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Supercomputer simulation: Gulf of Mexico oil spill may move up East Coast
A supercomputer simulation conducted by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in conjunction with the Los Alamos National Laboratory indicates that the oil spill in the Gulf of...
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Report reveals cyberattacks on oil companies
Three U.S. oil companies were targeted in 2008 in computer attacks in which sensitive information was leaked, including in one case to a computer in China, according to a report.
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Most of us use a lot of oil without ever driving a car
Cereplast turning out bioplastics for general consumer product companies.
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Let's blame addictive oil
The blame game is getting grimmer as the global warming warnings get more strident. Now comes a book pointing to petroleum as "the devil's excrement." Damn, wish I thought of that epithet. This...
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Big Oil greening up--is this a good thing?
"Newsweek" would like you to believe it's a happy sign of the times to see global oil companies putting serious money into alternative fuels. They site investments by major oil companies in...
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Oil shortages are over, we're gonna squeeze it from diatoms
Researchers say there's enough oil made by tiny diatoms to power the planet. Or at least reduce worries about "peak oil." We simply have to harvest it, "milk" it they say. Diatoms are...
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Less oil, less debt...so what's our next addiction?
One environmental organization thinks it could be the rare earth elements needed to make high tech devices from batteries to LEDs. From MRI scanners to catalytic converters. Here's NRDC's look...
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Carbon Capture and Petroleum Industry—a tale of two pities
It's a pity that not everybody can be happy when the federal government does something. Or even just talks about doing something. Back when oil men sat in the top two executive positions in the...
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Will cheap oil affect green innovation? [video]
At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative...
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Will cheap oil affect green innovation?
At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative...
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Oil isn't over
One Texas oil company is finding ever more oil in the deep sea. Andarko announced another successful test well southwest of New Orleans under nearly a mile of water. Here's Andarko's press...
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Refining vegetable oil into diesel fuel
At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Peter Bell, co-founder of Renewable Fuel Products, explains that his company's reactors are small and mobile enough to be loaded onto the...
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Biotech for food, fuel
At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., J. Craig Venter says going from food to fuel--corn to ethanol--is taking resources in the wrong direction. He discusses oil palm and the...
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Expensive Oil, Stupid Trade Groups, and Pending Enterprise Software Growth
USA Today had an interesting article today that calls into question a few of the doomsday scenarios that have dominated US policy-makers and those for whom policy has been made over the last...
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Robot buoy to track oil spills
Yesterday, Japan Today reported about a prototype of robotic buoy developed at Osaka University to fight sea pollution in the event of an environmental disaster caused by an oil spill. The current...
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Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past
To maintain any modicum of modern life countries and individuals will increasingly turn to electricity generated from renewable sources. There is no way to dramatically increase the world's oil...
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There'a zero-emission car now, but you can't have one. BTW: the Pres doesn't wanna hear you "squawk" about gasoline prices.
Clarity, courtesy Honda. Good news: Honda's now making a zero-emission car. Better news: they're shipping them from Japan to car-hungry Los Angeles. Bad news: even if you live in LA, you're...
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Crude oil: OPEC cartel? Speculation? Unlimited demand?
I am not sure there is a simple explanation for what's happening with crude oil prices. As with any unprecedented run-up in price on anything from Enron stock to tulip futures, there is always a...
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How artificial is the crude oil price? Have we passed peak oil?
Here's a map that purports to show how much oil there is in North America and that the supply far exceeds the demand. This website argues greed is driving the high oil price, not shortage. Wait...
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News to know: AMD; Oil and telecommuting; Verizon's EV-DO modem; Linux
Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Review: Verizon UM150 USB EV-DO modem Gallery (right). Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun News.com: AMD revises server road...
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