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Brazil Is the Next Economic (and Political) Superpower

Yet times are changing in Brazil and it is no longer inconceivable that Brazil will emerge in the next few decades alongside India and China as one of the worldarabnews

Modeling imagination

A funnel that spins sewage at such a great speed it hardens into material that can be used to build roads. An island built to grow corn and soy that will become biodiesel to fuel a city. Those were some of the ideas incorporated into model cities designed by seventh and eighth graders at the […]

Capturing energy from the sun

Architect Gary Watrous, however, wasn’t worried. He knew that the passive-solar house he had designed for Ann Klem and Dean Smith would stay warm because it captures the sun’s rays and uses them as heat. Passive-solar buildings harness the sun’s rays through south-facing windows, which allow warmth and light inside, especially in winter, when the […]

Human-Produced Aerosols in Many Arctic Clouds Contribute to Climate Warming

Two scientists from Scripps Institute of Oceanography and Brookhaven National Laboratory have measured the impact of a significant anthropogenic source of warming: aerosol concentrations in Arctic clouds. The research is published in the current issue of Nature. The team used radiometric data to show that increased concentrations of aerosols in the clouds cause the cloud […]

EU Opens Tender to Turn Wine Lakes into Biofuel

The European Union has opened a tender to sell off unwanted wine lakes in four countries to produce bioethanol for use in EU markets, the latest edition of its Official Journal said on Wednesday. The tender would offer 666,095 hectolitres of wine stored in France, Italy, Hungary and Spain to companies willing to put it […]

Breaking into higher dimensions with the help of Zero Point Energy Fields

Scientists are busy trying to breaking into the higher dimensional hyperspace and use zero point energy fields for limitless source of energy. Casimir effect demonstrates the real physical results of zero point fields (ZPF0 and energies (beyond the quantum effects).Two plates are placed together such that the gap limits the wavelength of zero point fields […]

Wormhole transport becoming reality

General Relativity and negative matter- energy fields shows it is possible to create a bubble around a vehicle which would allow it to move at a velocity faster than the speed of light…Scientists all over the world are excited about the fact that the worm hole travel may become reality in the next ten to […]

Scientists opposing Lake Baikal oil pipeline threatened

Russian scientists opposing construction of an oil pipeline along the bank of the World Heritage site of Lake Baikal are receiving threats for their stand against the project which they say would damage the unique wildlife of the lake. Baikal, called the ”Jewel of Siberia”, is the world’s deepest lake and home to hundreds of […]

Court action over Buncefield fire

Victims of the Buncefield fuel depot explosion have launched legal action at the High Court in a bid to gain compensation from the oil industry. The group wants the court to decide who was liable for the blast, which devastated parts of Hemel Hempstead. “Our experience is that following a disaster of this nature the […]

Bush To Promote Fuel-Saving Technologies

Trying to calm anxieties about soaring energy costs, President Bush is using his State of the Union address this week to focus on a package of energy of proposals aimed at bringing fuel-saving technologies out of the lab and into use. In Bush’s vision, drivers will stop at hydrogen stations and fill their fuel-cell cars […]

All is silent down at the pond

Conservationists are mistaken, argues Professor Tim Halliday in this week’s Green Room; many animals and plants cannot be saved from extinction, and the job of conservation scientists is to document them as they disappear. As long ago as 1952, Rachel Carson predicted a ‘Silent Spring’ if humans did not change their relationship with the natural […]

Days of cheap heat are over, experts say

Gas customers dial down to cope with costs MICHIGAN – Cindy Symonik and her husband, Mark, took many of the usual steps. They closed various vents, put glass doors on their fireplace, had extra insulation installed and set the thermostat at 65 in their 2,200-square-foot home in Pittsfield Township. Yet the Symoniks, who had paid […]

Costs draining farms

Cost of natural gas continues to drive farmers away from irrigation KANSAS – Flood irrigation pipe lies in a heap next to the emerging wheat field. Larry Kepley is hoping someone comes by sometime wanting to purchase some of it. He has no use for it anymore, after all. Last year, he only pumped from […]

Hot stuff

With today’s high cost of natural gas, hot air whooshing out of registers sounds like money floating away. It’s scary enough that some are looking to other sources to heat the house. Wood has been used for a long time, and pellets manufactured from wood are becoming more widely used. So is corn – it’s […]

No quick way for Georgia to end Russian energy dependency

Georgia’s strategic dream of ending its dependence on Russian energy supplies cannot be realised for two or three years and the country faces a rocky road before new partners such as Azerbaijan or Iran can step in, analysts say. The mysterious explosion that wrecked the main Russian-Georgian gas pipeline a week ago has again reminded […]

