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• Petroleum and Cosmetics: What are the Potential Health Risks?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  What is petroleum?Crude oil, sometimes called petroleum, is a fossil fuel that was produced deep in the earth through a process that took millions of years to complete.Millions of years later, almost all of us come into contact with a derivative of petroleum every day. Through a process called fractional distillation, ...
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• 60 percent of additional KG-D6 allocation to power plants

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 717
  New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) A ministerial panel has allotted more than 60 percent of additional allocation from Reliance Industries Ltd’s D6 block in Krishna Godavari basin to the power sector.While the empowered group of ministers, chaired by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, met on Oct 27, the minutes of the meeting ...
  15 hours ago

• Why Google and Cisco Will Soon Manage All Your Energy Use

  
  Features — Authority: 126
  By Will Sarni The IT leaders have re-entered your home and business in a whole new way. Companies like Google and Cisco are providing the tools to help consumers and businesses monitor and manage their energy use to reduce carbon emissions. So, how did this trend come about? And what does it mean for energy ...
  3 days ago

• American Refiners Have a Problem… And the Government is Making it Worse

  
  Investment U — Authority: 502
  American Refiners Have a Problem… And the Government is Making it Worse by Sheena Martin , Investment U Contributing Editor America’s refining companies are under severe financial pressure. As the recession has blanketed the markets, demand for petroleum products has collapsed, causing refiners to scale ...
  4 days ago

• Geothermal Energy Goes Hollywood

  
  Features — Authority: 126
  By Susan Kraemer The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has signed a lease for exploring geothermal potential in Imperial County near the Salton Sea as part of meeting its goal to make 40% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020. It is offering to lease the land, initially for 5 years of ...
  5 days ago

• Hurricane Idas trip through Gulf of Mexico could push oil prices higher

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 797
  Filed under: Energy It has been months since a hurricane posed a real threat to oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, Hurricane Ida is entering the region from the west after doing significant damage in Nicaragua. Most hurricanes that move into the Gulf end up doing very little damage to either deep sea drilling ...
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• Research Findings Throw Some Doubt Into Theory of Peak Oil

  
  Features — Authority: 126
  By Nick Chambers In 1877 Russian scientist Dimitri Mendeelev suggested that the large deposits of oil and gas we find under the surface of the Earth could be made without the decay of long-dead organisms in a process called abiotic synthesis of methane. Since then the theory has been relegated to the back shelf due to ...
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• Energy Industry Tries To Sequester Global Warming Dilemma

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  The New York Times’ Matthew Wald had an interesting piece yesterday about the Energy Dept. funding “carbon capture” — a developing process where carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming are not released into the air during energy production. The capture of carbon before it enters the atmosphere ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cutting emissions may be easier without the focus on coal

  
  Eideard — Authority: 491
  Sequestration of CO₂ depends more on cost than source.
  2 weeks ago

• FUEL * Venezuela and Brazil: Seal oil refinery deal

  
  trucks world news — Authority: 147
  Caracas,Venezuela - DPA/Earth Times -31 Oct 2009: -- Venezuela and Brazil have agreed to build and operate a joint oil refinery in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco following years of negotiations... The state-owned Brazilian oil company Petrobras will own 60 per cent and its Venezuelan ...
  2 weeks ago

• Food will never be so cheap again

  
  Command the Raven — Authority: 148
  From Telegraph UKBiofuel refineries in the US have set fresh records for grain use every month since May. Almost a third of the US corn harvest will be diverted into ethanol for motors this year, or 12pc of the global crop.The world’s grain stocks have dropped from four to 2.6 months cover since 2000, despite [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Food will never be so cheap again

  
  Jesus Lives! — Authority: 446
  From Telegraph UK Biofuel refineries in the US have set fresh records for grain use every month since May. Almost a third of the US corn harvest will be diverted into ethanol for motors this year, or 12pc of the global crop. The world’s grain stocks have dropped from four to 2.6 months cover since 2000, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nuclear Power Debate: 350 Movers, Pragmatic Greens & Fearful Opponents

  
  Features — Authority: 126
  By Joe Walsh First, take a deep breath. It is difficult to do when it is your life and career day-in and day-out, but every once in a while, all of us moving in the clean tech space should stop and reflect on the breakneck pace at which everything around us is moving: technology, regulation, public awareness. Sure, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Panel raises gas quota from Krishna-Godavari basin

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 717
  New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) The Empowered Group of Ministers Tuesday decided on additional allocation of gas from Reliance Industries’ D6 block in the Krishna-Godavari basin, allowing the company to ramp up production.The high-level ministerial panel, chaired by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, decided on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gold in the Sky

  
  Features — Authority: 126
  By Edward Milford, Contributor Johannesburg, the scene of the 29th bi-annual ISES (International Solar Energy Society) Solar World Congress held from 11th-14th October 2009, is the only major international city that is not founded on a coast or that does not have a river running through it. It sits out in the middle ...
  3 weeks ago

• Route 66 Roadtrip: Day 2, Tulsa to Oklahoma City

  
  Tulsa Gentleman — Authority: 130
  We got on the road at about 1:00 PM and resumed our journey on Southwest Boulevard and began to retrace the original Route 66. The old route 66 is still there but in places it has been covered by the interstate or crosses the newer roads as it goes from town to town. If we were to drive on Interstate 44 it would ...
  3 weeks ago

• Puerto Rico Oil Explosion Declared State of Emergency

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 697
  The White House has declared a state of emergency in Puerto Rico, following Friday’s massive oil explosion and fire at the Caribbean Petroleum Corporation storage facility outside San Juan. Approximately 1,500 people have been evacuated because of the disaster and toxic smoke is blowing into residential areas. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Madhya Pradesh raises nursing staffs’ retirement age

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 717
  Bhopal, Oct 23 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh government Friday raised the retirement age of nursing employees in the state to 65 years from the present 60 years, an official said.“A cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan here decided to raise the retirement age of nursing employees/officers ...
  3 weeks ago

• Puerto Rico Explosion Damages 30 Tanks

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 697
  Everyone is talking about the recent explosion which blasted Puerto Rico. The explosion occurred at the Petroleum Gulf Oil Center, at around 12:30 AM Puerto Rican time. Thirty Petroleum Oil Tanks were damaged, but luckily, no deaths have been noted.
  3 weeks ago

• Solar Report Shows 30% Decrease in Cost of Solar Over 10 Years

  
  Features — Authority: 126
  By Zachary Shahan Just the other day, I wrote that now is the time to go solar - you can get great rebates and discounts on solar technology now. Apparently, I jumped the gun and was a few days early. A new report by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab - "Tracking the Sun II: The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the US ...
  3 weeks ago

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