After Russia, Norway is the second-largest gas supplier to Europe. Norway is also highly dependent on hydro-power, which is green in its own right. Unfortunately it leaves Norway susceptible to changing weather patterns, specifically rainfall, which push them back...
Following allegations that Chinese solar panel manufacturers have been unloading their product overseas for lower prices than at home, or even under cost. This is fairly typical for the rising economic power of the world, but it has begun...
Arabica Coffee is the second-most-traded commodity after petroleum, and thus is an important crop in many parts of the world, but it only grows in very specific conditions. Growers and connoisseurs already know that variations in sun, rain, and...
Entanglement, or the quantum link that happens when separate particles share a wave function, may make quantum batteries almost perfect.
Engines and refrigerators have often been the subjects physicists have amused themselves with in the quest to calculate the properties...
China is leading the global race in renewable energy technologies. It’s estimated that by 2020, 8% of all Chinese electricity generation capacity will derive from wind, solar, and biomass energy. China’s top leaders are focused intensely on innovating China’s...
Wind energy has the potential to power the world, and innovators are trying to find new technologies that harness the energy in the most efficient, cost effective way. Conventional bladed wind turbines are fantastic in theory, but in reality...
Since 2007, the beginning of the recession in the US, automobile manufacturers have been facing ever decreasing sales numbers, consistently posting in the red from month to month, year to year. Electrified vehicle sales have been hurting as well,...
During the 2012 presidential debates, one issue, the elephant-in-the-room, Climate Change, sat ignored in the corner, even though it weighs heavy on the mind of many of the voting populace.
Obama's recent presidential win gives him a second term in...
Abengoa Solar, a world renowned designer of solar power systems, has just announced two Concentrating Solar Power plants to be built in Africa. These will be the first full-scale solar projects on the African continent, as well as...
Historically, the quest to find alien life by organizations such as Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has involved painstakingly combing through radio signals. But a group of Penn State astronomers have another method. These astronomers have begun an extensive...
