Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. from Japan claims to have produced car fuel from farm waste, which can compete in cost with imported ethanol.
Recently, the use of ethanol as an environmentally friendly alternative to polluting fossil fuels, has gained popularity amongst "green" drivers....
Following a long period of suspense, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors revealed yesterday his plans for expanding the Supercharging network across the U.S..
Musk said Tesla would install 25 Superchargers by the end of June in California, the Pacific...
A new zinc-air battery with a redesigned and cheap catalyst has been brewed at Stanford - it could one day rival lithium ion batteries and come much cheaper.
"With ample supply of oxygen from the atmosphere, metal-air batteries have drastically...
Electric vehicles are just like any other electrical device, that is, they consume energy when they are plugged in.
Power companies spend of lot of time and effort balancing the supply of electricity with the demand for it. A typical...
Intel's new Haswell chip family reduces power consumption by 50% but increases performance by about 200%.
Every three years or so, computing power density doubles, processor chip speed increases and power consumption decreases, increasing battery life of many personal electronic devices.
This is...
If there's any one thing that is keeping electric vehicles on the sidelines of the market, it is the lack of charging infrastructure.
Unlike the nearly 100,000 gas stations that are available in the US to refuel a conventional vehicle,...
According to a study published in the latest issue of the journal Environmental Science and Technology, the use of nuclear power has saved almost 2 million people from developing an air-pollution illness leading to death. In addition, the experts...
A paper published today by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by scientists at the University of New Mexico posits that future global warming may produce above average monsoonal moisture. The extra moisture will most...
The Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in 2011 is a strong reminder that while nuclear power can be a useful energy source, a nuclear power plant disaster can have devastating consequences. In fact, Japan is still recovering from the...
Scraping the mountaintops for coal is the worst practice the environment has ever had to face. Despite all the troubles that mining for coal does to humanity and the environment, the US relies heavily on the black matter to...
