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A New Technology To Turn Methane-Emitting Biomass Waste into “Biochar”

Biochar is a stable form of carbon, made from woody materials in a heat and oxygen-deprived system. Conventionally, biochar has been made as a small residue of …

Thermal Plant

German Spend €40 billion Designed to Lessen Impact of Coal Plant Closures

German officials on Aug. 28 approved a plan to spend as much as €40 billion ($44.4 billion) over the next 20 years on projects designed to lessen the impact of…

Crude

Kenya Exports Its First-Ever Barrel of Oil to China

Kenya exported its first-ever batch of crude oil Monday, with President Uhuru Kenyatta declaring the shipment of 200,000 barrels a "special moment" in the count…

ExxonMobil, Mosaic Materials to Explore Carbon Capture Technologies

Mosaic Materials has progressed research on a process that uses porous solids, known as metal-organic frameworks, to separate carbon dioxide from air or flue ga…

Solar Power Plant

China's Year-Long Solar Policy Hiatus Crippled Utility-Scale Solar

China added 11.4GW of solar capacity in the first half of 2019, according to figures released by the country's National Energy Administration.

Green Hydrogen is the Ideal Alternative to Fossil Fuels

The pioneering work is known in Bremerhaven. In offshore wind energy Bremerhaven has developed comprehensive competences including internationally recognized re…

Thermal Fuel

Trump Administration Considers Boost to Biofuel Mandates to Ease Farmer Anger

The Trump administration is considering ramping up biofuel blending quotas in the coming years to assuage anger in the Farm Belt over its recent broad use of wa…

Oil & Gas Trade

Iran's Foreign Minister Arrived at the G7 Summit for Surprise Side Talks

Iran's foreign minister flew in for side talks at the G7 summit on Sunday as host France ramped up efforts to ease tensions between Tehran and Washington, a dra…

Nuclear Power Plant

Tokyo Electric Power May Start Reactors at World's Biggest Nuclear Plant

Tokyo Electric Power said on Monday it may start to decommission at least one nuclear reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power plant, the world’s biggest nuclea…

Oil & Gas Trade

Crude Oil Futures were Lower, Cause Escalating Trade Tensions Between the US and China

Crude oil futures were lower during mid-morning trade at the start of a brand new trading week in Asia Monday amid escalating trade tensions between the US and …

Solar Power Panel

Amazon Fire Claims Add to Tesla's Troubles With PV Installs

Reports of fires at Amazon facilities look set to pile fresh controversy on Tesla’s US solar installs, with new claims emerging only days after Walmart took El…

Nuclear Power Plant

China, South Korea Vie for Bulgarian Nuclear Power Project

Reuters reports that state utilities from China and South Korea, including CNNC and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co (KHNP), are amongst the seven groups interest…

Nuclear Power Plant

Japan's Tepco to Submit Decommissioning Plan Regarding Five Reactors

Tokyo Electric Power (9501.T) will submit to a municipal official on Monday a plan regarding the decommissioning of five reactors at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nucl…

Oil and Gas Technology

The Iraq-Turkey Oil Pipeline Dispute: Opportunity in an Arbitration

Fatigue and frustration aside, U.S. focus and engagement in Iraq remains critical to the national- and energy-security interests of the United States and its al…

Oil&Gas Drilling

U.S. Sanctions Deadline is Threatening to Clobber Venezuela's Dwindling Oil-Rig Fleet

A looming U.S. sanctions deadline is threatening to clobber Venezuela’s dwindling oil-rig fleet and hamper energy production in the nation with the world’s la…