A Stanford team of researchers have succeeded making a battery electrode that would be a perfect fit for storing large amounts of electricity in large amounts of space using tiny amounts of money. Although they only have a few...
Eighty miles per charge for an electric vehicle may seem disappointing, but at $7,000 you'll find the new StreetScooter a breeze to use for in-town needs. After all, even the GM Volt doesn't do much more on electric-only mode,...
One of the main costs when harvesting geothermal energy is the digging itself. Just like oil wells, geothermal wells have to be several kilometers deep, because temperature rises along by 50 degrees Celsius with every kilometer. This is where...
As China expects a period of peak energy demand from 2020 to 2025, its largest coal producer, China Shenhua Group, now announced that it wants to start commercializing combustible ice, a gas hydrate (methane+water) found in the Qinghai province.
The...
Anyone knows that by trying to catch two (or more) rabbits at once you probably won't catch any. So does Google, it seems. Larry Page, their CEO, has now decided to pull the plug on a renewable energy project...
Scotland will soon become the first country in the world that will have a two-blade wind turbine that features a helicopter landing pad.
According to Scottish energy minister Fergus Ewing, the government has approved the construction of the innovative 6...
Hybrid cars may have lots of advantages related to fuel economy, but a recent study performed by the Highway Loss Data Institute found out they're even safer in a case of crash than their non-hybrid counterparts, MSNBC reports.
The analysis...
Germany has set itself on a one-way road towards adopting clean, renewable energy, even if that means giving up what is today its most prolific resource: nuclear power. However, Germany has lots of other options, so many that they'll...
Jay Leno is well-known for having a crush on cars - nice, expensive ones. But he apparently doesn't have a crush on gas per se. The proving fact is that he did about 11,000 miles in his Chevy Volt...
Last week, Zero Motorcycles presented the first mass-produced electric motorcycle that is able to travel more than 100 miles on a single charge. So far, no one has achieved such a performance with an electric motorcycle.
Zero Motorcycles officials called...
