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| January 24, 2014 |
 Energy-dense sugar battery developed to power the world's gadgets Blacksburg VA (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - A Virginia Tech research team has developed a battery that runs on sugar and has an unmatched energy density, a development that could replace conventional batteries with ones that are cheaper, refillable, and biodegradable. The findings from Y.H. Percival Zhang, an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Engi ... more |  |
 White, Green or Black Roofs? Berkeley Lab Report Compares Economic Payoffs Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - Looking strictly at the economic costs and benefits of three different roof types-black, white and "green" (or vegetated)-Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers have found in a new study that white roofs are the most cost-effective over a 50-year time span. While the high installation cost of green roofs sets them back in economic terms, their environmental and amenity ... more |  |
 UT Austin Engineer Converts Yeast Cells into 'Sweet Crude' Biofuel Austin TX (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering have developed a new source of renewable energy, a biofuel, from genetically engineered yeast cells and ordinary table sugar. This yeast produces oils and fats, known as lipids, that can be used in place of petroleum-derived products. Assistant professor Hal Alper, in the Cockrell School's McKetta Department ... more |  |
 Staying cool in the nanoelectric universe by getting hot Buffalo NY (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - As smartphones, tablets and other gadgets become smaller and more sophisticated, the heat they generate while in use increases. This is a growing problem because it can cause the electronics inside the gadgets to fail. Conventional wisdom suggests the solution is to keep the guts of these gadgets cool. But a new University at Buffalo research paper hints at the opposite: that is, to ... more |  |
Atomic-Scale Catalysts May Produce Cheap Hydrogen Raleigh NC (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - Researchers at North Carolina State University have shown that a one-atom thick film of molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) may work as an effective catalyst for creating hydrogen. The work opens a new door for the production of cheap hydrogen. Hydrogen holds great promise as an energy source, but the production of hydrogen from water electrolysis - freeing hydrogen from water with electricity - cur ... more |  |
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 Electric Drive Vehicles Have Little Impact on US Pollutant Emissions Raleigh NC (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - A new study from North Carolina State University indicates that even a sharp increase in the use of electric drive passenger vehicles (EDVs) by 2050 would not significantly reduce emissions of high-profile air pollutants carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides. "EDVs" is a catch-all term that includes hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles. "We wanted to see h ... more |  |
Toyota keeps world No. 1 title with record vehicle sales Tokyo (AFP) Jan 23, 2014 - Toyota sold a record 9.98 million vehicles last year, it said Thursday, outpacing rivals General Motors and Volkswagen to maintain its title of world's biggest automaker. The Japanese auto giant's highest-ever annual sales volume came thanks to a weaker yen as well as strong US and China sales, signalling it had recovered from a series of damaging safety recalls and Japan's 2011 quake-tsunam ... more |  |
 Tokyo governor race kicks off with focus on nuclear power Tokyo (AFP) Jan 23, 2014 - The race to become the next governor of Tokyo kicked off Thursday in an election widely seen as a referendum on Japan's energy policy, almost three years after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima. Observers say the election on February 9 will be a two-horse race between the anti-nuclear former prime minister Morihiro Hosokawa and Yoichi Masuzoe, an academic and former health minister, who serv ... more |  |
 Global steel output rallies, dominated by China: trade data Paris (AFP) Jan 23, 2014 - Global production of steel rose by 3.5 percent in 2013 and China's share of the total grew further to 48.5 percent, trade data showed on Thursday, giving an insight into a basic input for economies and growth. China produced 8.95 times more steel than the United States. The global industry is showing signs of benefiting from a pick-up in demand, which had fallen heavily, highlighting in ... more |  |
Japan researchers use cosmic rays to see nuclear fuel Tokyo (AFP) Jan 23, 2014 - Japanese researchers said Thursday they had succeeded in using cosmic rays to find nuclear fuel inside a reactor, a technology that might be helpful in the complicated decommissioning at Fukushima. By observing the way the particles behaved near reactors, container vessels and spent fuel pools, they were able to obtain a clear visual picture of the fuel, they said. "We are conducting thi ... more |  |
