Charles Kennedy

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• Iraq to Invest $500 Billion in Energy Sector

  Published 02 October 2012 | viewed 7,281 times

  At a recent conference, Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Dr. Hussain al-Shahristani, announced that his government plans to invest around $500 billion in the…

• Green Jobs: Who's on a Hiring Spree?

  Published 01 October 2012 | viewed 8,490 times

  This month has been a fortuitous one for green jobs, despite the ups and downs particularly in the wind energy sector, and there are a…

• Tesla Start to Install Solar Powered EV Charging Stations

  Published 01 October 2012 | viewed 6,522 times

  Tesla has unveiled the first Supercharger station of its ambitious plan to install 100 throughout the US by 2015. The EV charging station is one…

• MIT Students Hope to Revolutionise the Nuclear Sector with New MSR Design

  Published 29 September 2012 | viewed 4,997 times

  Two nuclear engineering Ph.D. students at MIT have decided to take a leap of faith and start-up their own business. In 2011 Leslie Dewan and…

• Money: A New (Decentralized) Shade of Green

  Published 27 September 2012 | viewed 10,655 times

  As America’s clean energy industry takes up position in a no-man’s land between subsidies and sustainability, the idea of “Green Banks” is being touted as…

• Mecca to Become First Solar City in Saudi Arabia

  Published 27 September 2012 | viewed 12,394 times

  Mecca, the birthplace of Muhammad, and Islam’s holiest city, has plans to become the first city in Saudi Arabia to run completely on solar power.The…

• UK and Ireland Install Underwater Interconnector Cable to Boost Wind Energy

  Published 26 September 2012 | viewed 6,023 times

  The first interconnector cable between Ireland and the UK has been completed. It cost €600 million to install and can transmit 500MW of electricity between…

• Energy and Public Opinion: Confusion Reigns

  Published 25 September 2012 | viewed 8,467 times

  A recent round of public opinion polls conducted by various agencies shows that the world wants more, not less, renewable energy, and while some of…

• Oil Rig Diver Survives 40 Minutes in the North Sea without an Oxygen Supply

  Published 25 September 2012 | viewed 5,651 times

  Chris Lemons, a 32 year old commercial diver survived for almost 40 minutes under the North Sea when his air and heat supply were severed.He…

• Gold Miner Strike Grows, Despite Promises to End it Yesterday

  Published 25 September 2012 | viewed 4,258 times

  Illegal strikes have spread throughout the precious metal mines in South Africa, causing major disruptions to production for some of the largest metal companies in…

• Blind, Deaf and Ignorant: 5 Recipes for US Intelligence Failure

  Published 24 September 2012 | viewed 17,796 times

  It was so much easier when it was just the Soviet Union, a clear enemy, even a fun game. So with the 9/11 disaster, America’s…

• Smart Sponge Holds the Key to Cleaning Fracking Water

  Published 24 September 2012 | viewed 8,145 times

  At the recent World Shale Oil & Gas Summit, Abtech Holdings Glenn Rink was handed the award for the best technology innovator of 2012. Their…

• Saudi Arabia's Attempts to Control Oil Prices Continue

  Published 22 September 2012 | viewed 7,462 times

  In March Saudi Arabia managed to increase their oil production to 10.1 million barrels per day, their highest output in 31 years, as they tried…

• Europe Set for a Coal Power Boom

  Published 22 September 2012 | viewed 6,249 times

  Despite the fact that the EU will stop giving out free carbon permits soon, coal power is set to boom as other factors make it…

• Shell to Build the World's First Ever Floating LNG Plant

  Published 20 September 2012 | viewed 18,719 times

  For more than a decade the natural gas industry has been looking for a way to move LNG onto barges at sea in order to…

• Geopolitical Peak Oil: Has Unconventional Oil Production Peaked?

  Published 20 September 2012 | viewed 14,538 times

  Peak oil is a myth; at least the chance of achieving peak oil any time soon is. It has been well documented that we have…

• Oil Prices Dive 5% on Speculation and Mystery

  Published 20 September 2012 | viewed 15,869 times

  As the Saudis move to pump more oil, the US sits on increased crude supplies, the market gets edgy over Eurozone economic instability, and FedEx…

• Growing Unemployment and Civil Unrest - The Real Picture in Iran

  Published 19 September 2012 | viewed 7,410 times

  “Business is drying up, industry is collapsing. There's zero investment. I know. I see it with my own eyes.” The words of a wealthy Iranian…

• The US Continues to Suffer for its Lack of a Water Policy

  Published 19 September 2012 | viewed 3,937 times

  The US is experiencing its worst drought in over 50 years. It highlights the glaring problems that plague the US water supply and will only…

• Could Plans to Build Nine Mega Coal Mines in Queensland Doom the Climate?

  Published 18 September 2012 | viewed 15,475 times

  The Australian state of Queensland could become the seventh largest contributor of greenhouse gases on the planet, behind only China, the USA, India, Russia, Japan,…