Hong Kong has seen its very first zero carbon building, the ZCB. Ronald Lu & Partners designed the building using passive design techniques to ensure that energy use is reduced. With a natural ability to ventilate, a close-fitting thermal...
Volkswagen launched their new diesel-electric plug-in hybrid SUV, the CrossBlue, recently at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show. The SUV would certainly appeal to consumers needing a larger vehicle but still want to reduce their carbon footprint.
Though the vehicle is...
Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) is an offshore wind transmission project, or “backbone”, being created by Trans-Elect, an independent transmission company and Atlantic Grid Development with backing from Bregal Energy, Elia, Marubeni Corp. and Google. The companies supporting the project...
New School students and students of Stevens Institute of Technology have created the Empowerhouse, which is a home that generates all of its required energy. Built in the Washington D.C. area as an entry in the Solar Decathlon design...
Recycling mobile phones is a big business, not only for the financial benefits. This is because it ensures that dangerous chemicals do not reach landfill sites and that material resources are also preserved.
Without a doubt, the mobile phone industry...
Kansas State University assistant professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering Gurpreet Singh and his team of engineers have discovered more efficient and less expensive methods for creating nanomaterials that can be used for lithium-ion batteries.
Singh believes that understanding lithium...
Bob Lutz, General Motors ex-vice chairman, is now heading up efforts to produce a series of extended-range electric vehicles that are nothing like the Chevy Volt he championed whilst in the GM circle. Recently, he mentioned he...
One of the advantages hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have over electric vehicles is that they refuel in the same amount of time as a conventional gasoline-powered vehicle. However, HFCs and EVs share at least one disadvantage, limited...
Hybrid electric vehicles were once in the realm of Japanese automobile manufacturing, and the Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius were the first HEVs to grace US highways. Of course, being first also has its advantages, and “Prius”...
A human-powered vehicle, a bicycle specifically, is extremely efficient compared to gasoline-powered powered vehicles today, upwards of 500 MPG according to some calculations.
There is a problem with riding a bike to work every day, though, aside from not being...