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Australia on course for a shale boom? Sydney (UPI) Jan 23, 2013 - Australia is slated to be the next big energy market for shale, experts say. Boston consultancy Lux Research in a recent report predicted that Australia will experience large-scale hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, sooner than in China, even though China's shale resources are estimated to be twice that of the United States. "Existing infrastructure, low population density in re ... more |  |
New deadline set in Panama Canal dispute Panama City (AFP) Jan 23, 2014 - The Panama Canal authority and a consortium working on widening the waterway have given themselves until February 1 to resolve a bitter financial dispute that threatens the project, the consortium said Thursday. The negotiations are aimed at "a long-term solution" to complete the project, which has been plagued with delays and disagreements over extra costs and slow progress. The consort ... more |  |
US leg of controversial Canadian oil pipeline opens Montreal (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - Oil started to flow on Wednesday through the southern US leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, its Canadian operator said, while Washington mulls whether on not to approve its northern half. Calgary-based firm TransCanada said the US$2.3 billion pipeline had begun carrying crude 487 miles from Cushing in Oklahoma to Gulf Coast refineries in the southern state of Texas. The compa ... more |  |
 New York seeks to double recycling by 2017 New York (AFP) Jan 23, 2014 - More than 40,000 tonnes of waste a day, 7,000 employees and a fleet of more than 2,500 trucks: New York faces an uphill task in trashing its garbage and doubling recycling by 2017. It is the US city that generates the most garbage: a dizzying 2.5 kilos (5.5 pounds) per person per day compared to two kilos in the rest of the country, according to the office of Mayor Bill de Blasio. "Sanit ... more |  |
Abbas 'seeks $1B deal with Russia on Gaza natural gas field Ramallah, West Bank (UPI) Jan 23, 2013 - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is in Moscow on a four-day visit seeking to secure a $1 billion deal with Russia to develop a natural gas field off the Gaza Strip, The move would expand what appears to be a determined Russian push into the energy-rich Eastern Mediterranean, Russian media reports indicated. Russia signed a 25-year agreement with Syria's embattled r ... more |  |
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Ukraine sets back Gazprom profits by 10.5% Moscow (AFP) Jan 23, 2014 - Russia's natural gas giant Gazprom reported on Thursday a 10.5-percent plunge in third-quarter profits but gains over the first nine months of 2013 thanks booming European sales. Gazprom - the world's biggest natural gas firm by both production and reserves - said its profits between July and September last year came in at 276.07 billion rubles ($8.1 billion, 6.0 billion euros). The op ... more |  |
Bolivia's Morales eyes nuclear power La Paz (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - Bolivia's President Evo Morales said Wednesday he wanted to produce nuclear energy, even though his country is South America's poorest. "This year, we are going to launch the Bolivian nuclear energy program, for peaceful means," the longtime leftist president pledged in an address to lawmakers, starting the last year of his current term. "We have decided to create a high-level energy com ... more |  |
Reding: EU won't renegotiate free movement deal with Switzerland Strasbourg, France (UPI) Jan 23, 2013 - The EU would not renegotiate its bilateral agreements with Switzerland should Swiss voters restrict immigration, a European Commission official has warned. EC Vice President Viviane Reding said in an interview published by the Switzerland on Sunday newspaper "it is illusion" to believe the country could renegotiate its agreement with the European Union on the free movement of peoples wi ... more |  |
'Mac' turns 30 in changing computer world San Francisco (AFP) Jan 23, 2014 - Decades before changing the world with iPhones and iPads, Apple transformed home computing with the Macintosh. The friendly desktop machine referred to as the "Mac" and, importantly, the ability to control it by clicking on icons with a "mouse," opened computing to non-geeks in much the way that touchscreens later allowed almost anyone get instantly comfortable with smartphones or tablets. ... more |  |
 Microsoft tops expectations with record revenue San Francisco (AFP) Jan 23, 2014 - Microsoft soared to record revenues in the last quarter the company said Thursday, confounding Wall Street forecasts on the back of strong demand for Xbox consoles, Surface tablets and Internet "cloud" services. The US-based technology titan reported net income of $6.56 billion on revenue that hit a record high of $24.52 billion in the quarter that ended December 31. "Our Commercial segm ... more |  |
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