Clean Energy: Carbon Nanohorns For The Storage Of Hydrogen

Hydrogen would be the ideal candidate to replace fossil fuels if only it wasn’t so difficult to store it safely. Researchers at CNRS have discovered a storage solution which is both efficient and cheap: carbon nanohorns. With such structures, the hydrogen-carbon bond is far more stable than with nanotubes. This study removes the obstacles which […]

US Senators Introduce Bill to Promote Plug-In Electric Drive Vehicles

US Senate Finance Committee members Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) have introduced a bill to support the development of commercially viable plug-in electric drive vehicles (PEDVs), including pure battery-electric, plug-in hybrid electric, and plug-in fuel cell vehicles. greencarcongress

The first fuel cell that runs on biomethane

For the first time ever in Europe, biomethane will soon be used to operate a stationary fuel cell system. All the preparations for this unique event are already in place. The HotModule, as the fuel cell system from Ottobrunnbased CFC Solutions GmbH is known, was installed on the customer site in May 2007. In conjunction […]

The Earth in imminent peril

Nothing short of a planetary rescue will save it from the environmental cataclysm of dangerous climate change. Those are not the words of eco-warriors but the considered opinion of a group of eminent scientists writing in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.Six scientists from some of the leading scientific institutions in the United States have issued what […]

Co-op finds biodiesel sales unsustainable

After 15 months of selling pure biodiesel, a fuel made from vegetable or soybean oil, the Denver Biodiesel Co-op is homeless and facing permanent closure. The co-op, which opened it doors in its first location at 3860 Tennyson St. in Northwest Denver, had grand plans for that original space, including housing the co-op and office […]

Nigeria faces general strike; unions warn oil exports to be halted

ABUJA (Thomson Financial) – Nigerian unions delayed the start of a general strike by two days but warned it could hit oil exports from Africa’s biggest producer. Unions had given the government until midnight Sunday to reverse a doubling of value-added tax (VAT), a 15 pct hike in fuel prices and to review a decision […]

Utilities call on consumers to save energy

Consumer electronics, big houses lead to record demand. What your power company and you can do to help conserve. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — With the hot summer approaching and ever more air conditioners and other consumer electronic devices straining the nation’s already burdened power system, utilities are scrambling to get customers to use less. “Eighty […]

The price of gasoline has people asking how high and what if

THE VILLAGES To the first question, the Buraks, Village of Santiago residents, have a simple answer. When it comes to family, the couple may be willing pay a lot of money at the pump.

The Railroad Industry: Buffett’s Next Big Bet

…What is also interesting is that Buffett didn’t make a bet on a single railroad company, but on three. So it may not be that he saw value in BNI per se, but in the railroad industry as a whole. Railroads have always had near-monopoly status where they have operated because of the sheer amount […]

Saudi Arabia’s oil consumption rises 6.2% in 2006

(MENAFN) A report issued by British Petroleum plc (BP) showed that Saudi Arabia’s domestic oil consumption rose by 6.2 percent to 2 million barrels per day (bpd) last year from 1.89 million bpd in 2005, while its oil production for the international market declined by 2.3 percent during the same period, Arab News reported. According […]

Older cars’ emissions go unchecked

CHICAGO Nationwide, about 70% of the 238 million cars and trucks in use are 1996 or later models, the Environmental Protection Agency says. Cars older than 1996 models account for about one-fourth of miles driven but contribute more than two-thirds of total auto air pollution, says Joel Schwartz, an environmental consultant in Sacramento. The EPA […]

Wall Street, Iraq and the Declining Dollar

…In the four years since the toppling of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi oilfields and associated infrastructure have sustained 400 attacks. And because of the situation on the ground, Iraqi oil production, at 1.95 barrels per day during the first quarter of 2007, was far short of the government’s goal of 2.5 million barrels per day […]

Food costs take bigger bite of budgets

… General Mills later this month is reducing the sizes of boxes of many types of cereal, such as Cheerios, Wheaties and Cocoa Puffs. Although the company will sell the boxes for less than it’s been charging for the bigger sizes, the change will increase the price per ounce. “This will help offset rising input […]

Pakistan: 16-hr blackouts spark more violence

KARACHI: People took to the streets Sunday and held up traffic for a major part of the day as Karachi remained shrouded in darkness due to unannounced load shedding. Two coal-based power-generation plants are being provided to the Karachi Electricity Supply Corporation (KESC) by the federal government. The plants will generate 2,000 MW of electricity. […]

Companies help workers save on gas costs

The breathtaking cost of gas has companies adopting programs to curb commuting costs and employees developing more economical alternatives to driving to work. Employers are taking action as average national gas prices persist above $3 a gallon. Nearly 90% of employees drive to work, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Thirteen percent of companies offer […]

