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• High Natural Gas Prices Lead to Increased Demand for Coal in Europe

  Published 04 October 2012 | viewed 7,661 times

  US coal exports have hit a record high of 66.2 million tons, a 24 percent rise, in the first half of the year, according to…

• UK's Largest Coal Power Plant to be Converted to a Biomass Plant

  Published 29 September 2012 | viewed 10,798 times

  The U.K.'s largest coal-fired plant will become western Europe's largest clean-energy producer with the announcement of Drax Group Plc's $1 billion effort to transition from…

• India's Future in the Dark Following the Latest Blackouts

  Published 04 August 2012 | viewed 7,538 times

  Electric power was restored across northern India on Wednesday after an electric grid failure on July 30 and 31 resulted in the world's largest blackout.…

• Iran will Look to Refine its Crude Domestically, Rather than Export it

  Published 02 August 2012 | viewed 9,566 times

  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran should focus now on oil products in light of tightening sanctions Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran should stop exporting…

• Residents Remain in Centralia, Despite Coal Mine Burning Beneath their Feet

  Published 12 July 2012 | viewed 20,660 times

  As decades-long coal mine fires continue to burn beneath the ground in Centralia, Pennsylvania, ghosts with unfinished business remain.Hundreds of coal mine fires continue to…

• Mining the Infinite Resources of Space

  Published 14 June 2012 | viewed 22,013 times

  Mining for precious metals and resources is about to go where no man has gone before—space. No man except for Bruce Willis, that is. In…

• Shareholders Urge Chevron to Accept $18 Billion Ecuadorian Court Judgement

  Published 25 May 2012 | viewed 8,645 times

  New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli joined with 39 other investors from the United States, Canada and Europe, with a combined total of $580…

• New Nanotechnology That Turns Windows Into Transparent Solar Panels

  Published 01 May 2012 | viewed 18,878 times

  Our modern world is consuming energy at insatiable rates. The high-tech complexity of contemporary society has created a demand for energy resources that are both…

• The Art of Recycling: Converting Plastic to Oil

  Published 30 April 2012 | viewed 31,688 times

  The days of dumping trash into overcrowded landfills may be over. Just as you would not dump gold, diamonds, or hundred dollar bills into garbage…

• U.S. Nuclear Industry Must Find Vast Supplies of Uranium before Next Year

  Published 27 April 2012 | viewed 11,457 times

  THE SUPPLY CRUNCH Although nuclear power growth will continue to be driven by emerging economies like China, India, South Korea and even Saudi Arabia, the…

• Nanotechnology Could Make Original Solar Technologies Obsolete

  Published 26 April 2012 | viewed 16,693 times

  The solar scenario over the last few decades has historically been dominated by silicone-based solar cells. Today, over 80 percent of the manufacturing infrastructure around…

• Chevron's Underhand Tactics to Avoid Paying for Worlds Worst Oil Disaster

  Published 15 February 2012 | viewed 9,521 times

  The Andean Commission of Jurists and five prestigious international law experts from around the world have joined a growing chorus of criticism targeting Chevron's attempt…

• Self-Sufficient Floating Cities to be Produced by 2025

  Published 07 February 2012 | viewed 13,865 times

  Japanese scientists are working on a concept to build carbon-neutral, self-sufficient floating cities. Japanese firm Shimizu has a startling new concept: mini floating, carbon-neutral cities…

• Forget Wind Turbines - a Completely New Type of Wind Farm is in Development

  Published 01 February 2012 | viewed 28,380 times

  A design firm from New York, Atelier DNA, has developed a concept that uses cattail like stalks instead of traditional turbine blades for harnessing the…

• Oil Majors Move Back to the Gulf of Mexico

  Published 25 January 2012 | viewed 5,798 times

  Over a year since America's worst oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, big oil finally gets back to business... with a vengeance. For the…

• Cheaper, Safer, Smaller Nuclear Reactors will Put the US Back on Top

  Published 24 January 2012 | viewed 6,120 times

  Moving away from large-scale, toxic nuclear reactors, the Department of Energy announces a plan to develop safer, smaller options Mini reactors the future of nuclear…

• BP Closes its Solar Business After 40 Years

  Published 07 January 2012 | viewed 11,082 times

  After 40 years, BP exits its solar business in the face of fierce competition. Are they to blame? If "BP" is short for Beyond Petroleum,…

• Five Deep-Wells Shut in Ohio Following Eleven Earthquakes

  Published 03 January 2012 | viewed 6,790 times

  After a series of 11 earthquakes in the last year, Ohio suspends fluid disposal sites causing the escalating dangerous seismic activity in the area.Ohio has…

• BP Accuses Halliburton of Destroying Evidence of its Involvement in the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

  Published 07 December 2011 | viewed 10,151 times

  BP claims Halliburton Energy Services Inc. intentionally destroyed evidence that proved the firm shared the blame for last year's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.…

• Wind Energy Breakthrough: Japan Designs New Wind Turbine With Triple the Output of Traditional Models

  Published 05 December 2011 | viewed 31,826 times

  In light of recent events, Japan has been urged to pay more attention to renewable energy sources. Coincidently, in the same month as one of…