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5/3/12
| News
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists are exploring whether a common soil bacterium can be engineered to produce liquid transportation fuels much more efficiently than the ways in which advanced biofuels are made today. The process would be powered only by hydrogen and electricity. The goal is a biofuel—or electrofuel, as this new approach is called—that doesn’t require photosynthesis.
Apr 20 | News
According
to a recent report from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S.
commercial building owners could save an average of 38% on their heating
and cooling bills if they installed a handful of energy efficiency
controls that make their heating, ventilation and air conditioning
(HVAC) systems more energy efficient.
Apr 20 | News
Theoretically,
a solar cell can achieve 33.5% efficiency under ideal conditions, but
until now researchers had hit only 26%. This past year, a company called
Alta Devices acted on the theory that emission and voltage go
hand-in-hand by creating solar cell that acts like a light-emitting
diode. Its prototype broke the record, achieving 28.3% efficiency.
7 hours ago | News
BP Products North America Inc. has agreed to install $400 million in new air pollution controls at its northwestern Indiana oil refinery and pay an $8 million fine under a deal announced Wednesday with the government and environmental groups.The oil giant agreed to the fine to settle...
20 hours ago | News
Gasoline prices this summer could stay relatively steady provided that
an
already-tense Middle East doesn't flare up and nothing else happens to
disrupt
supplies, a Purdue
University economist
says.
22 hours ago | News
A new study by civil engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows that using stiffer pavements on the nation's roads could reduce vehicle fuel consumption by as much as 3%—a savings that could add up to 273 million barrels of crude oil per year, or $15.6 billion at today's oil prices. This would result in an accompanying annual decrease in carbon dioxide emissions of 46.5 million metric tons.
May 23 | News
Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm didn't wait long to make a nearly $1 million donation to a group supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after he became one of Romney's top energy advisers in March. Just weeks after Hamm joined the Romney campaign, he gave $985,000 to a...
May 22 | News
Plans
to create the world's first carbon-neutral higher-speed locomotive were
unveiled this week by the Coalition for Sustainable Rail, which has the goal
of proving the viability of solid biofuel—torrefied biomass—and modern
steam locomotive technology. The first step in those plans is to break
the world speed record for steam trains.
May 22 | News
A federal magistrate has scheduled a hearing on a former BP engineer's request for permission to travel freely throughout the U.S. while he awaits a trial on charges he deleted text messages about the oil company's response to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.U.S. Magistrate Daniel...
May 22 | News
State environmental regulators say methane had to be vented from a pair of private drinking wells near a northern Pennsylvania natural gas drilling well.The Department of Environmental Protection says gas bubbling has also been reported in wetlands near the homes in LeRoy Township, Bradford...
May 21 | News
The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, under fire for what fellow commissioners called an intimidating, even bullying style, announced his resignation Monday.NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko said in a written statement that it was the right time to step down, adding that he hoped his...
May 21 | News
A Pennsylvania company will invest $380 million to expand natural gas pipelines in the state.Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P., of Radnor, said Monday that some of the expansions to its Lycoming County pipeline will begin in the next two weeks and be finished later this year. Other parts of...
May 21 | News
A materials scientist at Michigan
Technological University
has discovered a chemical reaction that not only eats up the greenhouse
gas
carbon dioxide, it also creates something useful. And, by the way, it
releases
energy.
