Having generated electricity as a plant operator, plant manager and vice president in three mid-sized electric power companies for a long career, I wish to express a few facts about using biomass (wood) as a fuel for large boilers (”Trees better alternative to coal” Hattiesburg American, Jan. 6).
There are several mid-sized boilers in service using [...]
By RENEE SCHOOF - McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — With global warming melting the Arctic’s eons-old ice at an alarming rate, shipping and oil companies are looking ahead at how to exploit the new open waters.
For the past 30 years, the summer Arctic icepack has been shrinking. In 2007, the melt reached record levels. This past summer, [...]
By KIM BARTO - Bulletin Staff Writer
A geologist made a pitch for mining a Pittsylvania County uranium deposit on Tuesday, saying it would create hundreds of local jobs and promote energy independence.
The Coles Hill deposit in Chatham, with 119 million pounds of untapped uranium ore, is believed to be the largest trove in the country [...]
By MOHAMED SHEIKH NOR and BARBARA SURK, Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Pirates who seized a Saudi supertanker loaded with $100 million in crude oil anchored the ship within sight of impoverished Somali fishing villages Tuesday, while the U.S. and other naval forces decided — for now — against intervention.
Saudi Arabia said Tuesday that it [...]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The U.S. Navy says Somali pirates have hijacked a Saudi-owned oil tanker off the Kenyan coast.
Lt. Nathan Christensen, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, says the pirates hijacked the vessel Saturday. The tanker is owned by Saudi oil company Aramco and was sailing under a Liberian flag.
Christensen says [...]
By Julie Belschner
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY — Lowering the cost of gasoline pumped into a car isn’t likely to happen anytime soon.
But the number of miles a car travels on a gallon of gas could increase drastically through something as simple as the heat produced by the automobile’s exhaust.
Two-thirds of a car’s fuel is emitted unused [...]
