At the world's largest electricity-producing geothermal field, California energy company Calpine is developing a process to produce power from hot rocks without water.
Loik Le Floch-Prigent, former CEO of international oil firm Elf, has been extradited to Togo from the Ivory Coast on suspicion of being involved in a massive fraud scheme.
Japan announced today that it would stop using nuclear power completely within 30 years, a major turn-around from the country that once planned to generate more than half its electricity from atomic sources.
"We will use all possible political resources to realize the goal of having no nuclear plants operating by the end of the 2030s," a report by the government's energy and environmental committee states, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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