Despite the clean energy provided by wind turbines, they remain expensive to build and install, especially the offshore type. To help reduce this cost, the EU together with nine more companies and science groups and led by Spain’s Tecnalia,...
In the Arctic, sunlit snow is the predominant source of atmospheric bromine, the key to unique chemical reactions that purge pollutants and destroy ozone. National Science Foundation-funded researchers at Purdue University have also determined that surface snowpack above Arctic...
Two United Nations reports urge companies to produce devices that are easy to break down and recycle once their lifetime is over.
The two studies suggest that technologies such as mobile phones and electric car batteries should be made of...
In spite of fire concerns here on the ground, lithium-ion batteries could be best solution for backup power on the International Space Station.
Just like we have concerns with renewable energy being intermittent here on the ground, the International Space...
Biodiesel is becoming more popular as a fuel because it is carbon neutral and fairly easy to manufacture.
Unfortunately, because it doesn't contain the same amount of energy as petro-diesel, biodiesel is usually mixed with petro-diesel to improve vehicle performance....
The American Lung Association ranked Los Angeles as the U.S. city with the highest levels of ozone pollution, the worst smog and the heaviest traffic.
The annual report on national air quality released earlier this week placed the farming town...
Researchers from University of Wyoming discovered new deposits of lithium in the Rock Springs Uplift in southern Wyoming. The amount of the element is thought to be sufficient to meet the annual U.S. demand, exceeding twice the reserves of...
The southern China sea is set to have the biggest Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) plant installed by a collaboration of Lockheed Martin and Reignwood Group. Although OTEC technology, which generates electricity from the difference in temperature between warm...
China is the world's fastest-growing automobile market, and Toyota's new hybrid is aiming right for the hearts of younger buyers.
The new elite in China, young buyers in their late 20s to early 30s, probably won't find the decidedly placid...
The development of grid storage solutions is critical if the power grid is to switch to entirely renewable energy sources.
The problem is that renewable energy is largely weather-dependent, so we need backup power sources to take up the slack...
