British government reviews shale oil potential in country's southeast
London (UPI) May 23, 2013 -
The British government said Friday it estimates there may be as much as 8.5 billion barrels of oil in a shale basin in the southeast of the country.
The British Geological Survey and Department of Energy and Climate Change published data Friday on the Weald basin in the southeast of the country.
It said there may be between 2.2 billion and 8.5 billion barrels of shale oil in plac ...
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U.S. rail regulator said most rail companies following rules for Bakken oil
Washington (UPI) May 23, 2013 -
The U.S. rail industry is following the rules for shipping Bakken crude oil, though some violations exist on the margins, the nation's top rail regulator said.
Last year, the Department of Transportation and the Federal Railroad Administration launched the so-called Bakken Blitz, spot inspections of crude oil shipments by rail to determine if the industry was labeling their cargoes prop ...
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China gas deal a symbolic victory for Russia but won't leave Europe dry
Moscow (AFP) May 25, 2014 -
The $400 billion gas deal Russia signed with China was a symbolic victory for Moscow as it is locked in a dispute with the West over Ukraine, but the scale of the deal is not as massive as it seems at first blush, according to analysts.
The volumes to be shipped east won't cut Russia's dependence on selling gas to the West, nor would they lead to shortages in Europe.
Under the 30-year de ...
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New, fossil-fuel-free process makes biodiesel sustainable
Lansing MI (SPX) May 23, 2014 -
A new fuel-cell concept, developed by an Michigan State University researcher, will allow biodiesel plants to eliminate the creation of hazardous wastes while removing their dependence on fossil fuel from their production process.
The platform, which uses microbes to glean ethanol from glycerol and has the added benefit of cleaning up the wastewater, will allow producers to reincorporate t ...
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New analysis eliminates a potential speed bump in quantum computing
San Diego CA (SPX) May 23, 2014 -
A quantum particle can search for an item in an unsorted "database" by jumping from one item to another in superposition, and it does so faster than a classical computer ever could.
This assertion assumes, however, that the particle can directly hop from any item to any other. Any restriction on which items the particle can directly hop to could slow down the search.
"Intuition says ...
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NASA's Alternative Fuel Effects Research Showcased
Palmdale CA (SPX) May 23, 2014 -
Social media followers and news media representatives from across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom came to the high desert of Southern California May 20 to learn about a NASA project that is investigating the effects of alternative fuels on the environment.
Based at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center's facilities in Palmdale and Edwards Air Force Base, California, the NA ...
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Bending helps to control nanomaterials
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) May 23, 2014 -
A new remedy has been found to tackle the difficulty of controlling layered nanomaterials. Control can be improved by simply bending the material.
The mechanism was observed by Academy Research Fellow Pekka Koskinen from the Nanoscience Center of the University of Jyvaskyla together with his colleagues from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the US. Bending decreases interaction be ...
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