Africa has a chance to…
The US renewable energy sector…
What happens when you’re a small country—like Sweden—and you want to generate power by converting waste? You have to look beyond your own borders for garbage. Sweden, population…
The US state of Utah is about to become home to a new 5-megawatt recovered energy generation (REG) power plant thanks to a joint venture between online auction superstar eBay…
The two bottlenecks inhibiting further use of renewable energy systems are cost and the fact that the sun doesn’t always shine or the wind blow-in one word, storage. While mass…
Could human corpses end up providing our next renewable energy source, or is this controversial idea dead in the water?A crematorium in the city of Durham in…
Despite rising electricity surcharges due to renewable energy subsidies, Germans on 22 September voted out the only political party that stood in the way of renewable energy efforts and would…
War by social media. Should the US bomb Syria? - Like or dislike. The US, as a social media nation, has thousands of points of view on this…
When I got home last night, I read every page of Elon Musk's 57-page plan for the Hyperloop.My conclusion:It's a great idea, and we should…
I’m sure you have heard the statement that an electric car is only as green as the electricity that is used to power it. Climate Central performed a study…
The world was moving faster towards reducing its reliance on carbon intensive energy consumption in the 1970s and 1980s than in the past several decades. In fact, over the past…
Did you know that a Kiwi is not just a fruit? It is New Zealand’s native flightless bird and a slang term for a New Zealander. Did you also know…
Maritime acreage about 9 miles off the coast of Rhode Island went on the auction block Wednesday for wind energy development. The Bureau of Ocean Management said it’s the first-ever…
For the last couple of months I’ve been digging into the hydrocarbon space and studies from LNG exports to NGVs to gasoline, so it seemed a prudent time to go…
This is the 2nd instalment in a series that looks at the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous post – Renewable Energy Status Update…
Today I begin a series that looks at the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Because the past two posts have dealt with the Keystone XL pipeline…
Wind and solar plants do the most good where they can reduce pollution and carbon dioxide emissions, so the best place to build them might not be where you think.
Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have managed to accurately characterize the iron oxide nanostructures to be used in producing hydrogen at the “lowest known possible cost”.
Electrical power phenomenon with "miraculous potential" could lead to more sustainable forms of flight.Flight powered by ionic wind: a notion from the wilder shores of UFO spotting? Or…
It’s been a great year for Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA), which everyone’s eyeing for a takeover: the company’s stock is up 194% this year, it’s recorded its first ever quarterly…
President Obama made a historic visit to Germany this week, sounding more like a candidate with a mandate to lead instead of a president approaching his lame-duck era. During an…
Spending on renewable energy is undergoing a geographic shift, with developing countries investing more last year despite an overall 12 per cent drop in global spending since 2011, according to…