ENERGY TECH - INTERN DAILY

Russia Eyes Crimea's Oil and Gas Reserves

Mar 19, 2014 (SPX)

According to Reuters , Crimea may nationalize oil and gas assets within its borders belonging to Ukraine, and sell them off to Russia. Crimea's Deputy Prime Min...

Battery that 'breathes' could power next-gen electric vehicles

Mar 18, 2014 (SPX)

Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) nearly doubled in 2013, but most won't take you farther than 100 miles on one charge. To boost their range toward a tantalizing...

Harnessing everyday motion to power mobile devices

Mar 18, 2014 (SPX)

Imagine powering your cell phone by simply walking around your office or rubbing it with the palm of your hand. Rather than plugging it into the wall, you becom...

Greenpeace sues Russia over Arctic Sunrise detention

Mar 17, 2014 (AFP)

Greenpeace is suing Russia before the European Court of Human Rights for detaining its members during a protest last year against Arctic drilling, the environme...

US Seals take control of rogue Libya oil ship: Pentagon

Mar 17, 2014 (AFP)

US Navy Seals boarded and took control of an oil tanker that had loaded crude at a rebel-held port in eastern Libya and escaped to sea, the Pentagon said Monday...

Scientists find new way to upgrade natural gas

Mar 14, 2014 (SPX)

America's current energy boom may take a new direction thanks to the discovery of a new way to turn raw natural gas into upgraded liquid alcohol fuel. In the Ma...

US ends BP contract ban

Mar 14, 2014 (AFP)

The United States announced Thursday an end to its ban on BP obtaining government contracts following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico....

scientists devise new, lower cost method to create more usable fuels

Mar 14, 2014 (SPX)

As the United States continues to lead the world in the production of natural gas, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) h...

Europe's resilience of natural gas networks during conflicts and crises probed with maths

Mar 14, 2014 (SPX)

Gas networks in Eastern European countries, such as Ukraine and Belarus are less resilient than the UK during conflicts and crises, according to new research fr...

Shale, the Last Oil and Gas Train

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

How much faith can we put in our ability to decipher all the numbers out there telling us the US is closing in on its cornering of the global oil market? There'...

Small Biomass Power Plants Could Help Rural Economies, Stabilize Grid

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

As energy costs rise, more Americans are turning to bioenergy to provide power to their homes and workplaces. Bioenergy is renewable energy made from organic so...

WELTEC Optimises Wastewater Plants

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

In the future, the anaerobic fermentation and utilisation of sludge from wastewater plants will play an increasingly important role. To ensure an economically a...

Oil prices mixed on US, China data

Mar 13, 2014 (AFP)

Oil prices were mixed Thursday as markets digested a batch of economic data from the United States and China, the world's two biggest consumers of energy. New Y...

Tanker escapes to sea with cargo of Libyan rebel oil

Mar 11, 2014 (AFP)

A North Korean-flagged tanker laden with oil from a rebel-held terminal in eastern Libya slipped the warships deployed to intercept it and escaped to sea on Tue...

Libya intercepts tanker loaded with rebel oil

Mar 10, 2014 (AFP)

Libyan authorities said they intercepted a North Korean-flagged tanker Monday which had loaded crude from a rebel-held eastern port, as the conflict over the co...

US researchers propose Earth's infrared radiation as renewable energy source

Mar 06, 2014 (XNA)

Infrared energy emitted from the Earth into space may be potentially harnessed as a renewable energy source in the future, U.S. researchers said Monday. Physici...

New Spy Technology to Spawn Oil Revolution

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

The future of oil exploration lies in new technology--from massive data-processing supercomputers to 4D seismic to early-phase airborne spy technology that can ...

York physicists pave the way for more energy efficient technology

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

An international team of scientists led by physicists from the University of York has paved the way for a new class of magnetic materials and devices with impro...

Environmentalists warn of Spain oil-drilling

Mar 06, 2014 (AFP)

Campaigners warned Thursday of environmental threats from new oil-prospecting projects off Spain's Balearic and Canary Islands, two major tourist destinations. ...

Battery-free technology brings gesture recognition to all devices

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

Mute the song playing on your smartphone in your pocket by flicking your index finger in the air, or pause your "This American Life" podcast with a small wave o...