in the first century AD. For all that’s happened in…