Andy Tully is a veteran news reporter who is now the news editor for Oilprice.com
Electric vehicles are becoming all the rage, but one may just miss the point, according to aging aficionados of classic Harley-Davidson motorcycles.“The guys I'm riding…
Nigeria says it is prepared to help Europe meet its long-term needs for gas at a time when there is concern about the western flow…
Golf balls aren’t dimpled for mere cosmetic reasons. The pattern of tiny divots actually reduces drag by cutting air resistance in half.But no matter how…
For the first time in almost 40 years, the U.S. Commerce Department has given two American companies permission to export ultralight oil, known as condensate.The…
A California company is getting ready to test a new form of elevated train at Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) that could lead to a revolution…
The global environmental group Greenpeace has acknowledged that it has made some serious financial mistakes recently but says that doesn’t mean it has lost its…
Environmentalists, opposition politicians and First Nations leaders are uniting in criticizing the Conservative government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper for giving conditional approval to…
Solar cells are only capable of converting less than one-third of the solar energy they collect into electricity. Now Sharp Electronics has come up with…
The rise in crude oil extraction from shale in the United States has been lessening the effect of the fighting in Iraq on the price…
Exhausted and abandoned oil wells in Pennsylvania may be leaking methane, one of the most potent of the greenhouse gases, but are not accounted for…
The albatross for transportation, in so many ways, is fuel: its cost, its volume, and its weight. Sure, sci-fi movies show city-sized spacecraft wafting their…
Since June 16, Ukraine has received no gas from Russia because it missed a deadline for paying off nearly half its debt of more than…
Proposed U.S. import tariffs on solar panels made by Chinese companies could increase their cost in America by an average of 14 percent, sharply diminishing…
Much recent solar energy research has been on how plants use photosynthesis to convert sunlight into energy in extremely low-light environments. Now EMPA, the Swiss…
The French government is proposing legislation that would cap its use of nuclear power at current level of 63.2 gigawatts a year and instead shift…
What could be more natural than a cow or a sheep? What could be more pristine (except to the human sense of smell)? Yet such…
This really isn’t as much of a stretch as it sounds. It’s just a matter connecting the dots in ways that might seem counterintuitive.Start with…
Renewable energy, if properly adopted, could create better-paying jobs, improve international trade balances, and promote industrial development around the world.That’s according to a new report…
Panasonic and SunPower have unveiled the specifications of a new technology that allows silicon solar cells to achieve record efficiency at a cost that they…
Some oil companies are disregarding Iraq’s assurances of tight security in the midst of a strong Sunni Muslim insurgency that is spreading throughout the country…