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The two main components of a hybrid or electric vehicle, the rechargeable battery and the electric motor, are also the most expensive. Part of the reason for the expense is, in order to make the motor as small and...
Chemical reactions with different types of crushed rocks might help steel, coal and cement plants as well as gas and oil facilities to produce carbon dioxide- free emissions. This breakthrough process is being developed by a research group in...
Professor Jacob Karni, long considered Israel’s solar energy authority, has created his own company, NewCO2Fuels, to build a solar reactor. His goal: use energy collected from the sun in order to decrease coal-burning industry pollution. Karni believes that Australian brown...
Thorium, once believed to be a nuclear wonder fuel, might not actually be as miraculous as first thought. In fact, nuclear energy specialists wrote in the journal Nature that the promotion of thorium as a superior fuel for future...
California’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released its Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Proposed California Desert Conservation Plan Amendment. The documents were the result of a comprehensive study to evaluate opening an area of the California desert...
On Wednesday the World Bank released a report warning that the Middle East and North Africa will be the regions most affected by climate change. Rainfall will be a lot less, while temperatures and sea level will rise to...
While most might consider electric vehicles an example of extreme green action, there could also be a strategic benefit to having a fleet of electric vehicles on military base. Military systems, to allow for operation in varying circumstances, including...
Inventor and entrepreneur Elon Musk is nothing if not charismatic, which is a necessary thing when trying to manufacture and market the first electric vehicle that looks like someone drivable. Far from being a bug-like single-seat battery-miser, the Tesla...
Advertising catches your attention, and hopefully holds on long enough to make a point. A humorous advertisement, by the Clean Energy Partnership , takes a little look at what it's like trying to find your favorite book as quietly...
One of the goals of some synfuel programs is, not only to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions, but to reduce our dependency on foreign petroleum imports. This is also the main reason that vehicles are becoming more fuel efficient than ever,...