Andy Tully

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• Bulgaria Bows To EU, Halts Work On South Stream

  Published 09 June 2014 | viewed 4,487 times

  Bulgaria says it has not given up on the South Stream pipeline even though it has agreed to a request from the European Commission to…

• Keystone Pipeline Called Vulnerable To Terrorist Attacks

  Published 07 June 2014 | viewed 7,947 times

  A new report says the proposed Canada-U.S. Keystone XL pipeline would be an easy target for a terrorist attack that could create an environmental disaster.David…

• U.S. Court Rules Against BP In Gulf Spill Claims Case

  Published 07 June 2014 | viewed 13,521 times

  BP has already paid $14 billion to clean up the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and $13 billion in compensation…

• Solar Energy, Made In The Shade

  Published 05 June 2014 | viewed 5,962 times

  What if you want to install a solar energy panel on the roof of your home, but that roof isn’t bathed in sunshine all day…

• Gazprom Deal With China May Cost Russia

  Published 05 June 2014 | viewed 11,437 times

  Russia’s deal to sell an estimated $400 billion in gas to China may require an initial investment from Moscow.Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, told an energy…

• Australian Researchers Break The ‘Solar Barrier’

  Published 05 June 2014 | viewed 6,087 times

  Australia’s national science agency says it has used sunlight to create “supercritical” steam that can compete with coal and gas to run power stations.Researchers from…

• World Energy Needs Will Cost $48 Trillion By 2035

  Published 04 June 2014 | viewed 4,976 times

  Earth’s energy needs will cost $48 trillion by 2035 to meet the demands of a growing global population, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reports.The Paris-based…

• China Angry About U.S. Tariff Hike On Solar Panels

  Published 04 June 2014 | viewed 6,514 times

  China’s Ministry of Commerce on June 4 sharply criticized as protectionist a U.S. decision to raise tariffs on imports of Chinese-made solar panels by 35.2…

• South Stream Pipeline Threatens EU Unity On Russia

  Published 03 June 2014 | viewed 5,001 times

  Bulgaria is accusing its fellow EU nations of placing Sofia uncomfortably in the middle of a dispute between Europe and Russia over the unrest in…

• China Vows Cap On Carbon Emissions

  Published 03 June 2014 | viewed 6,243 times

  China, the world’s largest polluter, has declared that for the first time it will impose an absolute limit on its carbon emissions. The announcement, coming…

• New U.S. Emissions Rules Have Popular, But Not Political, Support

  Published 03 June 2014 | viewed 5,367 times

  U.S. President Barack Obama’s new rules to reduce carbon emissions are getting very little support from the Republican Party leadership or even some of his…

• Iron Reconsidered As Long-term Electricity Storage

  Published 03 June 2014 | viewed 5,007 times

  Researchers gave up on inexpensive iron and chromium as a means for long-term and high-volume energy storage some 40 years ago. Now they’ve given it…

• Powering Your Cell Phone With Your Pants

  Published 03 June 2014 | viewed 5,680 times

  Batteries: They’re the holy grail of energy storage in an era when your smart phone never seems to have enough juice to play another round…

• Elastic Wings Promise Greater Aircraft Fuel Efficiency

  Published 02 June 2014 | viewed 6,594 times

  Ever since Leonardo Da Vinci, mechanized aviation has been all about imitating the streamlined flight of the bird. And, more recently, it’s been all about…

• Beijing Condemns U.S. Official’s Remarks On Territorial Claims

  Published 02 June 2014 | viewed 4,486 times

  China has denounced U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s characterization of Beijing’s territorial claims in East Asian waters.At an international security conference in Singapore on May…

• Airbus Thinks Big With Small Electric Plane

  Published 31 May 2014 | viewed 7,705 times

  Airbus Group, the international consortium that makes huge jetliners, has debuted a new kind of aircraft: a tiny, electrically powered plane called the E-Fan.The experimental…

• Pushing The Envelope On EBike Technology

  Published 31 May 2014 | viewed 5,405 times

  Think of it as the bike James Bond would ride, if James Bond rode a bike instead of an Aston Martin. For a cool $6,125,…

• Obama Plans To Announce Rules To Cut U.S. Carbon Emissions

  Published 29 May 2014 | viewed 5,260 times

  U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to announce a program that would cut emissions from his country’s coal-fired power plants by 20 percent nationwide and…

• Statoil CFO Optimistic About European Gas Supply

  Published 29 May 2014 | viewed 5,538 times

  Torgrim Reitan, the chief financial officer of Norway’s Statoil, is upbeat about Europe’s fuel supply, despite the dispute between Russia and Ukraine that has threatened…

• Japanese Ice Wall To Help Prevent Spread Of Radiation

  Published 28 May 2014 | viewed 6,767 times

  Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) has approved a plan to freeze the soil around the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent radioactive groundwater from…