Using solar-powered smartphones, Topher White, the founder of Rainforest Connection in San Francisco, devised a way to save the Indonesian forests.
More than a million hectares of forest a year disappear in Indonesia annually. Indonesia’s rainforest is the third largest...
Cloud computing has been advertised lately as the way to go if you want to show off with your green IT achievements. A new report from Berkeley Lab now proves this is true and you can even calculate how...
Lithium-ion batteries, for the moment, are the best solution for lightweight and reliable portable power, but various other battery formulations, such as lithium sulfur, could be a better option.
As we know, lithium-ion batteries are not without their problems....
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We've gotten away from the misnomer Global Warming lately. Climate Change is probably the best way to describe the situation globally.
The problem with the term global warming is trying to justify worst winter storm with warming. Really, the occurrence...
Jeff Evenson, Corning Senior Vice President, says he expects that at least one high-end automaker to use Gorilla Glass in the next year, realizing a few points of fuel economy increase.
Improving vehicle fuel economy isn't just a matter of reducing engine...
Times are changing and so do measurement units. Because people in the U.S. are used to thinking of gasoline consumption in miles per gallon, and electric/plug-in hybrids have to do with kilowatt-hours, the Department of Energy is now introducing...
Bollore, a French giant in developing electric batteries and 'smart' electrical systems, is planning to bring 500 electric vehicles and 1,200 charging stations to Indianapolis as part of the most highly anticipated and valued car racing events in the...
Chevy Volt may have been ahead of the game when it started, but as more plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles have hit the market, sales haven't been increasing as fast as General Motors would like.
With so many electric vehicles...
If governments wait for 2020 to renew the international agreement for carbon emissions and climate change, meeting the 2 degrees target will become impossible.
The warning was issued by energy experts from the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Monday. In...
In order to reduce emissions, all gasoline in the US is blended with 5% to 10% ethanol, but with the increasing fuel-economy of the light vehicle fleet, petroleum companies are feeling the pinch.
When consumers buy ethanol-blended gasoline, E5 or...
