The amount of carbon stored in the world's soils is more than double that of what is found in the atmosphere. Annually around 60bn tons of carbon is released from the soil due to microbial activity, yet there is...
Opting for an e-bike is not always possible, especially when our physical condition prevents us from enjoying a pedal-powered two-wheeler. Thankfully, this should not be the case for much longer. Falco's Fusion Sports Drive e-bike conversion kit measures heart rate and assesses how...
Tesla Motors isn’t the only tech company with an interest in electric vehicles, and will soon be joined, at least in China, by tech company Foxconn.
Even if you don’t know Foxconn itself, you might know some of their products,...
Rumors have it that Tesla will put up a lithium ion car battery plant in Nevada. This is probably the beginning of the end of finding lead acid batteries under your car’s hood, a century and a half after...
Sweden's waste-to-energy program is going strong, as the country announces that now only 1 percent of their waste goes to landfills, while the remaining 99% are reused or recycled.
About two years ago, all news feeds were flooded with the...
NASA'a quest to complete world's knowledge and understanding of climate change continues with their latest mission ARISE. As of now until the end of October, various high-tech instruments placed on board of a C-130 plane will be measuring radiation...
We’ve done a lot of coverage on renewable energy adoption in various places, but it seems that there is a lot of counter-coverage, to which Energiewende says “enough is enough.”
Energiewende, German for “energy transition,” isn’t anything new, but actually...
If people are willing to share any type of public transport, why are there so many taxis travelling in the same direction, with only one passenger on board? This question is now even more relevant, after a team of...
Bio-engineering techniques are rapidly becoming a very powerful tool for scientists to make bacteria produce virtually anything. The latest invention comes from a Finnish research team, who modified E.coli bacteria in a way that they can generate propane.
The study...
You have got to love all those great inventions and technologies that tackle more than one pressing problem at the time, especially when they address pollution and energy storage. The latest technology that does exactly this comes from ORNL,...
