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Barry Smitherman, the Chairman for the Texas Railroad Commission, has said that the number of drilling permit applications being submitted in the lone star state…
Nuclear fusion is rather different from nuclear fission. Fission, is the reaction currently used in nuclear power plants, and produces dangerously radioactive elements; fusion is…
North America is the king of the fracking boom, enabling it to vastly boost domestic production of natural gas and crude oil, moving it one…
On the 11th of September, after nearly 13 years, and around $50 billion of investment, the North Caspian Operating Company finally began production at the…
Swedish furniture giant IKEA is now selling solar panels at its stores in the UK as part of the company’s renewable energy ambitions.For about $9,200…
A new study hits home how dangerous greenhouse gases are, claiming that aggressive reductions would not just alleviate climate change, but could avoid up to…
The fracking boom has been applauded by many as the saviour of the US, dragging its economy out of recession, and bringing in a new…
Last week, at the Labour Party’s annual conference, leader Ed Miliband announced that if victorious in the 2015 general elections, he will freeze energy bills.This…
A recent report, published in the journal Nature Communications by MIT postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, details the completely unexpected phenomenon discovered by MIT researchers that tiny…
After a year-long investigation into Gazprom, the Russian natural gas giant which monopolises the supply of natural gas to central and eastern Europe, the European…
For the first time in more than a decade China actually became a net exporter of fuel oil, however it seems that that remarkable achievement…
Climate change is real and poses a real threat to society. In many cases, such as the freak storms Sandy and Katrina, the severe droughts,…
Three recent oil discoveries in the Bay Du Nord off eastern Canada may be the answer to commercial viability for Norway’s Statoil in the region.…
Whilst the US government, led by President Barack Obama, is trying to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent by 2020, the US Army is…
With public pay phones a thing of the past, harkening to the days when Superman used them as a changing booth, the City of New…
In the struggle to use corn for biofuels without actually using corn for biofuels, US researchers are now paving the way for the use of…
Britain is likely to face a tight winter for natural gas as it finds itself with few alternative sources of cheap natural gas, forcing it…
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report on Friday, in which it stated that the evidence that climate change…
In what is being heralded as the most comprehensive study on livestock’s contribution to global warming to date, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)…
The answer to harnessing cost-effective solar power may be just around the corner. A team of researchers from the University of Alberta developed a cost-effective…