The idea is a couple of hundred years old, but liquified air technology was just too inefficient to store energy.
Of course, just like batteries of the 1880's couldn't hold a candle to today's batteries, the technology needed to liquify...
Electric bikes are a great way to get around, especially on city streets. They take up almost no room and you can park them practically anywhere.
In New York City, you can also get fined up to $1,000 for riding...
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst have recently engineered Geobacter metallireducens, a bacterium that can feed with hydrogen and carbon dioxide to produce electricity.
"This represents the first result of current production solely on hydrogen," says Amit Kumar, who worked...
A recent study conducted by the US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) shows that young people these days don't enjoy driving as much as their parents did. The "driving boom," as they call it, affected Baby Boomers (now 50...
Climate change is drastically affecting the ingredients in our daily meals, including the maple syrup on our pancakes, wine in our glass, chocolate in our desserts, and the salmon on our dinner plates.
The moister and warmer air in many...
West Coast supermarket chain Ralph’s uses leftover fruit and expired meat and milk from its stores to keep generate electricity. The closed-loop system, to which it is referred, was developed by the Boston start-up Feed Resource Recovery and offsets more...
Instead of smoking it, we could one day use tobacco to power cars - thanks to a project at UC Berkeley, CA. A team of scientists are now using genetically modified tobacco leaves that produce oil.
The researchers have worked...
Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, is now a safer place to live thanks to solar-powered streetlights installed by the British and Norwegian government. The lights, spreading over a length of 15 kilometers, cost $400,000.
After 20 years of conflict, the people of...
A teenager designed a cheap and safe modular fission reactor at the impressive age of only nineteen. The reactor is an invention of Taylor Wilson, who worked on it for the past one year. He claims that his design has...
Scientists from the University of Queensland conducted a survey based on 30,000 scientific peer-reviewed papers published over the past 20 years, identifying that 97.1% of the studies found climate change to be caused by human activities.
The findings were published...
