Natural gas extraction techniques vary, but fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, has been linked to water pollution, methane emissions, and even increased seismic activity .
Fracking has turned out to be very controversial. Fracking is an extraction process that involved injecting...
Looking at the diminutive and somewhat underwhelming Mitsubishi i-MiEV, you might come to the conclusion that Mitsubishi isn't pushing hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles that much.
Really, the problem boils down to high demand and poor infrastructure. Mitsubishi's hybrid vehicles...
If you could quickly rattle off a few things that you wouldn't want to be erected in your back yard, you'd probably think of things like “pig farm” or “chemical plant.” “Gas well” probably makes the list, but would...
![Toyota A-BAT Concept [Hybrid Vehicle Technology in a Truck!]](https://i0.wp.com/www.greenoptimistic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/1024px-Toyota_A-Bat.jpg?resize=681%2C511&ssl=1 "Toyota and Ford Call off Hybrid Vehicle Technology Collaboration")
Sometimes, in order to develop new automobile technology faster and cheaper, such as hybrid vehicle technology, a couple of automakers may collaborate and share what they learn with each other.
Sometimes, these collaborations end with some new vehicle technology, such...
Researchers from Wetsus, the center for excellence for sustainable water technology in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, established a method to create an electrical current from carbon dioxide (CO2) using a combination of membranes and water.
The study, published in the Journal...
The Daihatsu Mira e:S was rated at 30km/ℓ on the JC08 fuel consumption test. It weighs 1,700lb and is powered by a 660cc i3 engine.
While we believe that the electric car is, most definitely, the future, we understand that...
Solar panels, when mounted on a building roof, not only generate electricity, but they also create a cooling effect, according to researchers from University of California, San Diego.
Quite a number of materials and methods have been explored to keep...
Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory produced completely "green" hydrogen fuel by utilizing light to initiate a catalytic process. The key was to use bacteriorhodopsin, a protein found in ancient desert microorganisms, and combine it...
A NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences discovered that a temperature anomaly of only 1ºC leads to an annual 3.5 Petagram anomaly in the annual CO2 growth rate, equivalent...
A new type of glass developed at Penn State promises better energy storage technologies that could power future hybrid and electric cars in the future.
Glass is a dielectric material, which means electrons don't pass easily between two of its...
