While Germany tries to get out of coal, China approved nearly $6.7 billion worth of new coal mining projects in 2018 and production increased 5.2% to 3.55 billion tons.
A set of technologies that is expected to have its first results four years from now is designed to resolve one of the world's greatest oil and gas exploration challenges today: carbon dioxide (CO2)...
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Austria and Germany has shown that introducing environmental noise to a line of ions can lead to enhanced transport of energy across...
For homeowners that want to go green, but have trouble figuring out how to do it, Palmetto Clean Technologies has the answer. The company has an army of salespeople to pitch the benefits of solar...
(Reuters) – Employees at French oil and gas giant Total SA have been told it is moving its trading operations from London to Geneva in September in a...
The Green New Deal, a bundle of proposed policies that would combat climate change, create green jobs and address economic inequities, is eliciting the usual partisan debate over what to do about...
Global energy demand will surge by a third over the next two decades on advancing prosperity, but Indian demand growth will eclipse that of flagging giant China, Britain's BP forecast Thursday.
Mail Online
| 2/14/2019
| Victoria Bell For Mailonline
Direct measurements of how energy is transferred from chaotic electromagnetic fields in space to the solar wind have been taken for the first time, experts say. It was thought that a process called...
Mail Online
| 2/14/2019
| Tim Sculthorpe, Deputy Political Editor For Mailonline
Inflation plunged to 1.8 per cent in January the lowest rate for two years, official statistics revealed today. It is the first time since January 2017 the pace of price rises is below the official...
Power-strapped North Korea is exploring ambitious alternative energy sources — tidal power and coal-based synthetic fuels — that could greatly improve living standards and reduce its reliance on oil...
The innovation, the result of a patent deposited in 2018, consists of injecting the CO2 and CH4 that comes from wells during oil extraction into salt caverns as a way to reduce the amount of carbon...
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) – The European Union has convened a wide-ranging industrial group to work on promoting the euro and fighting the monopoly of the U.S. dollar in oil and commodities trading,...
The device costs less than conventional designs, has fewer moving parts, and is made of durable materials. It is designed to be incorporated into existing ocean energy systems and can convert wave...
A new cut-price wave energy device that could help power homes and businesses is being developed by experts at a Scottish university. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh have been working...
As tech companies continue their race to control the smart home, a promising energy startup has raised a round of funding from traditionally-tech and strategic investors, for a geothermal solution...
Last month, the polar vortex brought below-zero temperatures to the Midwest and Great Plains. Over 220 million Americans experienced below-freezing temperatures across the lower-48 states, and about...
(Reuters) – Canada’s main stock index opened higher on Tuesday, lifted by energy stocks as oil prices surged on OPEC-led production cuts. At 9:30 a.m. ET (14:30 GMT), the Toronto Stock Exchange’s...
The findings are published in the February issue of Environmental Research. The Colorado Home Energy Efficiency and Respiratory Health (CHEER) study evaluated the impact of air-exchange rates on...
The novel wind and solar energy-harvesting flags have been developed using flexible piezoelectric strips and flexible photovoltaic cells. Piezoelectric strips allow the flag to generate power...
Quickly transferring energy from one place to another—without loss—could fundamentally change solar panels and computers. Materials made from long chains of tiny particles, or nanoparticles, show...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has made a surprise visit to the World Government Summit in Dubai. Perry took the stage Sunday to announce a robotics competition...
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and US Senator Ed Markey (D-Ma.) speak during a press conference to announce Green New Deal legislation. A charismatic Barack Obama peddled the...
A new type of electric vehicle power using "refillable" technology has taken another giant leap in advancing alternative energy with testing that shows it could provide enough energy to run a car...
A research team led by Tohoku University in Japan has developed new materials for supercapacitors with higher voltage and better stability than other materials. Their research was recently published...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – The fire that killed 10 young footballers at Flamengo’s training ground in Rio de Janeiro was caused by a spike of electricity that led to a fire in an air conditioning...
