One of the most important components in a vehicle for controlling exhaust emission is the catalytic converter. Even though this is common knowledge, there has been little to no progress on improving the design, with the most recent change...
In everything from electric vehicles to smart grids, including your laptop, smartphone, television, and house, sensors keep track of changing conditions, but they have a couple of limitations.
For the most part, sensors require their own network and power supply,...
The agricultural industry is notoriously slow to react to changing conditions, which leads some researchers to believe that climate change will inevitably lead to higher food prices in the future.
According to research done by the Potsdam Institute for Climate...
Fuzzy math is hard at work in North Carolina State University, specifically the engineering department, which released the results of a study that basically says that electric vehicles don't reduce emissions.
It's widely accepted that electric vehicles, in themselves, generate...
Although every big corporation and patent troll would tell you otherwise, the open source model is one of the surest paths to technological innovation and progress. By offering universal access to a product's design, and then allowing improvements on said design...
Pope Francis gave us all a big clue when he chose to name himself after Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and the environment. He also hates fracking and likes public transportation. Could the new pope be...
Seasonal things come and go, so winter's ski weather gives way to summer's beach weather. We store our seasonal stuff because we know that we'll get to go skiing again next winter. Thanks to climate change, this could be...
The automobile sector in China is growing, and the nouveau riche in China are looking for premium vehicles, such as those offered by Tesla Motors, to set themselves apart from the crowd.
In spite of the need for clean transportation...
A new endeavor, the ECOPROT project has the goal of industrializing an innovative procedure for producing corrosion-protecting environmentally friendly coatings for aluminum and magnesium alloys, and the aeronautics industry hopes to take full advantage of this research.
This coating provides...
In their attempt to reduce the increasing electricity bills, German government is taking drastic and slightly controversial measures. Merkel and team plan to introduce a new charge, which will be introduced to penalize clean energy producers for consuming their...
