Electric cars produced nowadays use lithium ion batteries. As this market will rise over the next few years, so will the lithium demand, ultimately driving new extraction technologies for the industry to keep pace with the demand and to...
I-GO Car Sharing, a non-profit initiative in Chicago, recently announced the new locations where the solar-powered electric vehicle charging stations will be installed.
The electric vehicle project is worth around $2.5 million and the company wants to add another 18...
The issue with the various alternative energy sources is that they are intermittent. You can't trust the sun or the wind to provide a constant power output, and people can do at best is to predict. Ocean currents, on...
Every electric or hybrid vehicle owner knows that, when he pushes his car's brake, a function called "regenerative braking" kicks in and transforms mechanical energy into electricity, and this in turn slows down the vehicle. This is old news....
The latest report from Pike Research shows that LED lighting will capture 52% of the Commercial Building Market by 2021. The price for these light-emitting diodes has already begun to decline.
The researchers believe that the lighting industry will change...
London has been famed for its dirty air even since the early days of industrial revolution. Things aren't like that anymore, however the city hall has decided it's high time to meet the European legislation in the matter -...
Vitamin B12 has recently been determined as one of the many solutions for cheaper hydrogen fuel cells, that convert hydrogen into electricity and have water as their only output. Because they currently use platinum, hydrogen fuel cells are being...
While Germany and Switzerland want to ouster nuclear power, Poland will have its first one built near the Baltic Sea, by the end of 2020, according to Polish energy group PGE.
The tender process for Poland's atomic power program will...
One of Europe's most ambitious goals is to capture wind and solar energy across the Arab deserts to power homes in Africa, Middle East and Europe.
Two international consortiums led by French and German industrial giants started working to deploy...
The town of Karabash, from the Russian province of Chelyabinsk, 870 miles from Moscow, is one of the most polluted places on Earth. The copper factories built more than 100 years ago keep transforming the area into a living...
