This week, MidAmerican Energy Holdings, Warren Buffett’s company, acquired two enormous solar power plants.
The two plants together represent the largest solar assets in the world. Scheduled to be built in Southern California, the Antelope Valley Solar Projects, as they...
While it is largely unpredictable if the US will ever adopt electric vehicles to the masses, with Mintel’s automotive analysts being more encouraged than Indiana University’s researchers, the case of Norway is rather different.
Even though batteries of electric vehicles...
Alternative fuels, which include electric and hybrid electric vehicles, have a lot to offer when it comes to saving money at the pump as well as reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
While there are just over fifty electrified vehicles available in...
We first saw the Renault ZOE concept back in 2009 at the Frankfurt Auto Show, and it was named the 2012 Paris Motor Show's “Best Green Car,” due to be released this year. The Renault ZOE is the latest...
For a second time in one month Iranian officials will close public schools, universities and government offices in Teheran on Saturday. The reason, as announced by Teheran’s governor Morteza Tamadon on Thursday, is the extremely high levels of pollutants...
Here in the US, since 1989, we have seen Lexus, Toyota's luxury brand here in the US, grow from one model, the flagship LS 400, to fifteen models today. Lexus has led the luxury vehicle revolution here in the...
The American Institute of Physics' (AIP) journal Applied Physics Letters, published a report, which shows a new application of spintronics. According to the study, it is now possible to convert magnetic energy into electric voltage by changing the dynamics of...
Each month, 42 people die because of landmines. These landmines are a major problem in 81 countries across the globe. It is common for the Bedouins in Egypt to lose limbs during routine desert crossings. To date, there is...
UK farmers are convinced that genetic modification of food crops might be the solution to better adaptation to climate change.
Drought and flood-resistant crops would be the solution to the increasing losses as a result of extreme weather conditions.
This statement...
Researchers at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton have compared reconstructions of atmospheric CO2 sea level concentrations over the past 40 million years, and they have determined that greenhouse gases equaling 400 parts per million, a concentration similar to today’s...
