Ah, Vegas: the lights! The millions of sparkly, shiny, it-looks-like-it's-day-even-at-night lights! Sin City's electrical consumption means about 1.2 million metric tons of CO2 emissions per year, which makes it the perfect place to ...READ»
BYAnya Kamenetz Relevancy Score: 100 Tue Jan 13, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Massive investments in clean energy promise to keep farmers, urban planners, and green-tech entrepreneurs in business for the next decade. This guide to sustainability focused career paths will help solar-charge your work life.READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Jan 7, 2009 at 7:26 AM
Hydrogen's promise as an incredibly useful fuel has long been known. It's light, clean, non-polluting, and not overly difficult to produce. But researchers have recently cracked a new more effective method for producing the gas that's ...READ»
Solar power in the skies seems to be a growing trend. First the Solar Impulse project announced plans to launch a solar-powered manned plane, and now Projet Sol'R has declare that its solar blimp, dubbed Nephelios, is almost ...READ»
BYAnya Kamenetz Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Jan 5, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Green energy is still a lightning-fast growth area in venture capital--VC investment in green energy technologies in 2008 exceeded $7.7 billion in more than 350 deals, more than double last year’s dollar totals, according to ...READ»
BYKermit Pattison Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Jan 2, 2009 at 4:28 PM
Forget about a new gym membership or diet. The most important New Year’s resolution for 2009 may be slimming down your energy footprint. To that end, Saul Griffith and his colleagues have created WattzOn, a personal calculator that allows users to track energy consumption down to the last apple they eat.READ»
BYAnya Kamenetz Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Jan 2, 2009 at 1:16 PM
Wind power was recently ranked in a comprehensive research study as the top energy alternative in terms of environmental impact and total power potential.
The steel industry, a bellwether of the US economy, is in a serious slump--its ...READ»
It's been a week of shakeups for the renewable energy industry. First T. Boone Pickens dropped his wind power plan, and now the Milan Trade Fair Group has announced plans to build the world's biggest rooftop photovoltaic plant, ...READ»
BYAnya Kamenetz Relevancy Score: 100 Sun Dec 28, 2008 at 1:43 PM
A couple of weeks ago the usually conservative International Energy Agency predicted that world oil production would peak by 2020. Peak oil has moved in a short time from an obsession somewhere between the Warren Commission and the ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 100 Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 7:21 AM
Hydroelectric power has always been a pretty "green" way to generate electricty, simply interrupting the natural hydrological cycle to borrow some of its potential energy to convert to electrical power. Green, that is apart from the ...READ»
Wind power in the U.S. appears to have taken a turn for the worse this week with T. Boone Pickens' announcement that he is scrapping plans to build the world's biggest wind farm in Texas. But according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the wind situation isn't too dire--yet. te9ju5mi2aREAD»
Nuclear power is one of the most controversial energy-generating methods, mainly because of safety and terrorism concerns. But that hasn't stopped the United Industrial Corporation, a Russian manufacturer, from pressing forward with ...READ»
BYGlenn Croston Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Dec 18, 2008 at 2:06 AM
The vast majority of people want to do the right thing for the environment, but sometimes consumers and businesses are held back from going green by their concerns about cost and difficulty. People commonly think solar power is a ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Jul 10, 2009 at 8:01 AM
The world's first plane powered solely by hydrogen fuel cells took off on its maiden flight Tuesday from Hamburg Airport in Germany. The Antares DLR-H2's 10-minute flight showed off the plane's 105-mph-speed capabilities and quiet ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Dec 12, 2008 at 7:28 AM
As usual this holiday season millions of kids will be opening gifts that a caring parent must crack open immediately to jam in batteries before the playing can begin. Since its invention in 1800 as the "Voltaic pile" by Alessandro ...READ»
T. Boone Pickens scrapped his massive wind power plan, but that doesn't mean hope is lost for other large-scale renewable energy projects. Enter Desertec, a solar pipeline spanning from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe. The ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Dec 11, 2008 at 7:50 AM
Sony's new demonstration Hana-Akari lighting unit contains a neat innovation: Dye-sensitized solar power generating cells that allow for different colors and patterns to be designed into the light-capturing surface.The ...READ»
BYAnya Kamenetz Relevancy Score: 100 Tue Jul 7, 2009 at 11:53 AM
T. Boone Pickens has dropped his much-ballyhooed plan, chronicled in our pages, to build the world's largest wind farm, in favor of a handful of smaller wind farms scattered around the Midwest.
He cites many of the same factors that ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Jan 9, 2009 at 8:11 AM
Fuel cells are hot news at the moment, with advances being made every day. And now a US team has built the world's smallest fully-functioning hydrogen fuel cell that measures just 3mm on a side.
While conventional battery tech is ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Feb 5, 2009 at 9:51 AM
Reading about the Zegna Freeway jacket--it's got high-visibility LEDs in the back of the collar for improving "safety in urban outdoor travel situations"--made me realize how close the future of clothing may be. Wearable electronics ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Jun 24, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Hydrogen fuel cell technology is full of promise, but it's being held back by the problem of storing the dangerous gas safely and efficiently. Some U.S. scientists have been tackling this, and their solution is as ingenious as it ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 12:51 PM
We might still be anxiously awaiting the arrival of solar-powered cell phones in the U.S., but Japan already has at least one on sale as of June 4. Sharp makes some lofty claims about the performance potential of the ...READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Jan 30, 2009 at 9:54 AM
A power generator fueled by whiskey. Strictly speaking, the upcoming power station to be built in Scotland will be powered by by-products from the whiskey distillation process, rather than the golden drinkable alcohol itself. Still, ...READ»
