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Tesla Motors eyes self-driving cars. Are they more efficient?Tesla Motors has jumped into the race to build a self-driving car. Autonomous transport promises greater convenience, safety and energy efficiency than the human-operated vehicles of today. Self-driving cars are the kind futurist, energy-centric issues Tesla Motors chief Elon Musk likes to tackle.聽聽
Sound and fury over energy nominee Ron BinzRon Binz 鈥� President Obama's pick聽to head an obscure federal agency 鈥� has energy insiders drawing battle lines. Is the聽Federal Energy Regulatory Commission the next flash point in the debate over US energy?
New climate change map adds a new factor: peopleA new map,聽published this week in Nature Climate Change, assesses the degree to which humans have modified regional landscapes, in addition to how exposed those regions already are to climate change.聽
Gas prices set record: 1000 days straight above $3 a gallonGas prices averaged more than $3.00 in the US Tuesday 鈥� a record 1,000 days in a row, according to AAA. If we have so much oil in the US, why are gas prices so high?
Typhoon Man-yi complicates Fukushima nuclear cleanupTyphoon Man-yi brought heavy rain and wind to Japan Monday, raising concerns over the fragile cleanup at the聽Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Workers already struggle to contain contaminated wastewater, and rain from Typhoon Man-yi adds to the complications at Fukushima.
Antarctic ice sheet melting from below, scientists sayThe Pine Island Glacier, one of the most rapidly melting ice masses in the world, is being rapidly eaten away by warm currents of water below.
Black swans and the oil market: how to profitBlack Swan events almost always push oil prices higher. Here's why.
Colorado floods predicted by scientistsColorado, and especially Boulder, Colo., has a history of flash floods. In 2004, the University of Colorado's Natural Hazards Center listed a flash flood in Boulder as one of six "disasters waiting to happen" in the United States.
Can anyone break Russia's hold on Europe's gas?Europeans want cheaper natural gas to jumpstart an economy crippled by high energy costs. The trouble is, alternatives to Russian gas are plenty in theory, but few in reality.
Listing white rhinos as endangered could save all rhinos, conservationists sayThe US Fish and Wildlife Service has named southern white rhinoceros an endangered species protected under the Endangered Species Act,聽a move that the organization says could help protect the other four highly endangered species of rhinos.
Move over Keystone XL. There's a new pipeline in town.With the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline up in the air, the company behind the controversial pipeline is pushing forward with a separate pipeline to refineries in Canada. 聽
New LNG export approval: an export opening for Marcellus gasThe US approves a fourth facility to export liquefied natural gas: Dominion Energy's Cove Point terminal in Maryland. Via pipeline, Cove Point offers Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale producers direct access for LNG exports.
Massive molasses spill prompts shark-attack warningMassive molasses spill:聽A brown plume of sweet, sticky liquid was spotted seeping into聽Honolulu Harbor聽and Keehi Lagoon on Monday after a ship hauling聽molasses聽to the West Coast聽pulled out to sea.
Will Europe go shopping for oil in the Caspian Sea?While the realignment of the energy map could bring short-term birth pangs to the European economy, Graeber writes, by the time the eurozone is in full swing, producers from the Caspian Sea may have taken Russia's place as the exporter of choice.
Can DOE build a better electric car battery?Last week, the Department of Energy's ARPA-E program聽announced funding for a new program aimed at rethinking electric car batteries.聽The program recognizes that significant breakthroughs in battery chemistry and vehicle architecture are crucial for electric cars to compete with internal combustion vehicles, Nicholson writes.
Eagles, wind farms don't mix. New study shows toll on birds.The toll on eagles from wind farms is documented in a new study from government biologists.聽The wind industry said it was working with the government and conservation groups to find ways to reduce eagle fatalities related to wind farms.- Massive molasses spill kills fish, crabs, eels off HawaiiSome 233,000 gallons of molasses leaked into Honolulu harbor, killing hundreds of fish. Officials are warning people to stay out of the water because the dead marine life will attract sharks.
Why running the AC in California's scorching valleys may get a bit cheaperResponding to consumer complaints of an unfair rate system, California lawmakers are close to passing a bill that would bring electricity rates in hot inland areas closer to those at the cool coast.
Arctic ice continues to thin, and thin, European satellite revealsThe thickness of the Arctic鈥檚 ice was whittled to a new recorded low this winter,聽according to data from the European Space Agency鈥檚 CyroSat mission.
Strike on Syria would cause oil prices to ... drop?The prevailing opinion is that any American intervention in Syria will send the price of crude oil skyward, Johnston writes. But,聽some claim that the opposite will happen.聽
