Life might take a hammering on the sun's earthly anvil, the Sahara desert, but the two most abundant resources the desert has to offer – sunlight and sand – could...
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Joint initiative by Japanese & Algerian universities aims to produce 50% of humanity's energy by 2050—in the Sahara
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Pike: Market for smart grid data tools and services to hit $4.2 billion by 2015 (from $365 million today)
There’s gold in smart grid data — only about $356 million of it today, but potentially $4.2 billion of it by 2015. That’s Pike Research’s bold prediction for the global...
House climate committee to be axed
The House Democrats’ prized global warming committee died quietly on Wednesday. It was four years old.
U.S. won’t end drilling ban in eastern Gulf
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is rescinding its decision to expand offshore oil exploration into the eastern Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic Coast because of...
Senior Republican blasts Interior push for gas ‘fracking’ disclosure
A Utah Republican who helps oversee the Interior Department is bashing potential Interior rules that would force natural gas drillers to disclose chemicals they’re using...
EPA confirms tiny cellulosic biofuels mandate for 2011
In Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized the 2011 percentage standards for the four fuels categories under the agency's Renewable Fuel...
Don't consign us to history, plead island states at Cancún
Every country in the Caribbean faces huge economic losses caused by rising sea levels over the coming decades, losing hospitals, airports, power plants, multi-million...
GAO: Lost natural gas costs government $23 million per year
The government is losing tens of millions of dollars in potential royalties from energy companies that let immense volumes of natural gas escape into the atmosphere,...
GM hiring to push electric effort beyond Volt
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co said on Tuesday it would hire 1,000 engineers and researchers in Michigan over the next two years to develop more electric cars and...
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