Geopolitical issues are driving up the cost of oil and eroding U.S. energy security and could trigger another recession, according to energy experts.
But fuels derived from natural gas could help avoid a future oil crisis if they’re poised...
January 29, 2013 5:05 pm / no comments
A COUPLE of dozen electric cars with fuel cells under the bonnet (in place of the more usual flat-pack of batteries beneath the floor) have been zipping around your correspondent’s neighbourhood for the past few years. Most are FCX Clarity...
January 29, 2013 4:48 pm / no comments
Despite the recent victory of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, which is pro-nuclear and won a nationwide parliamentary vote on 16 December, issues surrounding the country’s nuclear energy policies will not go away.
In the aftermath of the...
January 3, 2013 4:31 pm / no comments
Gasoline-powered passenger cars plying American roads have been subject to strict pollution limits for some three decades already, but only just have tougher standards for diesel-powered trucks, trains, barges and other soot-belching vehicles...
August 25, 2012 12:27 pm / no comments
Natural gas is an extremely precious and valuable fossil fuel, and has been used all over the world as a capable and cost-effective form of renewable energy for hundreds of years. Natural gas which is odourless, tasteless, shapeless and colourless...
May 28, 2012 7:32 am / no comments
As the price for crude oil continues to rise over time, the cost of producing petroleum-based plastic products continues to rise with it. Alternatives such as bio-plastics, which currently cost more to produce than existing plastics, may someday...
May 25, 2012 12:39 pm / no comments