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Until recently, geologists and scientists believed that hydrocarbons (oil and natural gas) were formed only from living microorganisms that were compressed in the upper layers of the Earth's crust, and heated with high temperatures from the upper mantle. Now, a new research comes to show that it may be, indeed, ... |
27 July 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Experts from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have recently released a new set of statistics, showing that the ratio of alternative energy to fossil fuels noticeably increased in 2008, as opposed to 2007. Wind farms, solar stations, geothermal plants and biofuels ... |
21 July 2009
08:44 GMT |
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has engaged in one of the largest scientific research initiatives of the last years, as it has begun to fund the construction of over 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers, to be errected all around America. One such institute will be built at Princeton University, wh... |
6 May 2009
14:11 GMT |
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One of the main goals in the field of hydrogen car research is the creation of a good fueling system. That is to say, a system that would allow travelers to fill their vehicles' fuel cells in less than 5 minutes, and then drive some 300 miles with a single charge. Making this happen is not as easy as it may seem... |
3 April 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Over the past few weeks, coal and natural gas companies have intensified their efforts to hinder the Australian government's plans, which call for the introduction of a carbon-trading scheme by 2010. Officials from these companies say that the new legislation, which is due to be voted in June, will cripple produ... |
2 April 2009
09:00 GMT |
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has finally come to its senses following its period of submission to political will during the Bush administration, and has finally put all the permits of mountaintop mining operators on hold, pending further investigation. As Bush left the White House, he granted his personal f... |
25 March 2009
07:38 GMT |
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More than 500,000 acres of land in the Mojave Desert are currently the target of extensive bidding on the part of renewable energy companies, which want to construct either solar power plants or wind farms here. However, their plans may be upset by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who said last Friday that the respective land ... |
25 March 2009
04:52 GMT |
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took a very important step in fighting global warming recently, when it forwarded a proposed finding to the White House, which stated that climate change and the greenhouse effect were threats to America's financial and health security. If the proposal is approved by ... |
24 March 2009
06:48 GMT |
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One of the main arguments brought by critics to renewable energy such as solar and wind power is that these methods of generating electricity are very expensive, and that continuing to produce the needed amounts of power from oil and coal is justified by the lower costs, especially in the crippled economy. Now, new a... |
16 March 2009
07:25 GMT |
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Big businesses and conservative politicians have again launched a campaign seeking to deter the Australian government from sticking to its 2010 deadline for the introduction of the carbon trading system. They say that the goal is unrealistic in the new economic downturn, and that the authorities should consider 2012 ... |
26 February 2009
08:16 GMT |
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Instead of continuing to survey the general population on the causes of global warming, researcher Peter Doran, an associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois in Chicago, working with Maggie Kendall Zimmerman, a former graduate student, asked over 10,200 experts from all arou... |
20 January 2009
03:30 GMT |
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A new green device, presented last week at the Consumers Electronics Show (CES) 2009, is capable of supplying 100 percent renewable electricity to iPods, cell phones, and other such mobile devices, via the use of electromagnetic induction. Basically, by simply walking, users can get a full charge on their gadgets in ... |
12 January 2009
03:20 GMT |
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Over the course of his term, President George W. Bush seemed to be spearheading a crusade to destroy the American environment, despite serious efforts on behalf of several organizations to stop him. He went on and removed regulations, changed decisions, and eliminated the necessity of scientific opinions from various... |
7 January 2009
07:58 GMT |
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The Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced on Wednesday that new estimates placed the amounts of CO2 that the United States would emit by 2030 below the previously-estimated level of 6,851 billion metric tons. According to the new numbers, the nation will most likely emit somewhere around 6.410 billion met... |
17 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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While there still are those who say that global warming is a hoax or an elaborate “plot” for some obscure reason, the reality is that the world is currently facing one of its biggest challenges since the last major extinction, and the United Nations warns that, if something is not done to repair the situa... |
16 December 2008
02:34 GMT |
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Approximately 90 days from now, LA inhabitants will have a chance to look over the plan that will make their city one of the most environmental-friendly on the face of the Earth. The project, called Solar LA, was announced on Monday by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who says that countless solar panels will be installed... |
5 December 2008
04:36 GMT |
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Obama's new security advisor, James Jones, who was appointed on Monday, already announced that he plans to introduce drastic changes in the way the United States perceive their energy dependency, saying that renewable energy offers enormous opportunities the federal government must take advantage as soon as poss... |
4 December 2008
