British, American and Norwegian engineers are in a race to design and build the holy grail of wind turbines - giant, 10MW offshore machines twice the size and power of anything seen before - that could transform the global energy market because of their economies of scale.
Channel 4 News gains exclusive access to the UK's first shale gas well, a new way of extracting natural gas from underground rocks which could profoundly change the energy market.
Adding insult to the Gulf's injury, a wellhead hit by a tug boat is now spewing oil near a Louisiana marsh area, officials said Tuesday. The oil is shooting up 20 feet into the air, the office of Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said. The well is in inland waterways on the border of Plaquemines and Jefferson parishes, about 65 miles south of New Orleans, and in a marsh area not accessible by road. Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts was quoted as saying by WWL-TV in New Orleans that "there is a pretty good amount of oil flowing there." He did not have a more specific estimate.
Adding insult to the Gulf's injury, a wellhead hit by a tug boat is now spewing oil near a Louisiana marsh area, officials said Tuesday.
The oil is shooting up 20 feet into the air, the office of Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said.
The well is in inland waterways on the border of Plaquemines and Jefferson parishes, about 65 miles south of New Orleans, and in a marsh area not accessible by road.
Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts was quoted as saying by WWL-TV in New Orleans that "there is a pretty good amount of oil flowing there." He did not have a more specific estimate.
While BP publicly stuck to claims that its blow-out well was leaking at rate of 5,000 gallons of oil per day, the company was privately operating under the assumption that at least five times that amount was gushing into the Gulf, according to documents released today by congressional investigators. BP's internal estimate of 53,000 barrels per day is buried in one of the company's requests to use more than the maximum threshold of dispersants established by the EPA, which the Coast Guard released earlier this month. In letters dated July 6 and 11 to the government's on-scene coordinator in the Gulf, at that time Coast Guard Admiral James Watson, BP Chief Operating Office Doug Suttles cited the 53,000 figure in justifying the company's request to use 25,200 gallons of dispersant per day to break up the oil.
While BP publicly stuck to claims that its blow-out well was leaking at rate of 5,000 gallons of oil per day, the company was privately operating under the assumption that at least five times that amount was gushing into the Gulf, according to documents released today by congressional investigators.
BP's internal estimate of 53,000 barrels per day is buried in one of the company's requests to use more than the maximum threshold of dispersants established by the EPA, which the Coast Guard released earlier this month. In letters dated July 6 and 11 to the government's on-scene coordinator in the Gulf, at that time Coast Guard Admiral James Watson, BP Chief Operating Office Doug Suttles cited the 53,000 figure in justifying the company's request to use 25,200 gallons of dispersant per day to break up the oil.
July 27 (Reuters) - The amount of new wind power installed in the United States fell by 71 percent in the first half of 2010 from a year ago as government support for the renewable energy source waned, the U.S. wind industry umbrella group said on Tuesday. About 700 megawatts of new wind capacity were brought on line in the first six months of the year, although that figure was expected to grow in the second half since there were more than 5,500 megawatts currently under construction. New wind power installation fell behind new coal-fired plant additions for the first time in five years, Denise Bode, chief executive of the American Wind Energy Association told a conference call. U.S. wind installations had reached a record 10,000 megawatts in 2009, equal to the capacity of about 10 new coal-fired plants
July 27 (Reuters) - The amount of new wind power installed in the United States fell by 71 percent in the first half of 2010 from a year ago as government support for the renewable energy source waned, the U.S. wind industry umbrella group said on Tuesday.
About 700 megawatts of new wind capacity were brought on line in the first six months of the year, although that figure was expected to grow in the second half since there were more than 5,500 megawatts currently under construction.
New wind power installation fell behind new coal-fired plant additions for the first time in five years, Denise Bode, chief executive of the American Wind Energy Association told a conference call.
U.S. wind installations had reached a record 10,000 megawatts in 2009, equal to the capacity of about 10 new coal-fired plants
The port of Tulcea in Romania gradually drops out of sight as we sail down the Danube. It takes two hours to reach the little town of Sulina, at the southern extremity of the delta, where the river spills into the Black Sea. It feels as if we have reached the end of the world. Two thousand years ago the Roman empire chose this point as its eastern limit. More recently, in the 19th century, the European Commission of the Danube established its headquarters at Sulina.But the fine buildings belong to another era. After the second world war communism put an end to hopes of development. "We did not even manage to build a little bridge across the river," complains Stefan Raileanu, a vet with a passion for the wild delta horses.
The port of Tulcea in Romania gradually drops out of sight as we sail down the Danube. It takes two hours to reach the little town of Sulina, at the southern extremity of the delta, where the river spills into the Black Sea. It feels as if we have reached the end of the world. Two thousand years ago the Roman empire chose this point as its eastern limit. More recently, in the 19th century, the European Commission of the Danube established its headquarters at Sulina.
But the fine buildings belong to another era. After the second world war communism put an end to hopes of development. "We did not even manage to build a little bridge across the river," complains Stefan Raileanu, a vet with a passion for the wild delta horses.
Also, Rome owned most of romania at that time, it was Bulgaria aka Thrace that resisted until the Christian era. keep to the Fen Causeway
BP petrol stations across central London were temporarily shut down by activists today in a move they said was designed to make the troubled oil company adopt greener policies.Greenpeace claimed supporters had at one time stopped the pumps at 46 outlets by stealing parts of safety switches in forecourts - action the company said was "childish and irresponsible".The protests, coinciding with the replacement of BP chief Tony Hayward by Bob Dudley, was meant to encouraged the public to help speed-up the end of the oil age.
BP petrol stations across central London were temporarily shut down by activists today in a move they said was designed to make the troubled oil company adopt greener policies.
Greenpeace claimed supporters had at one time stopped the pumps at 46 outlets by stealing parts of safety switches in forecourts - action the company said was "childish and irresponsible".
The protests, coinciding with the replacement of BP chief Tony Hayward by Bob Dudley, was meant to encouraged the public to help speed-up the end of the oil age.
