And they are exacerbated by bad management, says Simon Long AS IT SCOURS the universe for signs of extraterrestrial life, NASA has a motto-cum-mission-statement: “Follow the water”. About 70% of the human
The Liberal Democrats in Britain remain the greenest of the three major parties, and the party's environmental beliefs are spelled out on every page of its mini-manifesto "Freedom in a Liberal
Governments should reduce their petrol taxes, but at the same time raise taxes on other, dirtier, sources of energy : a
Protestors outraged by high petrol taxes brought parts of Europe to a halt. But are taxes really the root cause of the oil crisis? : a
Much of the world gets its electricity from big, inefficient and dirty power plants situated far from consumers. That will soon change : a
Power is every bit as big a business as telecoms. America's $220 billion electricity market is larger than those for cellular and long-distance telephony combined. The secret to this revolution lies
Volatile energy prices have made energy an unlikely campaign issue in U.S.-and prompted a lot of hypocritical nonsense from the two presidential candidates. How could America use less oil? : a
The concern about nuclear waste contaminating the sea and beaches has led the Danish and Irish governments to call for the closure of Sellafield's spent-fuel reprocessing plant, which opened only in
This month, after years of planning and many delays, the Offshore Kazakhstan International Operating Company (OKIOC) finally began drilling its first well in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea in
A major gas discovery in the basin of Wyonming's Powder River has led to a gas rush. The pipeline that will pass through Clearmont (U.S.) will not carry the usual cocktail of raw hydrocarbons found
Mention hydrogen energy and the reaction can be wild. Talk of fleets of buses powered by fuel cells produces jibes about "rolling hydrogen bombs". This is unfair: properly handled, hydrogen is as
