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Many European nations have expressed the desire to curb airline emissions, but are coming under pressure due to the desire for foreign air carriers to have a carbon trading scheme. Delegates to the U.N.’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) are...
Elon Musk, the head of SpaceX and Tesla and co-founder of PayPal, is working with fundraisers to generate enough money to create the Hyperloop that he designed with members from Tesla and SpaceX. Musk’s hyperloop, which he envisions revolutionizing travel,...
Recent improvement in solar panel technology and solar cell efficiency have made solar power one of the most promising renewable energy sources of the future. Prices are continuously dropping, technological advances are continuously emerging, and science is continuously discovering new...
Partnerships between environmental NGOs and corporate giants have become increasingly popular over the past few years, but analysts argue that instead of promoting environmentally friendly living, such relationships only boost production and consumption, while weaken the power and influence...
This weekend, the world's most-efficient electric vehicles will compete in a 3,000km race across the Australian Outback in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. It might be easy to say that you can run practically any electric vehicle 3,000km from north...
If California is the electric vehicle center of the United States, then Palo Alto, at the heart of Silicon Valley, is the electric vehicle center of California, which explains some new building code regulations recently passed by the City...
Currently, the Nissan GT-R is a 3.8ℓ V6-powered gas-guzzling supercar, rated at 545hp and fun-level 10.1, but it won't be that way for long, with emissions regulations becoming ever stricter. Instead of dialing the Nissan GT-R fun-level back to 8.2,...
The US Air Force is currently rethinking its fuel consumption. The Air Force has monitoring stations in remote parts of Alaska where they are monitoring wind turbines. For these monitoring stations they perform air fuel drops during September and...
This week, a Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) was released by the European Union’s High Level Steering Group of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Raw Materials that details the way Europe can ensure a sustainable supply of raw materials...
A thunderstorm. Lightning. Your phone is running out of battery. The warnings say you should not plug any electronic devices to prevent power cuts. What do you do? Are you pursuing to find a way of charging your phone...