Chinese automaker BYD doesn’t sell electric vehicles in the United States, but the electric bus is a go, starting with a new plant in California.
The automarket in the United States is a tough one, and the electric vehicle market...
It seems like the stuff of a science fiction book, but space-based solar power, at least theoretically, could eliminate the need for fossil-fuel energy production altogether.
Earth-based solar power is as far as we’ve gotten, and some studies suggest that...
Food security is one of the most pressing issues that governments around the world will have to tackle, as outlined in the latest IPCC report. Depleting resources due to climate change, coupled with the rapid growth in population size,...
In an attempt to develop high efficiency solar cells that can surpass polluting energy generating facilities in terms of amounts of electricity output, a team of engineers from Semprius Inc. and Solar Junction, together with scientists from University of Illinois, came...
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to own and drive an electric vehicle, and you happen to live on the West Coast, then the May 2014 Electric Car Guest Drive (ECGD) ought to be your next...
According to research don’t by a think tank in Europe, renewable energy technologies have always found a soft spot in our hearts, but the reasons keep evolving.
Depending on who you ask, and when you ask, you might get very...
In case you’re wondering, the tin hatters are the ones that constantly go on about the Moon Landing and 9/11 being fake. Next on the list of conspiracy theorist targets, apparently, is Tesla Motors.
Of course, there have to be...
For a long time, store cashiers would ask, “Paper or plastic?” but after a while, since plastic bags were so cheap, there was very little reason to even keep the paper bags on the racks.
Indeed, asking for paper bags...
We’ve heard the waste reduction mantra, “Reduce, Recycle, Reuse,” which has helped reduce the amount of waste heading to landfills, but what if we took it a couple of steps further?
Justin Vraney, owner of Sandwich Me In, in Chicago,...
The topic of air pollution is being widely discussed for quite some time now. To start with, controlling the concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is extremely important for climate change mitigation, there is no question...
