Energy

Despite the high capital costs, nuclear ticks boxes. Kaissa By Malcolm Grimston, Imperial College London An experiment in liberalizing power markets has been underway in the UK since the 1980s and…

Wind farms like this one probably wouldn't exist if the government didn't provide a hefty subsidy. Shutterstock By Randy Simmons, Utah State University Congress passed the wind production tax credit…

All aboard. Ben Birchall/PA By Sarah Jewitt, University of Nottingham A British “poo bus” went into service last week, powered by biomethane energy derived from human waste at a sewage plant. For…

Roof-top solar panels are just one part of the micropower revolution. Presidency Maldives, CC BY-NC By Morgan Saletta, University of Melbourne There is no shortage of shouting and dire warnings about…

Well, maybe it's not quite this electrifying, but the  electrochemical cell prototype is pretty cool. Florian F.  (Flowtography)/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND By Tessa Evans, The Conversation Picture…

Bacteria are everywhere and so efforts to make cleaner energy using them are ongoing. A report today shows how electrons hop across otherwise electrically insulated areas of bacterial proteins, and…

Remember the big, somewhat bulky Mercedes Benz cars of the early 1990s?  State-of-the-art at that time, they left their competitors behind on Germany’s Autobahn. Mercedes is still here today,…

Without question American CO2 emissions have plummeted, even after being driven into more coal usage due to political concerns about nuclear energy. Cleaner natural gas made the difference but…

Natural gas finally fulfilled its environmental promise this century. Long touted by environmentalists for being much cleaner than coal, hydraulic fracturing - fracking - made it economically viable…

A new device invented at The Ohio State University is the world's first hybrid solar generator and battery - it solves the problem of finicky solar power generation by having the storage built in.…