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A lot of milestones in clean energy have been reached in the last few years, made possible by forward-thinking companies, such as SolarCity. SolarCity, of course, is a solar power company, enabling thousands of residences, municipalities, and businesses, to adopt...
Aside from polar bears and penguins, should we be paying more attention to what is going on in the Arctic, especially in relation to climate change? There is near-consensus in the scientific community that human activity is responsible for climate...
Along the streets where I live, I regularly bump into, er I actually just see, guys on mountain bikes and gals on electric scooters.  Being a biker myself, I wouldn't mind trading my bike for an electric scooter especially...
When it comes to energy storage, people have looked into countless means and technologies, yet the winning long-lasting and super efficient breakthrough is still to come. The latest contender for this title comes from a team from University of...
Harnessing energy from body movement has gained quite a bit of attention over the past years. Various technologies have been proposed that can turn the energy we constantly generate into a mean to charge electronic devices, however nothing is...
We know that renewable energy, such as that provided by SolarCity solar panel installations, is only useful as long as the sun is shining, which is where Tesla batteries come in. In fact, Tesla batteries are already being offered with...
Given that transportation is the most widespread source of carbon dioxide emissions, albeit not the greatest source, it is encouraging to see cars breaking miles-per-gallon barriers, such as the Peugeot Hybrid 208 2L, rated at 117 mpg. The quest for...
As American energy-needs continue to increase, new energy sources are required to fill in the gap, among them solar power, wind power, natural gas, and coal, to name a few. Looking at the last fifty years of renewable energy in...
Climate change is again threatening thousands of living species to extinction, as it has done to the dinosaurs during the first ice age.  Researchers from Cornell University recently published a study that says that half of the bird species...
There are tremendous benefits in maintaining the earth's tropical rain forests. Not only do they play host to thousands of animal and plant species, some of which promise to cure cancer, they are also the home to thousands of...