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Over the next decade, compressed air energy storage (CAES), a way to store energy generated at one time for use at another time, is expected to grow by leaps and bounds, according to Navigant Research. Despite being commercially available for...
Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany established that the rate of ocean acidification due to increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere presents a serious thread to aquatic ecosystems. The speed of change in oceans acidity was found...
How far will Ferrari go in order to please all these wealthy and at the same time environmental oriented buyers? Many have wondered this exact thing, as the new LaFerrari hybrid has been quite successful since it hit the...
The EEX Transparency Platform recently published data, which indicates that Germany has broken the record with generating 5.1 TWh (terawatt-hours) of solar energy power in the month of July. The country has not only left behind some of the its...
Scientists believe it’s still possible to reduce CO2 emissions by a whopping 50% globally by 2050, but only if countries take drastic measures – like the ones taken by France. France is the only country in the world that has...
Taking the most popular truck in the US for the last thirty years, the Ford F-150, suggesting that people make improvements to their fuel economy, might be construed as a highly UN-American thing to do, but we're only talking...
One of the great things about modern hardware and software is its accessibility. For example, I may be writing this from an internet cafe in the Peruvian Highlands but, with an internet connection, I can access the world. If...
A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University and University of Colorado developed a method to purify contaminated water using silver nanoparticles. The technology, unlike any of the existing ones, is cheap, fast, effective, and does not require any electricity....
On August 21st, Al Jazeera America, a New York-based news channel, went live and began broadcasting in 48 million homes across the United States. The network’s very first story about climate change had a duration of 30 minutes and focused...
Last year, photovoltaic solar power in Italy accounted for some 5.6% of the total energy mix produced, and the number is only increasing. For the first seven months of 2013, Italian solar power, specifically photovoltaic panels, grabbed almost 20% more...