Decades of federal dollars helped fuel gas boom
Charleston Daily Mail Sun, 23 Sep 2012 10:39 AM PDT
PITTSBURGH (AP) - It sounds like a free-market success story: a natural gas boom created by drilling company innovation, delivering a vast new source of cheap energy without the government subsidies that solar and wind power demand."The free market... |
China Shipping to go shopping for supertankers
Business Times Sun, 23 Sep 2012 10:34 AM PDT
STATE-OWNED China Shipping is planning to order up to 20 new supertankers for the fleet of a joint venture aimed at giving Beijing more control over its energy supply chain but which will add to the vessel glut in the struggling freight market. |
Data Centers Waste a Ridiculously Massive Amount of Energy [Data Centers]
Gizmodo Sun, 23 Sep 2012 10:16 AM PDT
# datacenters There is a lot of data out there, and more is being created every day. It takes a lot of resources to keep it around, and make sure that you and everyone else can access what they want, when they want, with minimal downtime. Naturally this takes a lot of energy, but the New York Times looked into exactly how much. It's a ridiculous amount . More » |
Last-ditch bid to save mine jobs
Timaru Herald Sun, 23 Sep 2012 10:13 AM PDT
Workers from Solid Energy's Spring Creek mine will march on Parliament tomorrow in "one last throw of the dice" to save it. |
Boost for carbon capture from new non-toxic absorber
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Sun, 23 Sep 2012 10:07 AM PDT
LONDON (Reuters) - Researchers have created a new material that could solve some of the problems holding back projects to combat global warming by capturing and burying carbon emitted from power stations. The material, made from aluminum nitrate salt, cheap organic materials and water, is non-toxic and requires less energy to strip out the carbon when it becomes saturated, the scientists said. ... |
Egypt said preparing coupon system to cut energy subsidies
Reuters via Yahoo! Maktoob News Sun, 23 Sep 2012 10:03 AM PDT
* Cooking gas, petrol and diesel subsidies to be targeted * Energy subsidies eating up a qtr of all state spending * Govt to move cautiously to avoid sparking inflation CAIRO, Sept 23 (Reuters) - The government faced a toughchallenge to implement a coupon plan designed to cut massiveenergy subsidies which eat up around a quarter of governmentspending, Egypt's oil minister was quoted as saying on ... |
Wyoming, Alaska top list of states that use most energy
MSNBC Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:56 AM PDT
In 2010, the United States used roughly 97.7 quadrillion Btu of energy, up from roughly 95 quadrillion in 2009. To put that in perspective, the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates global consumption at roughly 500 quadrillion Btu. Effectively, the U.S. |
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