Petraeus: Iraq ‘Challenges’ to Last for Years

Conditions in Iraq will not improve sufficiently by September to justify a drawdown of U.S. military forces, the top commander in Iraq said yesterday. Asked whether he thought the job assigned to an additional 30,000 troops deployed as the centerpiece of President Bush’s new war strategy would be completed by then, Gen. David H. Petraeus […]

Eye on Russia: Russia’s resurgence

Russia has staged a remarkable comeback in recent years. Gone are the days, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the Kremlin depended on Western handouts to keep its fragile economy afloat. (Special Report: Eye on Russia) The country has emerged as the world’s biggest energy producer. It supplies Western Europe with more than […]

Venezuela to upgrade heavy crude in the southern Orinoco Oil Belt

Venezuela is planning to build a new plant to upgrade heavy crude in southern Orinoco Belt, home to the country’s largest crude reserves, official sources from the industry said. Ruben Figuera, who is president of Ameriven firm, a business in the process of becoming a joint venture, told a delegation of experts from the Organization […]

Zoellick warns Venezuela is heading for trouble

Robert Zoellick, almost certain to be the next head of the World Bank, on Saturday took aim at Venezuela’s leftist president, Hugo Chavez, warning that his oil-fueled socialist revolution was headed for trouble. “It’s a country where economic problems are mounting, and as we’re seeing also on the political and press side it’s not moving […]

Gas Prices Continue To Fall

AAA says gas prices continue to fall from the record highs set on Memorial Day weekend. The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gas is $2.97, a near 17 cent drop from late May. Still, prices are higher than they were a year ago. CFNews13

China Coal Capacity Tops Goal; Energy-Saving in Doubt

China’s coal production capacity will exceed its output target by at least 16 percent by 2010, a development that would raise doubts about Beijing’s energy-efficiency plans, state media reported. It would also be a test for the country’s top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), which has been battling excess capacity in […]

India: Energy profile

India is a growing net importer of oil. According to Oil & Gas Journal (OGJ), India had 5.6 billion barrels of proven oil reserves as of January 2007, the second-largest amount in the Asia-Pacific region (behind China). IndiaEnergyPublisher

Air Force Hopes to Cut Oil’s Role in Fuel

The United States Air Force has decided to push development of a new type of fuel to power its bombers and fighters, mixing conventional jet fuel with fuels from nonpetroleum sources that could eventually limit military dependence on imported oil. The decision will open a contest between fuel refiners and other companies to produce a […]

Argentina’s energy crisis: Chile to the rescue by 2009

Growing natural gas supply cuts to Chile because of the Argentine energy crisis have caused the Chilean economy a half point GDP loss in 2006 and so far this year losses equivalent to 307 million US dollars to the manufacturing industry. However by 2009 the situation could have reversed to such an extent that the […]

‘Green’ energy boost for UK public sector

The UK public sector will have access to green electricity at no premium, thanks to an innovative new deal signed this week. The deal, worth around Sustainability targets call for central government departments to be sourcing at least 10% of their electricity from renewable sources by March 2008. Best of all, going greener won’t cost […]

The Clusterfuck Nation Chronicle

It seems to me you can call the situation in Iraq a lot of things, but it’s not a war. Not at this point, anyway. Call it an unsuccessful nation-building project, a failed occupation, a botched policing job, a monkey-in-the-middle clusterfuck. All the US political factions, from left to right, do the public a disservice […]

Muscovites remain in the dark about energy saving

Russia’s nascent interest in energy efficiency is driven less by a desire to go green than by the realization that energy demand could soon outstrip resources.Moscow’s growing energy hunger has been putting the aging electricity grid under pressure for some time. Russia is now the world’s fourth-largest consumer of electricity. In the last four years, […]

Gulf states will not be used for attack on Iran

Gulf Arab countries will not be used as a launch pad for any military attack on Iran, a powerful Saudi royal was quoted as saying on Sunday. Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz said Iran had no interest in striking its oil-producing Arab neighbours if it comes under attack from the United States. I […]

Kuwaiti firm issues tender for 615,000 bpd refinery

State-owned refiner Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) has launched a tender for its new 615,000 barrel-per-day Al Zour oil refinery, the company said on its website. In May, Kuwait doubled the planned budget to $12 billion for the plant, which would be one of the largest in the Middle East. Rapidly rising costs in the […]

OPEC argues world oil stocks “remain at comfortable levels”

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC continues to monitor global oil markets and is prepared to help mitigate any tightness but the level of 30 million barrels a day ensures that commercial oil stocks remain at comfortable levels for the time being, said OPEC’s Secretary General in Vienna.Following the release last week of OPEC’s […]

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