Mexico City is attempting to change its image from poster child for congestion and urban pollution to a city that embraces green ideas.
A population of 18 million people and 6 million cars make public transit a necessity for many...
The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy, or ARPA-E, began its three day conference in Washington, DC on Monday. Attendees included the best and brightest from across the US who proposed lots of innovative ideas. To date, the agency...
A stretchable lithium-ion battery, flexible enough to power innovative stretchable electronics, has been developed by two scientists at Northwestern University.
Stretchable electronic devices are revolutionary because they do not need a cord and electrical outlet and can be used anywhere....
Typically, weather patterns are never constant, and balancing the thermal extremes at the poles and equator results in these patterns. Ocean currents and wind patterns are driven by these temperature differences, and for the most part, our populated areas...
In my mind, one thing that sets apart Toyota Motor Manufacturing Company from other automakers is their attention to detail and the general reliability of their products. As a Toyota Expert, Lexus Senior, and ASE Master certified technician for...
Since pine sap is made of compounds similar to those in petroleum, they can be chemically modified using polymerization so that plastics which have biodegradable characteristics can be produced.
With the harmful effects of pollution becoming more and more evident,...
In order to prove it, one Australian pilot, Jeremy Rowsell, is going to fly his Cessna from Sydney, Australia to London, England using only fuel derived from recycled plastic.
Currently, the most abundant fuels on the planet are hydrocarbons, specifically petroleum which is...
We've been watching this little storm brewing over Tesla Motors and The New York Times, and it doesn't seem like it's dying off too quickly, it isn't growing either.
The publicity, some may argue, has brought Tesla Motors some screen...
Australia's largest supercomputer may get a renewable system for cooling in the near future thanks to a geothermal energy project in Perth.
The Pawsey Centre supercomputer, an $80 million facility, needs an advanced solution for cooling. CSIRO Geothermal Project has...
A series of lasers built to study nuclear fusion reactions at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory aims to replace uranium-based nuclear fission with cleaner, safer fusion reactions to provide energy to power plants.
Despite...
