Nuclear energy is the most viable option for the looming energy crisis. It is carbon-free energy since it does not produce carbon dioxide that can cause global warming. However, limitations in the current technology only allow us to use...
About 97 percent of the earth’s water is found in seas and oceans, yet only a fraction of the world’s potable water comes from desalination of seawater. The looming water crisis drives the search for efficient, cheap and sustainable...
If you thought beer is only good for drinking - think again. Cornell researchers have discovered how to process beer broth into caproic acid, a carboxylic acid that could be used as biofuel.
Ethanol is already being produced from broth,...
Using human waste for electricity and fertilizers... Ok, I get the fertilizer part - after all, our ancestors did use animal waste to make their cultivated soils more productive - but electricity? Yes, scientists have been working at it...
Can you imagine a company the size and importance of ebay having one if its data centers rely on hydrogen? Well, you better believe it, because it's real: a Utah center will do just that as soon as...
Instead of slow and steady, it's rather a question of quick and steady with Uruguay: last fall they announced an 800 MW wind power plan by 2015 and now they came back with a revised prospect of 1000 MW.
And...
Toyota and BMW are willing to expand their operations together, through to a renewed agreement aimed at bringing affordable and quality electric and hybrid cars on the market. Watch the article published on Cars and Trees, this blog's brother...
One start-up company striving to make it big in California is Tesla from Palo Alto, but expensive operating costs and last year's Roadster sell losses of nearly $1 billion kind of spooked it. This year, however, the company is...
Hailed or blasphemed, the biodiesel is the cheapest and greenest alternative to the driver who doesn't have anything but a diesel-drinking car, vegetable oil, some will and green heart. Here's a recipe for making the fuel with elements you...
Solar tracking devices are usually part of the staff going unobserved in that long list at the end of a movie, but they still contribut to the main stars' success. A Taiwanese company by the name of CN-J Technology...
