Hanwha SolarOne, a Korea-based company, and Crystal Solar, a Santa Clara, California startup are collaborating to produce world's cheapest silicon solar cells by using a new technology developed by the latter.
Silicon wafers are the most expensive part of a...
The mass-marketed Tesla car you've been waiting for may be out in the wild starting 2015. Elon Musk said to Wired that he has plans to make an SUV in the class of BMW's X3 and will price it...
A new petition on the White House website is requesting for the U.S. government to also give tax incentives to electric vehicle conversions, not only to new electric cars or plug-in hybrids.
“While the Federal government should continue providing Qualified...
Proponents of thorium as a nuclear fuel speak of its safety and cost savings over uranium, but a new government report from the UK finds these statements overly exaggerated. Supposedly, thorium waste is impossible to use as a bomb...
Up until now, the only way to calculate the carbon footprint of a line of products was to have an expert examine them one by one. This has proven to be time-consuming and very expensive.
A collaborative effort between PepsiCo...
Already a world leader in Uninterruptible Power Supplies for industrial and lab applications, Toshiba is combining technologies from different divisions to release a new whole-home backup power supply.
Essentially a rechargeable battery with special controls and sine-wave generators, the eneGoon...
We may be familiar with the saying, “at a glacier's pace,” but when it comes to climate change, new research is showing a surprising response. "One of the questions scientists have been asking is how long it takes for...
Weaver Wind Energy, a company from Ithaca, NY is developing a new system for wind turbines that knows which way the wind blows and what actions it should take in order to shut them down in case of imminent...
Graphene has been receiving a lot of worldwide attention, especially as a replacement for the rare and expensive silicon used in electronic devices today.
Work has also been done to use the material for flexible devices, such as touch screens...
The German government, in its plan to put away nuclear power forever, is looking to the seas and skies to meet their energy needs, specifically, wind power.
Offshore installations are much more expensive, but Tobias Klaas, scientist at the Fraunhofer...
