Remember when you used to say clean vehicles couldn’t take you very far? John and Helen Taylor prove you wrong: after 90 fuel economy and vehicle-related records around the world, they have decided to go for one more. What...
Today's society is heading towards being a more mobile, technology-driven one. The market has been demanding smaller and thinner portable electronics, and manufacturers were able to produce thinner gadgets for its consumers. Now, with Infinite Power Solutions’ (IPS) breakthrough, manufacturers may be...
The USGS (United States Geological Survey) has published a post on their water-related website that shows an amazing 3D rendering of actually how much water exists on Earth and how much of that water is potable.
You can see the...
Tar sands - Canada's dream of a richer life, are about to disrupt changes so dramatic in the global climate that 20 to 50 percent of the planet's species could go extinct and civilization as we know it could...
The Scales Wind Farm Technology Facility (SWIFT), a state-of-the-art wind turbine research facility in the Texas Panhandle, is expected to become fully operational starting October.
Stephanie Holinka, a Sandia National Laboratories’ spokesperson, said that the first phase of this project...
A 10-year-old MIT spinoff, Lilliputian Systems is now ready to commercialize a portable charger that, if priced correctly, will revolutionize batteries and backup charging for mobile devices. It runs on butane and contains a revolutionary fuel cell that transforms the...
A new research on the actions to be done about nuclear waste has been recently published in the science journal Nature. Their conclusions have been that the wastes should be disposed of safely and securely, so that they are...
Buying photovoltaic panels from the store and installing them can prove a costly process, so why not try making a pair of your own at home? Warning: they may not generate much electricity, while losing some of it, but...
A three-year study performed in Iceland revealed that toxic gases associated with geothermal drilling can be dangerous to human health. The study found a link between underground-originating hydrogen sulfide (the rotten eggs-smelling substance) and asthma and various respiratory diseases.
The...
The CUNY Energy Institute has built its "fame" on the production of batteries that are safe, non-toxic, and reliable but still have a reasonable price. Now the company has poured all that know-how into a prototype zinc anode battery...
