How LNG suppliers are coping with increasing demand and prices? In late 2003, a multinational oil major offered to sell an Indian public sector power company liquefied natural gas (LNG) at $4.5-5 per million British thermal unit (mmbtu).
LAKE STATION, Ind., Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Tattoo studios in towns like Lake Station, Ind., have, in the past decade, seen an enormous change in their clientele, and in attitudes towards tattoos.
MIT researchers are developing a half-sized gasoline engine that performs like its full-sized cousin but offers fuel efficiency approaching that of today's hybrid engine system -- at a far lower cost. The key? Carefully controlled injection of ethanol, an increasingly common biofuel, directly into the engine's cylinders when there's a hill to be climbed or a car to be passed.
Gas prices have been dropping lately -- but that isn't stopping people from researching alternative fuels. A really promising project is moving forward in France.
NICE, France, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- A father and son in France are working on a car that runs on compressed air. Guy Negre, who has designed aircraft engines and a Formula One race car, has been working on the idea for years.
With prices like these, maybe it's time to put some hard thought into what we could be filling up with. The Iranians say they have a solar-powered car. Engineers in the U.S. and Europe say they have tried hydrogen. But, how about air? CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar reports. CBS News Interactive: Alternative Energy
BEAVER CREEK - At 11 a.m., the day shift of snowmakers shuffled into the Trapper's Pumphouse, past the giant air compressors and water pumps, while the night crew shuffled out.
Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Ingersoll-Rand Co., the maker of Bobcat backhoes and Thermo-King refrigerated trucks, posted lower profit in the third quarter and said the U.S. housing slump will hurt results this year.