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As regular readers will know, we cover more than our fair share of breakthroughs promising next-generation super-efficient solar cells.
For an officer of the law, motorcycles have distinct advantages over the patrol car.
Harley-Davidson is more than a motorcycle, or even a brand. It is an icon, one that brings to mind big, loud bikes ridden by burly men with tattoos and beards. The company has long been known for rumbling V-twin engines and the open road. All of whic
Harley-Davidson's iconic roar is likely getting an update Thursday, according to a short video on the motorcycle maker's YouTube page.
However, even that previously published data, and the grim analyses which accompanied it could not prepare me for the horror story contained in data passed along by an alert reader. U.S. "gasoline consumption" – as measured by the U.S. Energy Informa
ExxonMobil has carried out a "major evacuation,'' and BP had evacuated 20 percent of its staff, the head of Iraq's state-run South Oil Company said Wednesday.
We recently explained how Tesla needs to build what it is calling a "gigafactory" for batteries in order to survive.
It's happening again: Elon Musk is having a huge day.
Here's a map from BP's Statistical Review of World Energy summarizing all of the world's oil import/export activity in millions of tonnes. Scroll down for a table with details.
SolarCity wants to build one of the world's largest solar plants in the state of New York.
We recently explained how Tesla needs to build what it is calling a "gigafactory" for batteries in order to survive.
Ukraine on a Prepayment Plan, And Didn't Prepay for Any Gas
The Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod or "Brotherhood" natural gas pipeline in the Poltava region of central Ukraine has gone up in flames.
Last year, Phinergy and Alcoa announced the development of an aluminum-air battery that could give an electric car a potential range of 1,000 miles (1,609 km), though stops for a water top-up would be needed every couple of hundred miles.
Researchers at the University of Toronto have manufactured and tested a new type of colloidal quantum dots (CQD), that, unlike previous attempts, doesn't lose performance as they keep in contact with oxygen.
The QEG is a crisp, clean, and modern device based on Tesla's public domain design and built with incredible engineering precision (for example it has over 300 precision cut steel plates each at 18 ½ 1,000ths of an inch thick).
Nissan's ZEOD RC hybrid electric racer has claimed a new record for electric vehicles at Le Mans, hitting 300 km/h (186 mph) down Mulsanne Straight at Circuit de la Sarthe.
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Is this credible science? Good if so.
Stop signs waste fuel and are not "green"... I've made it my personal mission to educate people about the uselessness and waste that is the "Stop Sign" in western culture.
China continues to build a lot of coal plants and for the last 10-20 years China has built modern coal plants that have the latest pollution mitigation technology. Why did they not turn on pollution control until recent protests about air quality. It
HP demonstrated on Wednesday a breakthrough computer project from HP Labs known internally as "The Machine."
Many scientists believe that the future of clean and renewable energy could come from nuclear fusion.
I am surprised that so many people are unaware of the smart meter controversy.
Which cars of 2014 get the best mileage? The EPA ranks vehicles by fuel efficiency, including electric, hybrid and gas, on its site Fueleconomy.gov .
Renewable and high-capacity energy systems like fuel cells and metal-air batteries are key components in any scenario on future energy systems free of fossil fuels.
Almost all strategies for solar energy harvest and solar energy storage that exist today are developed as independent technologies.
HVAC heavyweight Honeywell unveils Lyric, an attractive and eager-to-adapt household thermostat with GPS-based functionality.
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a new graphene-based supercapacitor that uses a nanoscale architecture to double its energy and power performance compared to commercially-available alternatives.