When you pick up your phone to send a message, check your email, call a friend, etc. etc., do you think of how much electricity is used to power mobile networks? Apparently, the amount is huge, and what is...
Recycling of used batteries is always a big challenge. Regardless of how many improvements to current energy storage devices are made, sooner or later they all end up at the same place. We hope this is a battery recycling...
The cost of solar energy has been a main focus of attention ever since panels started to appear on more and more household rooftops. This is why, Eclareon, an European-based renewable energy and energy efficiency consultancy company, took on the...
Everyone knows that the smartphone, the tablet and the personal notebook are the best travel companions, especially if ahead of us is a long and tedious journey. Needless to say, those of us, who have concluded long ago that...
Having access to the grid and constant power supply in many parts of the world is a dream, rather than lifestyle. For many communities, diesel fuel and coal are the only means of power generation, causing severe pollution and...
The only automaker to stand up to the automobile dealer associations (ADA), the Tesla Motors direct-sales strategy has been welcomed in some states, but obstructed in others.
For the most part, the most vocal participants in this struggle have been the ADAs,...
Designed from the ground up as an electric vehicle, the Defiant Xtreme EV3 Roadster will debut next month at the Knoxville, Tennessee, Earth Day Festival.
Developed by Shockwave Motors, the Defiant Xtreme EV3 Roadster is an electric vehicle designed to...
Graphite is one of the main components in lithium-ion battery technology, which is found in everything from smartphones to electric vehicles. Unfortunately, shoddy graphite mining practices are exacerbating a big pollution problem.
Think graphite, and what may come to mind...
The influence of climate change on various eco-systems is undoubtedly enormous. Scientists keep discovering new means by which hotter temperature, or more intense rainfall events, would influence our surrounding environment.
One of these problems was recently identified by a team...
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) might just have discovered the way to keep everyone, who owns a smart phone that runs out of battery super fast, super happy. Their latest development is a new type of silicon-based solar cell,...
