Petrol prices are at their highest in 18 months after BP and Caltex hiked prices by 5 cents a litre - the second price rise in a week.The rise put the price of 91 unleaded up to $1.82.9.Diesel prices also went up 3 cents a...
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Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina''s A$3.3 billion ($4.7 billion) bid for Arrow Energy may spur more takeovers of Australian producers of coal-bed gas, a growing source of supply for Asian energy importers.Eastern Star Gas, a coal-seam...
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Though not publicly acknowledged, many pubescent girls in the West African country of Cameroon are subjected to the practice of breast ironing, which involves massaging a child''s growing breasts with an object like a stone, hammer or spatula that has been heated over coals, until the breasts actually disappear. The practice of breast ironing is...
The extent to which tindustrialized nations are "outsourcing " their carbon emissions to developing countries was again highlighted today with the publication of a major new report revealing that goods and services imported into developed countries typically account for around a third of their total carbon footprint.
Wildlife officials have tried everything to keep sea lions from eating endangered salmon, dropping bombs that explode under water and firing rubber bullets and bean bags from shotguns and boats.
Take a huge oceanic catamaran, stick a hydroelectric turbine underneath it, and hitch it to a 6.5 million-square-foot parafoil flying nearly a mile in the air. That?s a Korean research team?s new proposal for generating gigawatts of clean energy.
Solar energy is plentiful. But is it practical?
krebsonsecurity writes "Organized cyber-criminal gangs stole $25 million in the 3rd quarter alone last year, by pilfering the online bank accounts of small to midsized businesses, the FDIC reported last week. In contrast, traditional bank robbers hauled just $9.4 million in 1,184 bank robberies during that same period, according to an analysis of FBI bank crime statistics by krebsonsecurity.com. From that story: ''The federal government sure publishes a lot more information about physical bank robberies that it makes available about online stick-ups. Indeed, the FBI''s bank crime stats are extraordinarily detailed. For example, they can tell you that in the 3rd quarter of last year, bank robbers were more likely to hold up their local branch between the hours of 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. on a Wednesday than at any other time or day of the week; they can tell you the number of tear gas and dye packs taken with the loot, the number of security cameras activated, the number of food stamps taken, even what percentage of suspected perpetrators had illegal drug habits at the time of the robberies. About the only thing the stats don''t tell you is what brand of jeans the perpetrators were wearing and whether the getaway car had cool vanity plates. What do we get about e-crime statistics from the federal government? One guy from the FDIC giving a speech at the RSA conference." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
chudnall notes a Technology Review story on a new gas engine injection system that promises increased efficiency of up to 50%. "The key is heating and pressurizing gasoline before injecting it into the combustion chamber, says Mike Rocke, Transonic''s vice president of business development. This puts it into a supercritical state that allows for very fast and clean combustion, which in turn decreases the amount of fuel needed to propel a vehicle. The company also treats the gasoline with a catalyst that ''activates'' it, partially oxidizing it to enhance combustion." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Water in Menindee irrigation storage was now near 599GL, and rising at 3 March.
Luckily people continue to imagine and design new ways to capitalize on the power of the wind. Let?s take a look at some of the ?standard? and not-so-standard ideas for catching the power of the wind..
Ferrari will offer hybrid versions of every model by 2013, says the supercar maker, cutting CO2 emissions by 35%.
A new study tracks CO2 emissions using data while accounting for imported and exported goods, and finds that some European countries are outsourcing up to half of their emissions. China is now the largest emitter of CO2 on the planet, as it powers a large industrial base primarily through the use of coal-fired power plants. However, many of those..
SYDNEY - Mining giant BHP Billiton says it has reached terms for much of its coking coal sales for 2010, involving switching to "shorter-term market based pricing"."BHP Billiton today announced it had reached terms for a significant...
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Production from the Maari oil field has pushed Cue Energy''s half-year profit to A$8.4 million ($12 million), an increase of 150 per cent from the previous corresponding period.Revenue increased 72 per cent to A$30.9 million in...
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RABarnes writes "Scientific American has posted an article about the political efforts of natural gas and electric utilities to limit the growth of wind-generated electricity. Although several of the points raised by the utilities and carbon-based generators are valid, the basic driver behind their efforts is that wind-generation has now successfully penetrated the wholesale electricity market. Wind was okay until it became a meaningful competitor to the carbon dioxide-producing entities. Among the valid points raised by the carbon-based generators are concerns about how the cost of electricity transmission are allocated and how power quality can be improved (wind generation — from individual sites — is hopelessly variable). But there are fixes for all of the concerns raised by the carbon-based entities and in almost all cases they have been on the other side of the question in the past." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
T he AEMO modelled carbon price causes generation from Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) technology to increase across the 20 year period''
Volumes of ICE Coal Futures in February was 85,840 lots;