Airports... those large, desolating places, with lots of high-potential agricultural areas around the landing runways. Why wouldn't they be used for something? If we are to trust a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, these sites could...
Who needs Superman when we have our own, daily heroes? It's true, they don't have as much power, but the efforts they undertake every day makes them worth mentioning... Or writing about, as it's the case: meet Jadav Payeng –...
All of the recent news in the auto industry lead me thinking that the Asian side of the world is eventually going to dominate the electric vehicle sector. SAAB, once known for its solid and safe cars, is now...
A123, the famous U.S.-based electric car battery maker has big problems. Yesterday, their shares closed at 82 cents, after news spread out on March 26 revealed they had issues with some of the batteries that had delivered and that...
A solar cell thinner than spider silk has been unveiled today by a team of Austrian and Japanese researchers. The ultra-thin solar cell has a thickness of 1.9 micrometers and can be bent around a single human hair.
The solar...
Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley have improved the way that genetically-modified E.coli bacteria can produce biofuels from ethanol and fatty acids.
They have developed a genetic sensor that allows the bacteria to regulate their gene expression as a...
Now here's something that some may consider has nothing to do with the green purpose of our website, but I think it actually has a lot. It's Toshiba's new scanner that recognizes objects (fruits and vegetables, in this example)...
A new CO2-adsorbing material based on cerium oxide has been created by Hitachi. It has been designed to capture the CO2 produced by coal-fired plants and the company says it's 13 times more efficient than old zeolitic solid adsorbents.
Because...
Do you remember SIM-LEI? You probably don't, as its name doesn't say much (like Nissan Leaf does, for instance), but that's the first car SIM-Drive Corp, a Japanese company built last year. Now they're announcing the brand-new SIM-WIL, a...
For China, solar and thermal power are a apparently a killer combination. Together, they form what is called Concentrated Solar Power and that has been topping the priority list of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) for the...
