IF I had a bumper sticker, it would say ‘CAM plants do it in the dark’,” says scientist Joe Holtum. “It’s odd, because you think: ‘Where do they get the energy from?’”
Being plants, what crassulacean acid metabolism species do is photosynthesis, but they do it with a nocturnal twist. Some are as familiar as pineapples [...]
ScienceDaily (June 15, 2009) — In the future, will wind power tapped by high-flying kites light up New York? A new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution and California State University identifies New York as a prime location for exploiting high-altitude winds, which globally contain enough energy to meet world demand 100 times over. [...]
French president says he wants to help UAE stabilize world oil prices
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged both oil-rich nations and industrial powers Tuesday to work to stabilize world oil prices, noting that the global economy cannot afford major price swings while it works to recover from the [...]
JOHANNESBURG, April 23 (Reuters) - Kenya’s leading power producer is seeking a total of $5 billion over the next 10 years to develop the largely untapped geothermal potential in east Africa’s biggest economy to boost power supply.
Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) (KEGN1.NR), which generates about 80 percent of the country’s power mainly from hydro sources, [...]
By Vision Reporter
UGANDA will not export its uranium until it develops its capacity to produce nuclear energy, President Yoweri Museveni has disclosed.
Addressing the 12th ordinary summit of the African Union in Addis Ababa yesterday, Museveni said even if the whole of Africa’s hydro potential was developed, this would create only 300,000 megawatts. He said the [...]
One Planet
Vera Kwakofi
BBC World Service
Africa is a continent of darkness and is desperately in need of power.
Only one in three of Africa’s 700 million people have electricity - and in the countryside only one in ten has light at the flick of a switch.
For many people, solar energy is the most obvious route [...]
By Matthew Green in Lagos
Nigeria has been forced to cut exports of liquefied natural gas, a key source of energy for Europe, after Royal Dutch Shell closed a key facility in the Niger Delta to repair damage caused by thieves.
Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG), which says it delivers about 10 per cent of all world [...]
DUBAI, UAE, Nov 19, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — Petrolium Oil Alliance Inc. announced it has opened new offices for the company and its U.S. subsidiary PetrOil Inc. formerly CybeRecord, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: CYRD), at King Fahad Road, Oroba Center Suite 4042, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Telephone: +966553020240. The action was taken as [...]
ALGIERS (AFP) – Algeria and Argentina signed an agreement Monday to boost cooperation over civil nuclear energy as part of Argentine President Cristina Kirchner’s tour of northern Africa.
The energy deal was signed by Algerian Energy and Mining Minister Chakib Khelil and Argentina’s Minister for Federal Planning Julio de Vido.
Meanwhile, Kirchner met with Algerian President Abdelaziz [...]
LAGOS (AFP) – Gunmen captured an oil firm vessel and its crew in a weekend raid off the shores of Nigeria’s volatile southern Niger Delta region, an army spokesman announced Monday.
“Militants suspected to be from Tompolo’s camp seized one MV Thou Galaxy vessel on the Gbaramatu waterway along Escravos (River),” Lieutenant-Colonel Rabe Abubakar, the military [...]
