February 2017

New solar reflecting film can cool homes without air conditioning – scientists

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Solar reflecting film slightly thicker than aluminium foil By Alex Whiting LONDON, Feb 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – While Australians struggle to keep their air conditioners humming as a heatwave threatens to overwhelm the country’s power grid, U.S. scientists say they have found a way to cool homes without using electricity or water. A team of […]

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Dept. of Energy study finds low methane leakage rates from natural gas systems

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By Seth Whitehead, EnergyInDepth A new U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) study adds to an already long list of reports findings low methane leakage rates from natural gas systems. Using data from a comprehensive 2015 Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) report on the Barnett Shale region in Texas to synthesize emissions on a national scale, the

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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter goes solar, helping power rural hometown

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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on White House in 1979 By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK, Feb 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has transformed his farmland into a field of solar panels to help power his tiny rural hometown, nearly four decades after he first had panels installed

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Europe to invest in renewables despite Trump – electricity lobby

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Falling cost of renewables should lead to sustained investment BRUSSELS, Feb 10 (Reuters) – European utilities will not reduce their investments in renewables if U.S. President Donald Trump lowers U.S. climate goals, encouraged by Chinese and EU political commitments to low carbon energy, electricity lobby Eurelectric said. Trump, who campaigned on a pledge to bolster the

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US energy exports to Mexico in 2016 worth more than twice that of imports

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 Mexico second only to Canada in energy trade with US Energy trade between Mexico and the United States has historically been driven by Mexico’s sales of crude oil to the United States and by US net exports of refined petroleum products to Mexico, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Through 2014, Mexico’s exports of

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Argentina seeking increased natural gas production from shale resources to reduce imports

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Argentina is 3rd, after US, Canada, to commercially develop tight oil and shale gas Despite its estimated 802 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of unproved, technically recoverable shale gas resources, Argentina’s dry natural gas production declined each year from 2006 to 2014, and the country has shifted from a net exporter of natural gas to a net importer,

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