U.S. consumers will pay record prices for gasoline this spring, with national monthly pump costs peaking near $3.50 per gallon when the busy driving season begins, the government's top energy forecasting agency said.
The fastest-growing bet in the oil market these days is that the price of crude will double to $200 a barrel by the end of the year.
But most of the world's major fields, found decades ago, are in decline. The "easy oil" has all been found, leading oil companies and producer nations to search for ever more difficult-to-tap fields....
Crude oil prices soared to $100 a barrel Wednesday for the first time, reaching that milestone amid an unshakeable view that global demand for oil and petroleum products will outstrip supplies.
"We are aiming to make solar power stations up to 10MW in size. They can be up and running in six to nine months compared to 10 years or more for coal-powered stations and 15 years for nuclear plants."
"We are aiming to make solar power stations up to 10MW in size. They can be up and running in six to nine months compared to 10 years or more for coal-powered stations and 15 years for nuclear plants."
Once the factory they built in San Jose is up to full production capacity, it will be cranking out more solar panels than every other U.S. plant combined -- 430 megawatts worth.
Watch what happens when you harness the extreme efficiency of the Sterling engine with the power of the sun.
It takes deluges of water, mountains of fertilizer and vast greenhouse gas emissions to grow corn crops on the scale they're now being grown in America. All at a net loss of energy and public money. Not to mention a doting Congress.
In case you wondered why the shrill tone of the punditry is rising right now they are egging you on to continue the same freedom destroying patterns they set in motion a generation ago. "You go fight the LEFT - ENVIRONMENTALISTS - FEMINISTS - T
The light bulbs in almost every U.S. home and the gasoline in many cars will be altered by energy legislation that the U.S. House of Representatives passed today. President George W. Bush plans to sign the bill tomorrow.
This video shows how solar cells can now be printed almost like a newspaper.
Nanosolar, a privately held solar energy company whose backers include Google Inc's co-founders, said it has started to sell what it calls "the world's lowest cost solar panel." "We have begun shipping panels for free field de
OPEC said the reason prices have risen in recent weeks had nothing to do with supply and demand but was instead the result of (among other things) geopolitical instability.
[The smartest people in the world.] Majority Democrats plan to include the requirement in broader energy legislation to be debated in the context of $90-per-barrel oil, $3-plus pump prices and growing concerns about climate change. The House plans to
Scientists have found a new threat to the planet: Canadian beer drinkers.
The Mountain View-based company initially hopes to harvest cleaner-burning electricity to meet its own needs and sell power to other users or license the technology that emerges from its initiative
Nanosolar has created a solar coating that is the most cost-efficient solar energy source ever. Their PowerSheet cells contrast the current solar technology systems by reducing the cost of production to 30 cents per watt. Making solar power cheaper t
It's actually a jet engine," says Johnathan Goodwin, with a low whistle. "This thing is gonna be even cooler than I thought." We're hunched on the floor of Goodwin's gleaming workshop in Wichita, Kansas, surrounded by the s
The authors' reactor generated hydrogen gas at efficiencies up to 99% of the theoretical maximum yield. "This process produces 288 per cent more energy in hydrogen than the electrical energy that is added to the process," says Prof Loga
For a mere $50 million a year, an oil company worth $250 billion would buy a chunk of America’s premier public research institutions, all but turning them into its own profit-making subsidiary.
For developing countries like China, the technology could be crucial to bringing wind power to places where it is currently un-utilized and perhaps too costly to build. For the developed world it could make wind much cheaper, and turbines at home a r
China is set to become the world's largest consumer of energy by about 2010, according to a study by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Phoenix's Palo Verde Nuclear Plant was under a 9 hour lock down today after security personnel detected a pipe bomb in a vehicle trying to enter the plant. Here is the behind the scenes story.
Just in time for Halloween comes the news that homeowners have a vampire-like threat to their electric bills looming within their homes. And, like the fictional vampires, this threat has to be invited into the home by the homeowners themselves.
Calderón said in his Sept. 2 address that the country held proven reserves that could last nine years. Venezuela, the second-biggest oil producer in Latin America, has reserves to keep pumping at current levels for more than a century.
"Space travel is bunk." --Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of the UK, 1957 Two weeks after Sir Harold made the above prediction, the Russians launched Sputnik. People in the business of making predictions often make them, hoping
Crude oil rose to a record $90 a barrel in New York after the U.S. dollar fell against the euro, enhancing the appeal of commodities as an investment. Investors purchased oil on speculation the Federal Reserve will cut borrowing costs to bolster
Oil futures retreated from a record $89 a barrel Wednesday, ending lower after government data showing larger-than-expected gas and oil supplies outweighed worries about tension in northern Iraq.
This chart tells the what. The question is why?
