The global warming is here to stay - this is what the World Meteorological Organization said in this year's issue of their Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. Gases like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane are at their highest since the...
Alaska Airlines has recently launched 75 commercial passenger flights in the United States, all powered by biofuels. The company is convinced that the aviation will surely enter a new era, where all airplanes will be powered by sustainable fuels....
A newly invented material could revolutionize many industries at once. Discovered by a collaborating team from three U.S. universities, the metal is the lightest material ever discovered - so light it can actually sit on a dandelion. The new...
Canada is preparing to increase its hydro-electric resource usage to 88.5 GW. The country's hydropower industry plans to allocate up to $70 billion on hydro-electric projects in the next 15 years.
The most part of the projects are planned for...
For some time I've been wanting to write mostly about electric car startups, since I think they can sometimes offer more value than long-established carmakers. Coda Autmotive, for example, is one such example not often mentioned by the specialized...
The Dutch don't like wind turbines anymore. They built 36 offshore wind turbines back in 2006, and had great hopes for them, but now the Dutch government realized they don't have money to subsidize the 18 cents per kilowatt...
A team of Czech researchers have recently published a paper that shows how forests adapt to various lighting scenarios and how those plants living inside dense canopies in jungles succeed increasing their carbon intake even in cloudy conditions. The...
The 2011 edition of the Tokyo Motor Show that will start on November 30 will certainly have a plenty of exciting new concepts, but Toyota wants to impress once again with its latest eco-friendly concepts.
So, the Japanese car maker...
A car that will compete with the Tesla Roadster and will do the 0 to 60 in less than 3.8 seconds has been announced by Arcspeed, a car manufacturing company from Australia.
They'll use an AC electric motor from Ultramotive,...
The new University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering found a new way to power the first floor of the building by installing a 1.1 megawatt bank of high-end lithium-ion batteries.
Considering that the average AA battery generates around...
