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Italy 'to revive nuclear power'

BBC News — 2008-05-23 08:23:25

Italy says it is to restart its nuclear energy programme, more than 20 years after it was scrapped by referendum in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster. Since then Italy has become the world's biggest net importer of electricity. Industry Minister Cl

No impact from Energy Saving Day

BBC News — 2008-02-29 08:16:25

The UK's first Energy Saving Day has ended with no noticeable reduction in the country's electricity usage. E-Day asked people to switch off electrical devices they did not need over a period of 24 hours, with the National Grid monitoring consumption.

UK set for 15% renewables target

BBC News — 2008-01-18 08:36:36

The European Union is expected to tell the UK that 15% of energy needs must be met from renewable sources by 2020. The figure, currently about 2%, will include all energy used for heating and cooling buildings. Experts say the target is challenging

Google's cheaper-than-coal target

BBC News — 2007-11-28 11:35:45

Search giant Google is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in renewable energy technologies. The Californian firm wants to make green energy sources of electricity cheaper than that produced from coal. Its new initiative is known as RE < C, an

Energy needs 'to grow inexorably'

BBC News — 2007-11-07 08:21:54

The global demand for energy is set to grow inexorably through to 2030 if governments do not change their policies, warns a top energy official. Nobuo Tanaka, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), said such a rise would threaten

Probing Question: Are there upper and lower limits to temperature?

Physorg — 2007-06-09 05:58:11

Most people have heard absolute zero described as the lowest possible temperature, but what does that mean? Is it really the coldest cold, or just the lowest temperature that we can measure? Is there a corresponding highest temperature? According to Moses

Scientists discover radiation-eating fungi

pressesc.com — 2007-05-23 13:14:08

Fungi possess a previously undiscovered talent with profound implications: the ability to use radioactivity as an energy source for making food and spurring their growth, according research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University

Collecting solar energy in space

MSNBC — 2007-04-11 16:51:23

The concept could find broad bipartisan support as it could meet the desires both of conservatives seeking to end dependence on foreign energy sources, as well as liberals who are looking for an environmentally friendly source of energy, Kueter said. W

Professor demonstrates new hydrogen fuel system

Physorg — 2007-02-24 10:48:59

Northern Nevada energy consumers can be excused if they have a sense of "sticker shock" when their power bills come due following the holiday season. Or, that they have a feeling of powerlessness as the price of gasoline climbs to $3 per gallon. They wond

Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs

www.energystar.gov — 2007-02-02 10:34:11

If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR, we would save enough energy to light more than 2.5 million homes for a year and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of nearly 800,000 cars.

Technique could double U.S. oil reserves

Earth Times — 2006-12-07 21:30:18

A fossil fuel division of the U.S. Energy Department says experimental oil production was a success and could double U.S. oil reserves.

Salt Lake City plan may turn sewer waste to energy

Associated Press — 2006-11-09 12:50:58

The question goes something like this: How many toilet flushes does it take to power a light bulb? There's really no answer, but Salt Lake City is exploring a pilot project that would convert sewer waste into energy to run a heating a cooling system in a

Laser heats up the fusion future

BBC News — 2008-05-20 08:19:12

The world's most powerful laser has heated matter to a truly sweltering 10 million Celsius. The Vulcan laser concentrated energy equivalent to 100 times the world's electricity production into a spot just a few millionths of a metre across. Writing

Cuts see green grants halved

BBC News — 2008-05-12 08:16:23

The number of government grants made to people who want to fit solar panels or other green energy systems to their homes has halved, the BBC has learned. It comes after the low carbon buildings programme cut the maximum grant on offer from �7,500 to

Nuclear's CO2 cost 'will climb'

BBC News — 2008-05-01 08:22:37

The case for nuclear power as a low carbon energy source to replace fossil fuels has been challenged in a new report by Australian academics. It suggests greenhouse emissions from the mining of uranium - on which nuclear power relies - are on the rise.

Massive wind energy plan refused

BBC News — 2008-04-21 08:23:02

Plans to construct one of Europe's largest onshore wind farms has been refused by the Scottish Government. It said Lewis Wind Power's (LWP) 181-turbines for Lewis on the Western Isles did not comply with European law protecting sensitive environments.

Researchers eye farm waste as energy

CNN — 2008-04-17 08:12:23

Washington University engineers using imaging technology have found that vigorous mixing helps microorganisms turn farm waste into alternative energy. Hog and cow manure is a persistent pollutant from industrial-sized barns and feed lots, but can becom

Sonoma eyes wastewater as an energy source

SF Gate — 2008-04-07 08:12:38

When most people think alternative energy, solar, wind or biofuels come to mind. Sonoma County officials want to add another source to the list: treated wastewater. A pilot program taking root in a nondescript business park near the Charles M. Schulz A

UK 'to seek more nuclear power'

BBC News — 2008-03-06 08:22:27

Britain's reliance on nuclear energy should increase over the next two decades, business secretary John Hutton has told The Financial Times. Mr Hutton announced plans in January for a new generation of nuclear plants to replace the UK's 10 ageing stati

Moral appeal for energy saving

BBC News — 2008-02-29 08:16:26

The battle against climate change has been described by a church leader as a "moral issue", at the launch of a strategy to reduce UK electricity use. The Bishop of London said parts of the world are already affected by change. Energy Saving Day, whi