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All-electric food truck in Philadelphia leads the way to sustainable, pollution-free, eating. Food trucks are very convenient, and few can argue that often the little vehicles appear exactly when people most need them. But truth to be told, most food trucks are...
EasyJet, one of UK's leading low cost airline companies, has announced their new plans to power planes with hydrogen fuel cells. Over the past few years, we (in Europe) witnessed an incredible boom of low cost airline companies, which offer cheap tickets to...
Giant wind turbine, designed by US scientists, promises up to 50 times higher capacity that its conventional ancestors. Offshore wind power generation has grown immensely over the last couple of years, with numerous countries competing to capture more of the strong sea winds' power....
GE, one of the world's most important lightbulb maker, has decided that they need to shift to LED lighting already, in a decision that's very detrimental to not-so-old CFLs. It's now been long since I've seen people reinventing the lightbulb...
Tesla's Powerwall is already rolling out in Australia, but what does that mean for its customers and the national grid? The Powerwall is all over the news, as the first units are already being fitted on to the homes of...
France takes solar road concept to another level- paves 1,000km (~630 miles) of city roads with solar panels. The huge success of the SolaRoad project in the Netherlands, where a bike path was covered with solar panels, was bound to...
The world's biggest solar power plant currently under construction in Morocco, can already be seen from space. In anticipation of the grand opening of Noor 1, the giant concentrate solar power plant (CSP) emerging in the Moroccan desert, everyone is...
Orison home battery system takes up electricity from the grid during cheap off-peak hours and lets you use it when the demand (and price) is the highest. For many, home energy storage is associated with storage of rooftop solar power. Yes,...
Solar power is undeniably the way of the future for energy. It allows us to harness a free, everlasting power source and convert it to electricity in order to keep our modern lives comfortable and pollution-free. But although we think of...
Device made using a pencil, some paper and some tape, can generate enough electricity to power small electronics, courtesy of researchers from University of Tokyo. A group of scientists from University of Tokyo and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland,...