China's fast economic growth has been backed up by fast and dirty coal power plants to meet new energy requirements of the rapidly expanding industrial and commercial sectors. The resulting air pollution has clouded the skies over many Chinese...
The typical natural gas engine is essentially a modified gasoline engine with slightly different ignition mapping to account for natural gas' lower energy content.
Natural gas engine conversions are fairly commonplace in places where natural gas is abundant , but...
Coal plants, both here in the US and abroad, are the dirtiest when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions but, for some reason, don't get the attention they rightly deserve in climate change discussion.
In the United States, there are...
The number of solar panel installations across the U.S. has risen by 15% in the second quarter of 2013 thanks to the escalating success of utility-scale businesses. The total figure of 832 megawatts of solar panels installed between April...
The Energy Excelerator, a funding agency for renewable energy start-ups based out of Hawaii, has just been given $30 million by the US Navy to continue its work on alternative fuel initiatives.
The Energy Excelerator also receives funding from the...
Business owners with a green streak, those located at Hacienda in Pleasanton, California, specifically, will be happy to note that City CarShare has added thirty Toyota iQ EV to the DASH car-sharing fleet.
The Scion iQ EV, which is pretty...
Chevy Volt's sister vehicle in Europe, the Opel Ampera, has not been increasing in sales. In a bid to increase sales in Germany, General Motors has cut prices by €8,000 .
Here in the US, electric vehicle sales, on average,...
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As petroleum reserves extracted by typical methods begin to run dry, many opportunistic petroleum companies have turned to hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas located in more difficult locations.
Natural gas hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has become more common in...
Biofuel production from food crops has been a subject of heated discussions over the past week at the European Parliament. The previously agreed target of 10% of biofuel to be used in transportation by 2020 is now likely to drop...
According to researchers at the University of Western Australia (UWA), in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and Food WA (DAFWA), Western Australia’s surface soils are storing as much carbon as they are able.
In fact, in agricultural regions in...
