Energy

Novel-tee Charges Your Phone, Someday

Charging our clothes to credit cards is nothing new.  Now our clothes may be doing the charging. Scientists at the University of South Carolina (USC)...

Turks Trade Gold for Iran’s Energy Allegiance

To continue feeding its addiction to Iranian oil, Turkey exported eight times as much gold to Iran in the first five months of 2012...

Biofuel from Plastic for this Young Egyptian Scientist from Alexandria

Azza Abdel Hamid Faiad was the winner of the 2011 European Union Contest for Young Scientists for finding a new way of turning plastic into biofuel. A sixteen-year-old...

Saudi Arabia’s Energy Woes Solved by Red Sea Drilling?

Gas is 15 cents a liter (60 cents a gallon) in Saudi Arabia: the government is fighting to keep both high standard of living...

Palestinians Embrace Solar To Reduce Dependency on Israel

Palestinians want to be more energy independent but will Israeli authorities, which are currently threatening the demolition of solar plants in the West Bank,...

Leap-second Bug Consumes Megawatts of Electricity

Was it the leap-second bug that pushed America's power plants beyond their capacity? A 61 second minute was added to clocks around the world on...

US Sanctions on Iran’s Oil Pressures Turkey’s Energy Supply

Libya is one of the countries with which Turkey signed a rapid oil supply deal after the United States threatened to sanction countries that...

Morocco solar energy deals led by Saudi Arabia

ACWA rumored to win the contract to build a 160 MW CSP project in in the south of Morocco.

Google Resorts to Going Green With Trash Talk

Gmail offers recycling tips. Apparently, they’ve been doing this for years. What rock have I been under? I was doing some email spring cleaning during...

Can Lebanon Reach 12% Renewable Energy By 2020 ?

In 2009, Lebanon pledged to produce 12% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020- is this target optimistic today? Renewables are becoming an important...

Jordan Gets REEL About Renewables

Jordan’s nuclear industry is wildly volatile, especially when you consider it doesn’t actually exist. Arwa reported on last week’s parliamentary vote to shelve Jordan's first...

Jordan Suspends Its Nuclear Plans Amid Controversy

Jordan has supported a parliamentary committee recommendation to suspend Jordan's projected nuclear programme It's certainly been a busy week for Khaled Toukan who is commissioner...

Turkey’s Early Hydroelectric Dams Featured in Exhibit

The first hydroelectric dam built in Ankara, Turkey's capital city, the Çubuk Dam was promoted as "Ankara's Bosphorus". A new exhibit at Istanbul's avant-garde SALT...

Could America’s 250 Percent Tariff on Chinese PVs Help the Mideast?

The United States Department of Commerce ruled yesterday that Chinese photovoltaic panel prices were below production costs and therefore their sale constituted dumping.   Proposed...

3000 Foot Downdraft Energy Tower Planned by Israeli Professors on Mexico-US Border

Can the Energy Tower slated for US Mexico border create clean power and mitigate climate change? If Americans put Man on the moon,...

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AIR ONE electric flying car is getting closer to your garage

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Adidas wanted to sell one shoe. Then it stepped into a global culture war

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