Green plants capture light that spans the visible solar spectrum, and while a broad spectral range is required for sufficient absorption, the process requires energy to be funneled rapidly and...
BY: Haris Alic Democratic speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) has appointed to the special committee on climate change members who have all received significant backing from the energy...
When local residents feel the planning process for building wind turbines is fair and open, their perceptions of the often-controversial energy source remain steady or improve with time, according...
BY: Andrew Kugle Ernest Moniz, former energy secretary for President Barack Obama, weighted in on the newly introduced Green New Deal during a Friday interview with NPR, calling the plan...
BY: Elizabeth Harrington The "Green New Deal" will produce the opposite of its intended goal of reducing carbon emissions by stifling energy innovation, according to an expert at the American...
Climate Change activists may be cheering the Green New Deal unveiled on Thursday, but organizations that represent the millions of men and women who work in the domestic energy sector are not...
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s trade deficit widened last year as higher oil prices inflated the energy import bill, offsetting an increase in exports, the customs data showed on Thursday.
Mail Online
| 2/7/2019
| Sean Poulter Consumer Affairs Editor
Eleven million households supposedly protected by the Government’s energy price cap will be told today that bills are set to go up by around £100 a year. The cap on standard variable tariffs (SVTs)...
Pacemakers typically need new batteries every 5 to 10 years. In the future, people with pacemakers might not have to have surgery to replace the battery that runs the device.
Former Vice President and climate crusader Al Gore criticized President Donald Trump for touting booming oil and natural gas production during his State of the Union address Tuesday night.
Separating gases such as hydrogen from larger compounds in the air is an important part of manufacturing and energy production. But it's also an expensive process, requiring large amounts of energy...
Energy Secretary Rick Perry has been named the “designated survivor” for Tuesday night’s State of the Union address. Perry, who used to serve as the governor of Texas, became the head of the...
“We have unleashed a revolution in American Energy – the United States is now the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world,” Trump said. “And now, for the first time in 65 years, we...
“This evening, President Donald Trump reminded us that the state of American energy is strong. America’s economy is booming, creating a thriving environment for innovation and energy development.
Last week, California utility PG&E filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the face of an estimated US$30 billion of possible liabilities related to the disastrous California wildfires in...
Using a dime-sized invention developed by engineers at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, the kinetic energy of the heart can be converted into electricity to power a wide-range of...
Buildings, trees and other structures in urban areas cause shading of solar modules, which strongly affects the performance of a PV system. Accurate assessment of this performance, and the related...
Many countries have passed environmental laws to preserve natural ecosystems. Although the regulations seem to have improved preservation efforts, they may have had unintended consequences in energy...
A bright fireball blazed a smoky, steamy trail across the Florida sky Friday afternoon as it rushed to its final fate over Vinales, Cuba. Moments later, a loud sonic boom preceded the meteor...
Selling the idea of a “What We Do in the Shadows” TV series is fairly easy. The truth is, if you enjoyed the film of the same name from Taika Waititi, then it should serve as no surprise that you’re...
Finding and improving renewable energy sources is becoming increasingly important. One strategy to generate energy is breaking water molecules (H2O) apart in an electrochemical reaction known as...
Last November, large sections of California became a hellscape as wildfires devastated areas that have suffered drought conditions, overgrown brush, and environmental restrictions that prohibited...
This week’s bitter cold had the potential to be deadly. But thanks to reliable forms of energy like coal, natural gas and nuclear power, it wasn’t. Lawmakers considering doubling Minnesota’s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Energy Department on Friday told staff they are banned from taking part in foreign recruitment programs as the agency seeks to stop China and other countries from...
Mail Online
| 2/1/2019
| Thomas Austin-morgan For Mailonline
Europe is expected to have more than 84 million smart homes by the end of 2022, experts claim. This prediction, if it comes true, will see the amount of so-called 'smart homes' on the continent...