Coal-burning ethanol plant going up near Nevada

IOWA – A new ethanol plant being constructed just west of Nevada will be the second plant in the United States to be powered by coal. Lincolnway Energy LLC’s $83 million project is nearly identical in design to the country’s first Clean Coal Technology ethanol plant, which is also in Iowa, according to Lars Dunn, […]

Material costs put heat on business

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Taking the temperature of West Michigan’s business climate is tricky this year. Look at the range covered by the thermometer, at left, that illustrates predicted changes in commodity and service prices for 2006. No single price will change exactly that amount, of course, but it gives you an idea of the […]

It’s time to call Tehran’s bluff on oil supply

One reason Iran is brushing off international condemnation of its nuclear program so defiantly is that its leaders apparently believe they have the world, literally, over a barrel. Facing broad criticism of its decision to resume nuclear research, Iran has responded with transparent threats to cut off oil supplies if the world imposes economic sanctions […]

Thune sees less ethanol competition from Brazil

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Worries that Brazil may threaten the United States’ ethanol industry appear to be fading, U.S. Sen. John Thune said after a trade mission to Brazil, Chile and Argentina. Brazil’s commitment decades ago to an ethanol industry fueled by sugar cane leaves the country pretty much energy independent because of its renewable […]

Rising prices fuel fill-and-flees

More motorists zipping away before paying at the pump FLORIDA – All the Uni-Mart clerk was able to tell State College police was that it was a large sport utility vehicle. Whoever was driving it filled the vehicle with $64.60 worth of gasoline Thursday evening at the 1381 E. College Ave. convenience store and drove […]

Natural gas supplies to Georgia restored

VLADIKAVKAZ, January 29 (RIA Novosti) – Natural gas supplies to Georgia via the Mozdok-Tbilisi gas pipeline have been resumed, Sevtransgaz, a company that conducted the repairs said Sunday. The energy crisis in Georgia began January 22 when explosions hit the Mozdok-Tbilisi gas pipeline in the Russian Republic of North Ossetia and a power line in […]

China Leaps Forward

China expects to complete a small commercial plant, which will produce 195 megawatts of electricity, within five years in the eastern province of Shandong. Huaneng Power, one of the country’s largest electricity companies, is ponying up about half the $300 million price tag. What makes the pebblebed technology so important is its fail-safe design—it would […]

UK energy policy is just load of hot air

Sir Digby Jones is normally a cheery fellow, not given to intemperate outbursts. But if you want to see the CBI chief reduced to a rare, righteous froth, all you have to do is mention Britain’s energy market… We have been living in a fool’s paradise for years. We have to recognise that a combination […]

Oil: A Question Of Supply

It had seemed like the worst was over. After peaking at around US$75/bbl in September, crude oil prices had quietly drifted back into the fifties, and suddenly it seemed as if it were all just a bad dream. Mind you, a couple of years ago US$50/bbl would have seemed outlandish, but since China’s long term […]

Oil delta burns with hate

Levels of thuggery that once seemed acceptable to major oil firms operating in the Nigerian delta are now spilling over into widespread, vicious attacks. Will murder and kidnapping force them to pull out of the country altogether? Fears are growing from investors, oil workers and agencies working in the Niger delta that the escalating violence […]

OPEC members’ domestic turmoil could cause oil crisis – analysts

The vigor of China’s demand for oil since 2004 has coincided with rising consumption in the US and India and has shaken up the supply side of the industry. OPEC has increased production, but this has left it with little spare production in reserve, leaving it vulnerable to a supply shock in a member country. […]

Iran Crisis ‘Could Drive Oil Over $90”

Oil markets are braced for a nail-biting week, as world leaders demand action against Iran over its nuclear ambitions, and analysts warn that crude prices could reach $90 a barrel if the oil-rich state retaliates by blocking supplies. The International Atomic Energy Agency meets on Thursday to decide whether to refer Iran to the United […]

Scientists Debate Issue of Climate’s Irreparable Change

Now that most scientists agree human activity is causing Earth to warm, the central debate has shifted to whether climate change is progressing so rapidly that, within decades, humans may be helpless to slow or reverse the trend. This “tipping point” scenario has begun to consume many prominent researchers in the United States and abroad, […]

Energy security will fall victim to political spats

CALL it the war of the State of the Union Address. As you read this, the final battle in that war is under way, with the winners to be determined on Tuesday evening when President George Bush goes before a joint session of Congress and assorted dignitaries, and the nation, to report on the State […]

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