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. [...]
By LES BLUMENTHAL - McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has proposed a 25 percent cut in the research and development budget for one of the most promising renewable energy sources in the Northwest - wave and tidal power.
At the same time the White House sought an 82 percent increase in solar [...]
TERENGGANU: Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) targets to commission the first nuclear power plant in Malaysia by 2025 if the government decides to include nuclear as an acceptable energy option.
Head of nuclear energy unit TNB, Dr Mohd Zamzam Jaafar said TNB cannot ignore nuclear energy amid the uncertain future supply and volatile fossil fuel prices as [...]
PERTH (Reuters) – Oil prices fell toward $61 a barrel on Monday, shedding some of the previous session’s gains, on growing risk aversion after North Korea said it had successfully conducted a nuclear test.
Still, prices hovered around a six-month high, as a weak U.S. dollar and expectations the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) [...]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Coal producer Alliance Resource Partners’ fourth-quarter income fell 36 percent on the loss of a tax credit and expenses that outpaced revenue growth.
Alliance said Wednesday it earned $25.2 million, or 32 cents per partnership unit, in the quarter. The Tulsa, Okla.-based company earned $39.9 million, or 76 cents per unit, in [...]
by Adrian Addison
MORONG, Philippines (AFP) – The Bataan nuclear power plant stands as a monument to the greed and corruption of the years the Philippines spent under strongman president Ferdinand Marcos.
It was originally meant to cost around 500 million dollars, but the final price tag of 2.3 billion dollars was only paid off in [...]
A consortium of governments will build a groundbreaking fusion power plant in France for a price in excess of €5 billion. After decades of discouraging setbacks, plasma physics has made jaw-dropping recent progress. Could it save the world?
Something went wrong during reactor experiment number 23,995. The fusion process started, continued for a second, but suddenly [...]
By Marc Levy Associated Press Writer
HOUSTON, Pa. — Illuminated drilling rigs glow for miles from atop flattened hills when night falls in this rolling farm and coal country in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Tanker trucks back up traffic on two-lane roads, and Texans wearing heavy coats and muddy boots fill Shelley’s Pike Diner at lunch as land owners [...]
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s government and four foreign companies have signed an agreement to sell natural gas from offshore fields to neighboring China, state media said Monday.
The agreement, signed last Wednesday, was the first for sales of gas from Myanmar’s northwestern offshore fields.
The New Light of Myanmar newspaper said South Korea’s Daewoo International and [...]
South Korea today announced a massive investment plan to build more power plants, including 12 new nuclear reactors in the next four years, to meet growing energy demand.
It plans to spend 37 trillion won ($28.5 billion) between 2009 and 2022 constructing 12 commercial reactors and 19 thermoelectric power plants, the ministry of knowledge economy said [...]
