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Nürburgring times are the yardstick that all new performance cars are measured. A lap under 10 minutes is good. Anything under eight minutes is astounding. But the new benchmark for the next generation of hybrid hypercars is seven minutes.
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Never ones to turn down a chance to sing about vehicles, we can’t help but take a little inspiration from Zager and Evans: "In the year 2025, if man is still alive, if race cars can survive, what will we find?" The Los Angeles Auto Show Design Challe
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Time for a selection of Christmas Gifts for our ON-Grid friends and family.
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SolarCity’s new battery system might help solar become a significant source of electricity.
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Oil production in Texas has hit its highest monthly rate on record, more than doubling in less than three years, according to new federal data.
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A team of theoretical physicists from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University is predicting that stanene, a single layer of tin atoms laid out in a two-dimensional structure...
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Energy is everywhere, and I don’t mean a feng shui type of energy. I mean real energy, the good stuff that powers all of our electronics.
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Using plastic to absorb light could lower the cost of solar power.
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A Japanese company has taken stock of the world's energy needs and come up with a solution that is quite literally a moon shot.
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When Hurricane Sandy swept across the East Coast last year, millions of people were without power after the initial onslaught of the storm.
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Volcanoes don’t generally have that many uses. They're good for human sacrifice, amazing photos, and being the basis for my third favorite word: "volcanology," which refers to the study of volcanoes. Oh yeah, and they make killer health spas.
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A Japanese firm announces its innovative solution to the nation's energy problems - a 250 mile-wide belt of solar panels on the moon
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A 5.7 magnitude earthquake on the Gulf coast near Iran's sole nuclear power plant killed seven people and injured 30 on Thursday, emergency response chief Hassan Qadami told state media.
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An Icelandic company figures out how to make methanol from waste CO2, but the economics may not work without a nearby volcano.
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HydroBee wants to be your personal hydroelectric generator
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If you've ever wondered what would happen if someone made one of Parrot's AR.Drones big enough to sit in, then heads-up, E-Volo's Volocopter VC200 is, broadly speaking, just that.
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New inks and tools allow 3-D printing of lithium-ion technology.
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As a science fiction fan, I’ve spent my life waiting for the day the government offers matching silver bodysuits to everyone.
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Recently, the search has been on for longer lasting batteries.
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SolidEnergy says its new battery materials store more energy and won’t catch fire.
As Canadian energy stocks are finally seeing a bit of a push, and demand for Canadian commodities looks set to rise, juniors are confident that economics will ensure that Canadian oil—the cheapest in the world—will find its way to more markets
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I speak from experience when I say that it's actually fun to go into the woods, saw up fallen trees, then bring the wood home to burn over the winter.
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Sir: Re: Gary D.'s piece on generator use. Good article; I've learned a few additional things over the years about generator usage which your readers may find helpful.
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NASA's Peregrine Hybrid Sounding Rocket motor was hot-fire tested at Ames Research Center on Nov. 12, 2013. It uses paraffin-based fuel and nitrous oxide as the oxidizer for highly efficient combustion.
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Starting Jan.1, 2014, manufacturers will stop making 60- and 40-watt incandescent light bulbs to comply with new federal energy efficiency laws.
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Polymer glue helps fracture-prone high-capacity batteries last through more charges.
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Polymer glue helps fracture-prone high-capacity batteries last through more charges.
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The Environmental Protection Agency announced it is scaling back its ethanol blending requirement for 2014.
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Stanford researchers say new materials could help lower the cost of producing fuel with solar energy.
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few years ago, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were touted as the Wave of the Future that would revolutionize materials engineering from semiconductors to space elevators.
