With all this talk about electric cars, solar power, and wind energy being bandied about, we haven't heard much about how to power those gas-guzzling tin cans of the sky. That's why NASA tapped the smarty-pants engineers at MIT...

Someone at Virginia-based Catch the Wind went to the Doctor Evil School of Making Things Better — just put a frikkin' laser beam on it. Catch the Wind has a fiber-optic, laser-based LIDAR system that can give wind turbines a...

You've probably noticed the term "clean coal" bandied about a lot lately. It's a great-sounding phrase, evoking images of plentiful, cheap energy generated by squeaky-clean power plants emitting a thin wisp of smoke that smells like a cross between...

There's power in them thar waves! That's why Portugal built Agucadoura, the world's first wave farm off its coast, consisting of three Wave Energy Converters generating a total of 2.25MW. The elongated metal contraptions bob up and down with...