11:02 GMT |
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The numbers of compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered cars has been slowly rising in Egypt, South America and Europe over the last few years, as people try to escape the burden of having to pay more and more money for gasoline or diesel. Plus, the gas offers a slightly cleaner alternative to fossil fuel, releasing very... |
2 December 2008
09:11 GMT |
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Rotterdam's Mississippi harbor was completely blocked during this weekend, as two Greenpeace ships, the Rainbow Warrior and the Beluga II, prevented coal shipments on their way to the Netherlands from reaching their destination. The move was saluted by other environmental organizations as well. They said that th... |
17 November 2008
02:34 GMT |
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The International Energy Agency (IEA) announced that, most likely, coal would remain the world's top energy source for the next couple of decades, until 2030. The report predicted continued increases in coal usage worldwide, but especially in non OPEC countries, such as China. By 2015, electrical current produce... |
14 November 2008
10:01 GMT |
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Environmental activists suffered another defeat recently, as ballot results showed that the states of California and Colorado rejected enacting laws that would have regulated the use of electrical energy and would have forced utility companies to produce their energy from renewable sources, or to only purchase electr... |
14 November 2008
06:30 GMT |
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Increasing carbon emissions from power plants relying on fossil fuels for generating electrical current have prompted utilities companies to try and combine both polluting and clean energy techniques in a single facility. As a result, the Electric Power Research Institute will outfit two natural gas-powered plants in... |
12 November 2008
06:27 GMT |
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Our ever-increasing demand for electrical energy may be our downfall as a civilization, energy economists announced in IEA's report 2008 World Energy Outlook. More and more burnt fossil fuel means increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, which in turn trap sunlight and create the warming effect ... |
7 November 2008
03:40 GMT |
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The idea of rich, developed countries paying poorer nations annual sums of money for the protection of the rain forests is not a new one, and international officials have been considering the pros and cons of this kind of measures for quite some time now. Recently, Prince Charles, speaking on behalf of the United Kin... |
6 November 2008
14:41 GMT |
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The development the solar industry underwent could now turn against it, as the economical climate prompts more and more investors to withdraw their funds from ongoing projects. The supply of solar cells, panels, and other similar installations, is already higher than the demand, and the economy forces banks to skyroc... |
6 November 2008
05:35 GMT |
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With the coming of the new administration, the "green" community is now turning towards President-elect Barack Obama and the representatives of the Democratic Party, for new legislation on the matter, as well as for increased government financial support for renewable projects. Obama has already pledged to invest som... |
6 November 2008
03:27 GMT |
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The challenges brought first by the 21st century are thoroughly related to the amounts of energy humankind consumes. With numerous power plants coming on-line every week, most of which are powered by coal, the energy output increases, while, at the same time, polluting the environment around each of us. It's pre... |
5 November 2008
06:46 GMT |
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The Chinese official said on Thursday (October 30th) that the nation had no intention of reducing its enormous yearly carbon output anytime soon. Instead, he said that the largest developing country would push for the introduction of efficient pollution-management methods, such as carbon traps and new filtering syste... |
3 November 2008
07:53 GMT |
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The current state of the global economy has evolved in such a manner that oil prices, which reached as much as 147 dollars per barrel about three months ago, have now been cut in half by decreased demand. The same level of production implies that more oil is stocked by distributors, instead of being sold. Lower deman... |
30 October 2008
06:24 GMT |
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Intel Capital has recently invested millions of dollars into various Chinese firms, dealing with renewable energy and alternative power sources. In fact, the corporation has allotted some 500 million dollars in project funds to be invested in China. The money will go to companies dealing with capturing solar energy a... |
29 October 2008
04:34 GMT |
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The European Union seems pretty determinate in its struggle against fossil fuel, as evidenced by the enthusiasm that has overwhelmed the scientific community of the "Old Continent" over the past couple of years. Scientists from different countries and organizations are beginning to draw attention to the fact that a s... |
28 October 2008
08:27 GMT |
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According to the latest estimates, China is the world's largest producer and consumer of coal, having already brought, or planning to bring on-line a large number of coal-powered power plants, in the nation's rich Northern coal basin. But with higher rates of consumption come very high risks, translated in ... |
28 October 2008
01:15 GMT |
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The conclusion was presented to the world on Monday, by the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) and the Greenpeace Organization, which proposed 2090 as the last target for complete renunciation of fossil fuels, including oil, natural gases and coal. The study estimates some $18 trillion savings in future fossil ... |
27 October 2008
08:13 GMT |
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Long-term investigations of the Brazilian government finally paid off, when authorities discovered the largest oil deposits in recent years, off the coast of the country. All areas contained within Brazil's 200 miles of sea, and even some that were beyond that limit, were searched for fossil fuels. In 2007, the ... |
