ENERGY TECH - RADAR DAILY

Oil firms evacuate as storm heads for Gulf of Mexico

Aug 24, 2012 (AFP)

Oil and gas operators in the Gulf of Mexico braced Friday for Tropical Storm Isaac as the strengthening storm barreled toward Haiti on a northwest track that th...

Teaching a microbe to make fuel

Aug 23, 2012 (SPX)

A humble soil bacterium called Ralstonia eutropha has a natural tendency, whenever it is stressed, to stop growing and put all its energy into making complex ca...

Push on for efficient hydrogen production

Aug 23, 2012 (UPI)

British scientists say they have produced hydrogen, a renewable energy source, from water using an inexpensive catalyst under industrially relevant conditions. ...

New eBike Battery Line Maximizes Drive Range

Aug 23, 2012 (SPX)

AllCell Technologies has launched two new standard electric bike batteries with exceptional capacity and drive range. The 48 volt batteries come in 15 and 20 am...

The Building as an Energy Storage Device

Aug 23, 2012 (SPX)

In 2020, if all goes according to plan, the state of California will get 33 percent of its electricity from renewable power, including solar and wind, as requir...

Canada's Africa Oil increases estimates

Aug 23, 2012 (UPI)

Canada's Africa Oil Corp. increased its estimated resources for its Kenyan and Ethiopian concessions. Africa Oil Corp. commissioned British accounting firm Gaff...

Chavez unveils $130 billion oil expansion

Aug 23, 2012 (UPI)

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, seeking re-election Oct. 7, says he plans to spend $130 billion over six years to double the country's daily crude oil output....

Oil rises in Asia on China stimulus hopes

Aug 23, 2012 (AFP)

Oil prices surged in Asia on Thursday as hopes of a Chinese stimulus soared after manufacturing activity in the world's largest energy consumer fell to a nine-m...

Boat in China-Japan island dispute returns to Hong Kong

Aug 22, 2012 (AFP)

A boat which carried a group of pro-China activists to disputed islands in the East China Sea last week, leading to their detention by Japan and anti-Tokyo prot...

Boon to fusion: Scientist finds new way to predict heat layer troublemaker

Aug 22, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers at a recent worldwide conference on fusion power have confirmed the surprising accuracy of a new model for predicting the size of a key barrier to f...

Constructive conflict in the superconductor

Aug 22, 2012 (SPX)

Whether a material conducts electricity without losses is not least a question of the right temperature. In future it may be possible to make a more reliable pr...

Nigerian oil workers in nationwide strike

Aug 22, 2012 (UPI)

Nigeria's capital Abuja has been experiencing fuel scarcities since the country's petroleum workers went on strike a week ago. Now the industrial action begun b...

Common metals promise electricity bounty

Aug 21, 2012 (UPI)

Less-expensive solar technology using common metals could cover America's rooftops and supply a significant part of the country's electricity, scientists say. W...

Australia sees China chance in Chevron gas exit

Aug 21, 2012 (AFP)

Australian officials on Tuesday welcomed Chevron's decision to bow out of Woodside Petroleum's massive Browse liquefied natural gas project as a chance for Chin...

UA Engineering Professor Uses Aerospace Materials to Build Endless Green Pipeline

Aug 21, 2012 (SPX)

Mo Ehsani, Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the University of Arizona, has designed a new, lightweight underground pipe he says could transform the pi...

China's CNOOC H1 profit down 19%

Aug 21, 2012 (AFP)

Chinese state-owned energy giant CNOOC Tuesday said its first-half net profit fell 19 percent year-on-year amid rising costs and a drop in production after the ...

COMAC of China, Boeing Open Energy Conservation Technology Center

Aug 20, 2012 (SPX)

Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) and Boeing has opened the Boeing-COMAC Aviation Energy Conservation and Emissions Reductions Technology Center, a col...

Japan's island disputes show malaise: analysts

Aug 20, 2012 (AFP)

Tokyo's seeming fixation with squabbles over the outposts of its former empire are symptomatic of a foreign policy drift as Japan struggles to find its place in...

US says oil firms should respect Baghdad government

Aug 20, 2012 (AFP)

The United States said Monday that oil companies should not bypass Iraq's central government after authorities in the autonomous Kurdish north signed dozens of ...

Future increases in US natural gas exports and domestic prices may not be as large as thought

Aug 20, 2012 (SPX)

Amid policy debate over potential liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the United States, a new paper from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Poli...