Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 12:52pm
Running out of trash of its own, Oslo, Norway is importing waste from around the world to heat the city.
renewable energy stories
Monday, April 22, 2013 - 5:14pm
Lockheed Martin is planning on developing the world's largest Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion system to power a net-zero energy resort in China.
Monday, April 1, 2013 - 4:49pm
Georgia Tech has invented a recyclable, tree-based solar cell that you can wash off with water when you're done with it.
Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 5:04pm
This airplane will fly across the continent, powered by nothing but the sun.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 12:28pm
Why yes, it was designed by a doctor.
Sunday, February 10, 2013 - 10:42pm
They say that everything is bigger in Texas. This giant new battery pounds that point home, by storing enough juice to power 17,000 homes.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 2:47pm
The only way that solar power is ever going to contribute an appreciable amount of energy to the betterment (and cheaperment) of society is if we plaster solar panels on everything, everywhere, all the time. And we might just be able to do it now, with this new generation of panels that are thinner than a strand of human hair by a factor of 20.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 9:04am
An interesting new entry in the solar power market is blooming in a desert in Southern Spain. 50 mirrors track the sun and reflect its light into a 115-foot high tulip-shaped tower; the concentrated rays cause the air in the bulb to heat up to over 1800 degrees Fahrenheit. The super heated air is then forced into a combustion chamber where it expands, powering a turbine generator and creating electricity.
Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 12:44pm
For those who use wind energy, and for general kite-flying purposes, it'd be nice to know where the wind in the United States is at any given moment. With this real time wind map, you can!
Friday, March 30, 2012 - 2:52pm
It's hard to beat the energy density of gasoline. Batteries don't come anywhere close, which is why nobody likes to use them for anything. But what if we could just take electrical energy and turn it into gasoline, and what if the only other ingredient we needed to do this was evil carbon dioxide, how awesome would that be? Liquid electricity: we can do it.
