Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, the same crew responsible for the original stealth fighter, say they'll have a trailer-sized fusion reactor running by 2017.
Experts estimate that about 3% of all the energy in developed countries is used to treat sewage. That's a lot, and much of that energy is the result of burning fossil fuels. That may all change, however, as researchers claim to have devised an efficient process that will convert wastewater into clean energy.
Nuclear fusion is hard. But Chinese scientists say they've figured out a way to make it happen using miniscule diamond bullets fired into crystallized methane. There's one big problem with that, though: those 1mm diamonds will need to be fired at a speed of 2,232,000 mph to start up the fusion reaction.
President-elect Barack Obama's team sent out an e-mail earlier this week to people on his campaign's giant e-mail list, inviting them to send in their own ideas about energy and the environment. They want to harness the change Americans...
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...