Energy

Mitigation, rationing, taxes. Environmental policy claims have historically been driven by negative thinking - a demand-side mindset that seeks to limit consumption of fossil fuels through pollution…

A device the size of a home washing machine uses bacteria growing in municipal sewage to make electricity - and also clean up the sewage at the same time.  Current wastewater treatment…

There are 20,000 miles of pipeline in Nebraska criss-crossing the Ogalalla aquifier.  A company wanted to add 400 more but President Obama overruled scientists and declared the addition…

We all want fewer dictators getting rich holding the world hostage to the demands of legacy energy systems.  And it can happen, though one anti-science contingent might not like how it gets done…

Composition of radiant heat   Both conduction and convection are ways of carrying heat from one place to another which require the presence of a material substance, either solid, liquid or…

The human demand for energy began long ago when apes metamorphosed into the first of what after another million years of evolution would become homo-sapiens. Survival was tough in the beginning, but…

Introduction Solar energy, accumulated under earth in the form of fossil fuels since the inception of life, accounts for more than 97 per cent of the world consumption of energy of which the share of…

Like global warming?  You can thank nuclear power protesters.  Since the 1970s, a full-scale public relations war on nuclear power has been waged, meaning a growing population became more…

If you don't think the government should be artificially mandating winners and losers among clean energy companies with artificial subsidies, don't let that turn you off of basic research, where the…

In Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, 85 percent of people are not connected to the electricity grid so households use kerosene lamps when they can afford it and businesses use expensive and…