It’s always sunny in Spain, right? That might be a bit of an overstatement but the country hasn’t garnered a sunny reputation for nothing: cities like Huelva and Seville boast nearly 3,000 hours of sunshine per year.
un Catalytix CEO Mike Decelle says one advantage of the company’s technology is that it uses cheap ingredients. “We’re sourcing some this stuff really, really cheaply in ton quantities [from China] right now,” he says, standing in a doorway so the na
United States, the European Union and Japan fund a much broader fusion energy research effort, expanding the program to include a large number of promising devices and fusion fuels in order to maximize the chances of getting economical fusion power a
In a major first, an experiment in the California lab got more energy out of its fuel than went into the fuel. We're one step closer to ignition, when the reaction becomes self-sustaining.
California’s three biggest utilities are sparring with their own customers about systems that store energy from the sun, opening another front in the battle that’s redefining the mission of electricity generators.
Platinum is the work-horse of many catalytic processes. It's become particularly important recently since it can drive key reactions in new technologies such as fuel cells or photoelectrochemical cells.
This week, scientists from Duke University published evidence that dangerous levels of radioactive water from natural gas drilling operations is being released into streams that feed into the water supply of western Pennsylvania cities, including Pit
A young startup is building a business around installing solar panels and batteries. Innovation in the energy industry isn’t just about new technologies, it’s about new business models, too
Hundreds of thousands of words will be written about the latest report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Here, in 10 words, is the bottom line: we have to leave most fossil fuels in the ground. It really is that simple.
Where the rubber hits the road is getting the fatty acids to convert to their corresponding gasoline alkanes, which the team achieved by introducing a new pathway while enhancing the culture environment.
The result is a gasoline solution or “broth
The economy must be doing a lot better than all the wretched indexes (number of people no longer even trying to find work, number of people on the dole, etc.) indicate. Otherwise, GM would not have announced it is committed to developing a new electr
A team of students from the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands just brought the electric vehicle 0-60 world acceleration record crashing down.
On the 26th of September, residents of Inupiat villages in Alaska and
some of their allies spoke out in Lafayette Park against plans to drill
for oil in their territory.
Last year we told you about ZBoard, a wonder of an electric skateboard that can hit 17 miles per hour and reportedly gets the carbon footprint equivalent of up to 1500 miles/gallon.
If you haven’t been in a bubble cut off from all forms of media lately, it would be impossible to have missed all of the warnings being issued about the impending loss of our electrical grid