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Keyword - Energy
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EXCLUSIVE: Fusion delays sow concern - Premium content
Construction on ITER won't begin until 2010.
13 October 2009
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Renewable technologies increase energy sprawl - Premium content
Biofuels will have the greatest impact on land use and habitat, study finds.
26 August 2009
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Stimulus money unveiled for green cars - Premium content
But a boost for established manufacturers leaves innovative companies out in the cold, critics say.
6 August 2009
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US Congress revives hydrogen vehicle research - Premium content
House votes is set to put programme back on the road.
21 July 2009
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Automotive bailout may affect research - Premium content
US bankruptcies could influence industry collaborations with universities.
9 June 2009
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Fusion dreams delayed - Premium content
International partners are likely to scale back the first version of the ITER reactor.
27 May 2009
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US climate legislation advances
Republican opposition fails to halt measures to tackle emissions.
27 May 2009
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Bioelectricity better than biofuels for transport - Premium content
Crops give more kilometres per hectare if used to power electric vehicles.
7 May 2009
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Briefing: Energy research centres unveiled - Premium content
US Department of Energy rolls out funding for science partnerships.
1 May 2009
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California in clean-fuel drive - Premium content
State rule says biofuels aren't so green.
29 April 2009
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China's greener future?
Cutting carbon emissions need not slow economic growth, Beijing told.
28 April 2009
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India's electioneers make bold pledges on science - Premium content
Major parties back climate plan, but differ on nuclear policy.
22 April 2009
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IN BRIEF: Climate experts urge G20 to make stimulus green - Premium content
1 April 2009
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Stern message for G20 summit
Stimulus packages must focus more resources on clean energy and averting climate change, report says.
30 March 2009
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Energy agency scrambles to spend stimulus money - Premium content
Nobel laureate struggles to prioritize projects.
25 February 2009
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John Holdren: adviser on science, fish and wine - Premium content
Confirmation for Obama's candidate.
18 February 2009
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IN BRIEF: Democrats hasten action on climate legislation - Premium content
21 January 2009
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Renewable energy: Beijing's windy bet - Premium content
After spurning wind power, China has swung around and embraced this clean energy. But the nation's love affair with wind may be spinning out of control, finds David Cyranoski.
21 January 2009
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Prices plummet on carbon market - Premium content
Falling oil prices slash value of greenhouse gas emission allowances.
20 January 2009
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Science tipped to score in Obama cash stimulus - Premium content
Researchers jockey for a piece of the US economic package.
14 January 2009
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IN BRIEF: Spanish solar companies slammed over subsidy fraud - Premium content
31 December 2008
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Salmon study sparks row over dams - Premium content
Results dismissing link to fish mortality are called into question.
27 October 2008
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IN BRIEF: UK launches department to focus on climate change - Premium content
8 October 2008
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Brazil braced for unexpected oil wealth - Premium content
President appoints committee to exploit reservoirs found on coast.
24 September 2008
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Europe's energy funding 'unbalanced' - Premium content
International Energy Agency calls for more funds for non-nuclear technologies in Europe.
10 September 2008
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IN BRIEF: China pauses on turning coal into liquid fuel - Premium content
10 September 2008
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Q+A: All fired up - Premium content
American climate scientist James Hansen explains why he's testifying against coal.
5 September 2008
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IN BRIEF: The energy election - Premium content
In the first of a special series of election podcasts starting this week, Nature gathered an expert panel to discuss how energy and climate issues will play out in the US presidential election. Excerpts:
3 September 2008
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Do the locomotion - Premium content
Rail travel produces more than a third less emissions than road transport #20; even though trains carry 7% of traffic, they emit just 0.2% of the carbon monoxide, 2% of nitrogen oxides and 1% of the volatile organic compounds. Although electric passenger trains are relatively green, most of the world's trains are used for haulage and run on diesel. In the latest of our Future Transport series, Duncan Graham-Rowe sees trains switching to a greener track.
27 August 2008
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Whatever floats your boat - Premium content
Shipping is one of the most fuel-efficient ways to move freight, but the industry still produces significant greenhouse-gas emissions, including more than a quarter of the world's nitrogen oxides emissions. And it also produces more sulphur dioxide emissions than all land transportation combined. In the latest of our Future Transport series, Duncan Graham-Rowe looks at the new wave in shipping.
20 August 2008
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Energy alternatives: Electricity without carbon - Premium content
13 August 2008
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US backs its biofuels - Premium content
Environmental agency denies request to cut back on ethanol.
7 August 2008
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Catalyst heralded as solar-power breakthrough - Premium content
Add simple metal salts to a beaker of water, apply a current, and watch the clean, green hydrogen bubble forth.
31 July 2008
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China declares ambitious alternative-energy plans - Premium content
26 March 2008
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Can you build a 'green' city in the desert? - Premium content
The United Arab Emirates has little cause to boast of green credentials, but that shouldn#25;t make us too cynical about its new eco-city, says Philip Ball.
29 February 2008
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Energy crisis upsets platinum market - Premium content
Supply squeeze imminent for precious metal.
20 February 2008
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Energy: Not your father's biofuels - Premium content
If biofuels are to help the fight against climate change, they have to be made from more appropriate materials and in better ways. Jeff Tollefson asks what innovation can do to improve the outlook.
20 February 2008
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Fabric may make the first real power suit - Premium content
Nanofibres made that produce power when rubbed together.
13 February 2008
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Natural gas back in favour with US power companies - Premium content
Coal gets cold shoulder as utilities anticipate carbon legislation.
13 February 2008
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Europe spells out action plan for emissions targets - Premium content
Heavy industry set to pay for allowances under carbon-trading scheme.
30 January 2008
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