Decommissioning coal-fired plants saved lives and improved crop yields in the US
Natural gas, while not ideal, is still less dirty to burn than coal.
Tag: power
London’s Square Mile to use 100% renewable energy by October
A step in the right direction.
Functional hydrogen-boron fusion could be here “within the next decade”, powered by huge lasers
Stable fusion is the holy grail of energy production.
Solid energy — how batteries power the world
Power in the palm of your hand.
Atomic-sandwich material could make computers 100 times more energy efficient
Don't need a calculator to know that's a lot.
Cooking nuclear waste into glass and ceramic materials could provide safe, efficient containment
Vitrification is the way to go.
The combined capacity of the renewable energy sector overtakes that of coal
No more black lung.
Iceland drilling project close to plugging into the Mid-Atlantic ridge
In a few months, Iceland will be drawing power directly from molten rock.
The U.S. plans to build the most advanced fusion reactor ever
Endless clean energy is just too good to pass up.
Why the first, tiny offshore wind farm in the U.S. is a huge step forward
These five turbines signal a change through out the country.
Chernobyl is to become the world’s largest solar power plant
This huge area will finally produce energy -- 30 years after the meltdown.
First solar-powered boat to cross the Atlantic embarks on historical journey
A little ship braving the ocean on its own.
The price of solar keeps falling, Dubai received the lowest ever asking bid for energy
A few days ago, India's Energy Minister Piyush Goyal announced that solar energy became cheaper to produce than coal-powered, costing ...
This is how one French power plant produces electricity using cheese
The town of Albertville in southeastern France has begun using cheese to generate electricity. Their power plant, build in the ...
UK set to unveil the world’s largest floating solar array
The largest floating solar array in the world is to be unveiled later this month, on the Queen Elizabeth II ...
MIT develops new solar cells, 400 times more efficient and light enough to drape a soap bubble
An MIT research team has developed a new technology that will allow for the creation of lighter and thinner solar cells ...
Less burns for more sunshine: renewable and fossil fuel technology integration sounds like a beach-goer’s dream
Solar-aided power plants could mean less CO2 for a fraction of the costs of solar-only, paving the way for a ...
A Position of Power alters the Voice in a Way that transmits Who’s in Charge to Others
Inspired by Margaret Thatcher's formidable political skills, researchers in the US sought to understand how a position of power changes ...
Future cars could be partially powered by their bodywork
Parts of the car's bodywork could double up as it's batter in a not so far away future; at least ...
Significant breakthrough in biofuels
I was writing a while ago that major biofuel production is not really that far away and the good news ...