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Visionary Elon Musk has reached a big goal in his long-term plan to power the world with electricity instead of fossil fuels. There are now 500 Tesla Supercharger Stations around the world, amounting to 2,800 individual Superchargers. It was only...
Wind energy is quickly growing in popularity, and turbines are now a common sight for many driving through the countryside. Energy collected from wind contributes to electricity generation more and more every year, and now accounts for a solid 2-3% of...
Water shortages are quickly becoming a serious threat. In fact, the World Resources Institute reports that over 30 countries will likely have trouble meeting their population's water needs by just 2040. Luckily, researchers are thinking hard about how to create...
India launches the world's first fully solar powered airport at Kochi (Cochin), Kerala. The Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) had started the solar power venture in 2013 by installing a 100 kWp solar photovoltaic plant in its premises. Later, it...
Easy to make, DIY compost bin, can take care of your biodegradable waste and serve as a beautiful green centerpiece, and herb garden, in your back yard. Building a compost bin in the back yard, which turns biological waste from our...
A small power plant that can convert the temperature difference between deep ocean and surface ocean waters into electricity was unveiled in Hawaii last week, the first of its kind to be connected to the grid. Even though ocean thermal energy...
Tesla's innovative technology is in the news again, this time for breaking the Consumer Reports rating system. The Tesla Model S P85D "insane" mode performed so well during testing that it received a score of 103 points out of a possible 100. Consumer...
It is difficult to be an environmentally-friendly consumer. People are more interested in green living than ever, which is great. The downside is that marketers will claim that something is eco-friendly just to make a profit. The tips below...
Google has launched the Project Sunroof, a set of tools, which can help us estimate how much we can save by switching to solar. The creation of Alphabet and Android Experiments, the announcement stating Sundar Pichai as Google's new CEO, and...
A Stockholm study has discovered that buying carbon credits from Russia and Ukraine may be doing little to nothing for the environment. The countries have been selling carbon credits to the UK as part of a UN deal, and in some cases...