In the coming two weeks, the Department of Energy is hosting the Solar Decathlon competition in Orange County Great Park, California. Teams from all over the world, gather to show their creative solar-powered housing designs, which should be affordable,...
A few months ago, we talked about a Tesla Motors buyback guarantee, which sounds really great for any customers who decide after three years they want no more of it, but could be good news for both Tesla Motors...
Now that we've had a chance to consider IPCC AR5, that is, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report, there's one clear conclusion, we must stop use of fossil fuels. Of course, the question arises,...
China is the world's fastest growing economy, which means that it has also become the world's largest consumer of new automobiles. General Motors has its foot in the door already, with three flavors of electric vehicles.
“General Motors is...
A new study by Carnegie’s Ken Caldeira and Nathan Myhrvold of Intellectual ventures shows the pattern of climate change to be a rapid increase within the first decade followed by a very slow increase. Their work, published in Environmental...
On September 29, a Korean research team led by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) published a paper entitled Microbial Production of...
In the automobile market, there are few paths to success. General Motors has been rising in the ranks in the last few years, and there are even rumors that they'll produce another electric vehicle.
We've heard a lot about graphene, a single-layer hexagonal arrangement of carbon atoms, about which it has been said might revolutionize lithium-ion battery, water filtration, and even reduce emissions.
Scientists are still discovering all the wonderful things that graphene might...
Small nuclear reactors, these of less than 300 megawatts, which can be easily constructed and transported to any site of a pressing need of energy, might not come as cheap as vendors claim.
A new report by the Union of...
By 2020, Nissan expects to have fully-autonomous vehicles on the road but, in order to do that, Nissan will have to prove that they will be just as safe, or safer, than vehicles with human drivers.
In the state of...
