Even if their price plummeted in the last two to three years by 30%, batteries are still the most expensive part of an electric vehicle. What's most troubling about such a battery is that if it breaks, only specialized...
Although they're easily ignored, seagrasses have been found to be one of the greatest carbon sinks on the planet. The study, published in Nature Geosciences, reveals that they can store up to 83,000 metric tons of carbon per square...
According to a new analysis from business research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, we are to witness a continuous electrification of the cars we'll drive in the near future. No pun intended, but I guess you could have...
A piece of software written specially for running on home computers in a widely-distributed worldwide network has performed about 10,000 simulations regarding the climate change and found out that chances are equal that by 2050 the average temperature will...
A chemical reaction that turns carbon dioxide into a solid and on the top of it, releases energy, has been discovered by a Michigan Technological University researcher and could revolutionize how we sequester the powerful greenhouse gas to our...
Last year we've been telling you that Rolls Royce will enrich its big and ugly Phantom cars made for the rich and tasteless with yet another big and ugly Phantom - not one powered by a V12 engine, but...
There are not a lot of car manufacturers out there that get it right every time so that you startle when hearing of a new release, but Porsche is certainly one of them. Just last week did the German...
A new efficiency record for graphene solar cells has been established by University of Florida in Gainesville researchers. The new solar cell, made of graphene impurified with an organic dopant now reaches an efficiency of 8.6 percent, versus the...
Right now, cement production accounts for 5 to 6 percent of total man-made greenhouse gases. Producing lime, its key ingredient, uses an energy-intensive process that needs temperatures as high as 1,500 degrees Celsius, and that can only be obtained...
When the independent nonprofit group Next 10 recently released the 2012 California Green Innovation Index put together by Collaborative Economics, they knew it was time to show off. And well, they did have the reasons: California leads the way...
