Electric car batteries are going to get cheaper, or at least that's what Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, said in a conference call aimed to show the fourth quarter 2011 financial results.
Musk went as far as saying that...
The intelligence behind Apple's Siri is going to be run by the data center powered by the largest end-user-owned solar array. The company that Steve Jobs founded more than 30 years ago is now going to catch up with...
As the world stands on grim perspectives, such as the doubling of energy consumption within the next 40 years and the imminent shortage of oil and gas, the attention shifts towards nature’s resorts. And photosynthesis, far-fetched as it may...
You know what they say: hard work is not enough – you also need vision. Well, these days it seems this is the case with the marine region of London. According to a report of the British Parliament, the...
Wait till you hear this one, because we're pretty sure it's not something you hear every day: a car relying on its own frame for power. This is something British defense firm BAE Systems is in the process of...
The thin-film technology strives for closing the gap with silicon cells in the race for the most efficient solar panels.
Researchers from the Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, together with Suntech Power Holdings announced that embedding gold and silver nanoparticles...
40 percent of the energy used by the US economy goes in buildings. $400 billion per year. These are the numbers provided by the US Department of Energy and the basis for Obama's "Better Buildings Initiative" that passed in...
We’ve gone over from baby steps – supplementing the electrical grid – to powering an entire 300,000 people with renewable energy. It’s not happening yet but it’s in the works: by summer, the people of Cincinnati could be having...
Green light for the construction of nuclear reactors in Georgia. On February 9th, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a licence for Southern Company, an energy utility, for the building of two nuclear reactors at Vogtle, Georgia. In the...
If you live in the U.S. and always wanted to buy an electric vehicle, but you couldn't afford, think again. The newly released budget that President Obama approved can offer you a $10,000 discount off the price of an...
