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• Biofuels and Tequila: Agave May Make a Suitable Ethanol Crop

  Published 01 August 2011 | viewed 13,434 times

  Grab the lime and salt!  Tequila may soon offer more than just delicious frozen margaritas.  Researchers find that the agave plant, used to distill the…

• Building the Infrastructure for Widespread Renewable Energy

  Published 27 July 2011 | viewed 6,253 times

  The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission passes a new power transmission planning law that may streamline renewable energy. One of the major problems that has…

• Japan’s Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant to Get Anti-Tsunami Seawall

  Published 26 July 2011 | viewed 6,816 times

  In an attempt to protect its assets from a Fukushima-style meltdown, Chubu Electric Power Co. is constructing an 18-meter (60 foot) anti-tsunami seawall around its…

• Shipping Industry to be Regulated for Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emissions

  Published 20 July 2011 | viewed 10,478 times

  The United Nations approves new rules that mandate energy efficiency and carbon emissions improvements for the shipping industry. Roughly 50,000 ships carry 90 percent of…

• Chesapeake Energy to Invest $1 Billion in Natural Gas Cars

  Published 14 July 2011 | viewed 6,296 times

  Natural gas is gaining ground as oil prices still linger around $100 a barrel; however, there are limited vehicles on the road that can run…

• IEA's Efforts to Ease High Oil Prices Fails

  Published 13 July 2011 | viewed 6,506 times

  In recent weeks, the International Energy Agency (IEA) decided to release 60 million barrels of member states’ oil reserves into the world market in what…

• Australia to Invest $10 Billion in Renewable Energy

  Published 12 July 2011 | viewed 5,800 times

  Australian taxpayers will front the bill for what will be the biggest single investment in renewable energy ever.  During negotiations of a new carbon price…

• Is Coal Actually Saving us from Global Warming?

  Published 08 July 2011 | viewed 7,386 times

  In a contradiction that scientists, skeptics, businesses, governments and the media never saw coming, coal emissions may actually be both contributing to global warming and…

• Faux Commandos Breach Two U.S. Nuclear Power Plants

  Published 04 July 2011 | viewed 11,205 times

  Imagine you’re an engineer at a nuclear power plant that contains some of the most dangerous materials known to man.  Suddenly, commandos slip past security…

• The Largest Solar Rooftop Project in the World: Total Cost $2.6 Billion

  Published 29 June 2011 | viewed 4,752 times

  Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Prologis, and NRG Energy team up for the largest rooftop distributed solar project in the world. Rooftop solar energy is…

• Saudi Arabia Using Oil as an Economic Weapon Against Iran

  Published 28 June 2011 | viewed 14,876 times

  Saudi Arabia fears Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, and may flood the market with its oil reserves to bankrupt Tehran Saudi Arabia and Iran have…

• Turning Natural Gas and Carbon Dioxide Into Gasoline

  Published 27 June 2011 | viewed 7,043 times

  The United States has some of the highest recoverable natural gas reserves in the world thanks to the controversial hydraulic fracturing process that breaks shale…

• Investigation of Aging U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Reveals Some Scary Truths

  Published 23 June 2011 | viewed 10,489 times

  Amidst the ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan—that third-party scientific investigators are claiming is 30 times worse than Chernobyl—some countries seem to be coming to their…

• Russia Invited to Join the IEA

  Published 21 June 2011 | viewed 7,737 times

  Russia and other producer nations are invited into the International Energy Agency in response to high oil prices and uncertain global energy security. The International…

• Regulators Concerned About Canadian Oil Corroding U.S. Pipelines

  Published 20 June 2011 | viewed 6,191 times

  U.S. regulators express concern that diluted bitumen from Canadian oil sands may be corrosive to pipelines and risk should be assessed. The United States is…

• Recoverable Gold Resources to Run Out in 20 Years

  Published 16 June 2011 | viewed 21,518 times

  It seems we have been so caught up in the decline of oil reserves that another commodity—one that the mining industry has thrived on for…

• Batteries Growing Role in Energy Storage

  Published 27 May 2011 | viewed 9,767 times

  The concept of a distributed grid of interconnecting batteries offers a revolutionary approach to energy storage. The energy generation landscape is changing rapidly. On the…