I've always been an advocate of keeping-it-local with regards to politics and energy production. Growing up in a beach community, I've always been interested in this type of technology for energy production.
Self-optimising, highly efficient and inspired by bird flight: with the DualWingGenerator, Festo has developed an extraordinary technology platform that uses two pairs of opposing wings to generate power.
Festo, the company that studied the way birds fly through its 2011 SmartBird (pictured above), has created DualWingGenerator. It challenges the assumption that the windmill is the end-all, be-all of wind tech by replacing rotor blades with wings.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the US Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute have engineered a bacterium that could yield a new source of high-energy hydrocarbon fuel for rocketry and other aerospace uses.
In an effort to bring reliable electricity supplies to emerging regions and remote island communities, Panasonic has developed an expandable, portable, self-contained photovoltaic system.
Elon Musk and his cousin Lyndon Rive have previously warned utilities that they must adapt to growing pressures for renewables or face existential declines.
Since the first discovery of the massive Jubilee oilfield in Ghana by a start-up company, the West African playing field has begun to change, and so too have investor sentiments, disappointed most recently by the low fourth-quarter 2013 results of ma
The standoff between the U.S. and the EU on one hand, and Russia on the other, intensified pretty quickly late last week. The U.S. quickly slapped heavier sanctions on Russia after its annexation of Crimea, leading to a mutual escalation of retaliato
Bikes are an area of constant innovation, with their simplicity and popularity making them ripe for adaptation. But how much functionality can you squeeze into one bike?
It's classic peak oil. It never went away, we've just been able to paper over it with free money for the past half decade.
Seems like the majors realize the gig is up. They're selling unconventional assets in a big way, wanting to mitigate risk
A low cost, easy to build alternative to the large biomass fuel briquette press. Made completely from wood with hand tools the presses can produce briquettes at a rate of about 12 in 10 minutes.
It’s easy for a car that’s all sharp lines and flaring wings to catch the eye, but sometimes it’s the ones with the deceptively conservative styling that catch you by surprise.
Graphene, the two-dimensional lattice of carbon atoms, may be the wonder material du jour, but ultrathin layers of other elements are also proving to be an exciting area of research.
Getting into space is an expensive business where every little bit of extra weight, which includes the fuel powering the spacecraft, can add thousands of dollars to the cost of a mission.
The H2ope system gives you back luxuries lost when going “off-grid” by providing pressurized water and energy. Not just by providing safe drinking water, but giving you quality of life.
When we consume sugar, it's converted into energy through the process of metabolism. Researchers are currently exploring this conversion process in various forms to be used for everyday energy and power.
The future of oil exploration lies in new technology--from massive data-processing supercomputers to 4D seismic to early-phase airborne spy technology that can pinpoint prospective reservoirs.