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Nest Learning Thermostat: temperature control for the iPhone crowdThe Nest Learning Thermostat learns your heating and cooling habits, creating energy-efficient, customizable temperature settings for homes. Oh, and you can control the Nest Learning Thermostat with your iPhone.
South Africa OKs fracking for natural gasSouth Africa has lifted a ban on the hydraulic fracturing, a controversial method for tapping natural gas reserves commonly known as "fracking," according to OilPrice.com. South Africa ranks among the top ten global owners of shale gas resources and some say fracking will help the country exploit these resources.
Sanctions on Iran: Is there a limit to their effect on Iran's oil production?OPEC figures show a general decline in Iran's crude oil production after Iran was hit with economic sanctions this summer, according to OilPrice.com. But has the effect of the sanctions on Iran's oil production reached a limit?
Nikola Tesla gets his own museum, thanks to cartoonistNikkola Tesla, not Thomas Edison, is considered the true 'father of electricity' by many. Now, thanks to the fundraising efforts of a Seattle-based cartoonist, the inventor's abandoned New York laboratory may find second life as a museum dedicated to Nikola Tesla.
Organizing and synthesizing the world's energy dataEnergy is a sector potentially well-suited to be mined with big data—the accumulation, integration, synthesis and interpretation of enormous amounts of data from disparate sources—Stuebi writes.
Helium shortage? Bureaucrats, firms are creating too little hot air.Helium shortage is raising prices for everyone from physicists and hospitals to retailers of Mylar balloons. But it's not supply and demand that's caused the helium shortage, it's a botched public-private handoff of responsibility.
'Green banks': The answer to clean energy's subsidy woes?Green banks, clean-energy finance banks that operate as public-private financing institutions, are being touted as a life-line that will push the clean energy industry into maturity, according to OilPrice.com
The clunky, lagging transition to renewable energyHistory suggests that it can take up to 50 years to replace an existing energy infrastructure, and we don't have that long, Cobb writes.
Is energy independence a fantasy?Can America's vast shale oil and gas reserves – combined with fracking and drilling technlogies – drive the U.S. to complete energy independence? It looks doubtful, according to OilPrice.com and a report from Credit Suisse.
World's largest solar farm coming to CaliforniaAnalysts predict First Solar will win the rights to supply NextEra Energy Inc. with solar arrays for what will be the world’s largest solar farm, according to Consumer Energy Report.
Energy alchemy: Navy turns sea water into jet fuelThe Naval Research Laboratory has designed a system which harvests carbon dioxide and hydrogen, the raw ingredients of jet fuel, from seawater, according to OilPrice.com.
Oil production in US hits highest level in 15 yearsReports from the Energy Department released this week show that overall crude output in the US rose 3.7 percent to 6.5 million barrels per day by the week of September 21, according to Consumer Energy Report.
Oil demand slumps in AugustTotal petroleum deliveries for August 2012 were at their lowest level for the month in 15 years and domestic oil production followed similar trends, according to OilPrice.com.
Is the world economy suffering from 'high-priced fuel syndrome'?The major issue for many countries is that oil is becoming too expensive for the economy to afford, Tverberg writes.
Exxon, Rosneft eye oil in nuclear wastelandExxon Mobil and Rosneft are planning to drill for oil in the Kara Sea, which the Soviet Union used as a dumping ground for radioactive material for more than 25 years, according to OilPrice.com.
Coal makes a comeback in EuropeWhile regulation limits coal power in the US, Hunt writes that the energy source is on the rise in Europe.
The impact of declining oil exportsEach year a dwindling global pool of exports has been generating ever greater competition among importing nations and has become a largely unheralded force behind record high oil prices, Cobb writes.
A 'green' peek at America's largest coal plantTV show 'Designing Spaces' looks at Prairie State Energy Campus, one of the most efficient and low emissions producing coal-fueled power plants in the US.
The solution to cleaning fracking water? A spongeA new 'smart sponge' may be the key to reducing the pollution caused by runoff water from drilling for oil and gas, according to OilPrice.com.
Canada gets cold feet over China oil dealLawmakers in Ottawa have expressed reservations over a possible Chinese takeover of a major Canadian energy company.