22 October 2008
08:06 GMT |
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Former U.S. presidency candidate Wesley Clark held a speech at the Solar Power International conference, held in San Diego on Tuesday, October 14, where he emphasized the importance of America reducing its oil imports, which currently send approximately $500 million across the borders, into countries that may be supp... |
15 October 2008
08:52 GMT |
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Starting 2012, the U.S. military plans to begin construction of one of the largest solar-powered electrical plants in the country, which is to be finished and fully operational by 2014. The plant will generate an enormous 500 megawatts of energy, several hundred times more than the largest current such facility, that... |
13 October 2008
04:41 GMT |
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The rate at which fossil fuel is currently consumed is mind-numbing. Out of the 500 quadrillion BTUs of energy all nations consume, more than 85 percent, namely 430 quadrillion BTUs, are obtained from oil (40 percent), coal (22 percent) and natural gases (24 percent). Renewable sources of energy plus nuclear plants o... |
10 October 2008
06:40 GMT |
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For the last two centuries or so people have been continuously emitting large quantities of carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere, a careless action currently considered the number one factor triggering the global warming phenomenon. The burning of fossil fuels isn't going to stop any time soon, which is l... |
16 July 2008
05:45 GMT |
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The small town of Rock Port is currently the first community in the United States to be powered 100 percent with energy generated by wind turbines. Its 1,400 habitants consume about 13 million kWh of electric energy every year and since April the town has been powered only with electricity provided by the Loess Hills... |
16 July 2008
03:45 GMT |
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According to the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, quoting the Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee, Germany will build up to 30 offshore wind farms by the end of 2030 in order to increase the contribution of the renewable energy sources to the total amount of power produced by the country, thus cutting a significan... |
7 July 2008
04:08 GMT |
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Water surfaces, oceans and seas in particular, are natural sinkholes for carbon dioxide gas. And it just so happens that man made sure that Earth's atmosphere has plenty of carbon dioxide, which is absorbed into water, thus making it more acidic in the respective areas. This in turn affects the marine life such ... |
9 June 2008
04:43 GMT |
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The incredible amount of energy released by the Sun on a daily basis in the African deserts, if harnessed, could not only provide the whole African continent with electrical energy but might also be enough to power some parts of the European continent as well. Calculations show that the Sun produces about 1.5 barrels... |
6 June 2008
06:38 GMT |
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Pseudoscience or finally the real thing? Well, that still remains to be seen, but if it indeed works then mankind will be able to generate large amounts of energy at room temperature without worrying about waste or fuel. In the last decades, researchers have been frantically trying to demonstrate that cold fusion is ... |
27 May 2008
11:14 GMT |
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Think of a conventional wind turbine. You will most likely imagine a giant platform towering several tens of meters in the air on which a 15 meter long blade spins wildly. It doesn't seem to be very practical, does it? That's because it's not. The solution may be in scalable wind turbine designs, which... |
27 May 2008
04:41 GMT |
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Petrol price is now beating every record possible and there's no sign that its ascension will stop anytime soon. On the other hand, alternative renewable energy sources seem to remain inefficient. Nonetheless, researchers argue that, in the next decade or so, fossil fuel dependency will be a thing of the past. "... |
9 April 2008
09:43 GMT |
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How do you make hydrogen more solid than a solid? It doesn't make any sense! It might not make sense to us, however researchers from the National Institute of Standard and Technology's Center for Neutron Research could have found the answer in what they call metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs for short. They... |
3 April 2008
09:55 GMT |
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It's official, BMW's Hydrogen 7 prototype is world's cleanest vehicle! Tests conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory reveal that the hydrogen-powered engine of the BMW Hydrogen 7 surpasses that of the super-ultra low-emission vehicles, a standard for low emission v... |
31 March 2008
04:25 GMT |
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Scientists say hydrogen is the way to go in the future. There's plenty of hydrogen all around us, it is completely environmentally friendly and can provide the energy required to power our cars. No sweat, we'll be having fuel cell cars in no time! However, while harnessing its power would be no problem, sto... |
10 March 2008
11:12 GMT |
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Would converting cars that run on petrol into biofuel propelled ones finally save us from global warming, or not? No chance, say environmental researchers after completing a study on converting biowaste into biofuel. And to top that up, biofuel conversion could even worsen the emission of greenhouse gases. This is mo... |
8 February 2008
09:37 GMT |
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The first ever public electric power distribution system appeared in the late 19th century and mostly supplied direct currents, with multiple output voltages, or under the form of alternating current, which reverses the polarity of the current every 20 milliseconds. However, the energy demand and the advantages that ... |
28 December 2007
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