About 2.5 billion gallons of produced water, a byproduct from the oil refinery and extraction process, is generated each day in the United States. Handling that water is a major challenge in... Read more
To make ships more eco-efficient, engineers have been working with alternative fuels. A Norwegian engineer is currently pursuing a new approach: With VindskipTM, he has designed a cargo ship... Read more
Cleaning up oil sands tailings has just gotten a lot greener thanks to a novel technique developed by University of Alberta civil engineering professors that uses solar energy to accelerate... Read more
We could make a bio-battery or a signaling network by stringing some of these droplets together A simple new technique to form interlocking beads of water in ambient conditions could prove v... Read more
The US economy is at least twice as efficient in energy use today as it was two decades ago There is growing euphoria over America’s energy future. Energy experts around the globe have... Read more
Putting rocks in medical scanners may help the search for oil and gas STRIKING oil is one thing. Getting it out of the ground in economic quantities is quite another. Doing so depends on und... Read more
The center of the Earth is a roiling ball of heat, roughly 6,000 degrees Celsius as near as we can tell without a sci-fi tunneling effort. The closest humanity has come to that molten core i... Read more
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ON THE face of it the world’s big and publicly quoted oil companies should be celebrating some pleasing results this week. Royal Dutch Shell unveiled its results on Thursday February 4th, re... Read more
