New theoretical framework will keep our fusion reactors from going ‘boom’
Real reactors lack boom.
Tag: energy
Rumors of Opportunity’s death “very premature”, despite three-weeks silence
Hang in there, buddy!
London’s Square Mile to use 100% renewable energy by October
A step in the right direction.
What is the Greenhouse effect, and why it’s (currently) bad for us
A look at the process which makes life on Earth possible -- but may topple our society if taken too ...
Massachusetts and Rhode Island to build new offshore wind farms totaling 1.2GW
As developments in Europe drive down installation costs, the US is eager to get clean energy.
Bitcoin to consume 0.5% of the world’s electricity — as much as Ireland
Bitcoin may have made some people rich, but it also consumed a lot of energy and produced a lot of ...
Cutting calories delays ageing, new study shows
Eat less, live longer.
Researchers close in on the reactions which fed the first life on Earth
Everyone's gotta eat!
Functional hydrogen-boron fusion could be here “within the next decade”, powered by huge lasers
Stable fusion is the holy grail of energy production.
BMW pledges to 100% renewable power by 2020, at COP23
BMW is going green-er!
Dusty solar panels slash power output by over 35%, study reveales
It's called "clean" energy for a reason.
UK’s massive wind turbines are setting the course for a cheap-energy future
They're more like bigbines.
Researchers design carbon yarn that generates energy from motion or waste heat
I guess we can all be current benders now!
Scientists use energy-recycling to make it easier than ever to climb stairs
It's meant for people who find it difficult to climb stairs.
Solar paint makes hydrogen fuel from solar energy and water vapor
Power from thin-ish air!
Green living at home: a list of techs to hack your house into clean energy
If you're looking to power your home cleanly, here's a good place to start.
Germany produced 85% of its electricity demand from renewable energy
Germany took the lead in renewable energy for one day.
New, cheap artificial photosynthesis scrubs the air and produces fuel
Currently only works with blue light, but they're working on fixing that.
Clean energy creates more than twice as many jobs than fossil in the US, report finds
Breadwinners > Election winners. Just sayin'.
Beijing shuts down its last coal power plant, replaces with natural gas
A step in the right direction.
Most ants don’t do much, and that makes the colony more efficient
Maybe it's time for a vacation.
Switzerland votes against strict phase-out of nuclear energy
Switzerland is, as you'd expect, one of the countries with the cleanest energy.
The combined capacity of the renewable energy sector overtakes that of coal
No more black lung.
Startup plans to fuel our cities by turning windows into power plants
Where there's light, SolarWindow can create power.
Iceland drilling project close to plugging into the Mid-Atlantic ridge
In a few months, Iceland will be drawing power directly from molten rock.
New record gets us closer to fusion energy
We're one step closer to clean, virtually limitless energy.
China covered all its new energy demand with renewables in 2015 — and there was still plenty left to spare
Power from thin air. Lots and lots of power.
The U.S. plans to build the most advanced fusion reactor ever
Endless clean energy is just too good to pass up.
Letter signed by 154 Australian experts calls for the Land Down Under to step up its game
Policy and scientific fact don't match, and the researchers urge for change.
New measuring method shows that lightning can be as powerful as 20 cars hitting the earth at 60mph
Powerful enough to melt the ground where it lands.
By 2040 our computers will use more power than we can produce
I didn't know they could do that.
Google used DeepMind to cut their electricity bill by a whopping 15%
That adds up to a lot of money.
Genetically modified bacteria converts CO2 into liquid fuels
Daniel G. Nocera, the Harvard professor who made headlines five years ago when he unveiled an artificial leaf, recently unveiled ...
The price of solar keeps falling, Dubai received the lowest ever asking bid for energy
A few days ago, India's Energy Minister Piyush Goyal announced that solar energy became cheaper to produce than coal-powered, costing ...
Venezuela orders 2-day work week in desperate attempt to stave off power crisis
Venezuela's public workers will only work on Mondays and Tuesdays as the country falls deeper into crisis.
The Universe expands much faster than we thought, and current models can’t explain why
Scientists have completed the most precise measurement of the Universe's rate of expansion to date; but the result just isn't ...
UK set to unveil the world’s largest floating solar array
The largest floating solar array in the world is to be unveiled later this month, on the Queen Elizabeth II ...
MIT develops new solar cells, 400 times more efficient and light enough to drape a soap bubble
An MIT research team has developed a new technology that will allow for the creation of lighter and thinner solar cells ...
Researchers map out energy consumption for every building in Boston
MIT researchers have created a powerful new tool for energy monitoring: a citywide urban building energy model of unprecedented scale ...
World’s primary energy source will be renewable energy by 2030
Right now coal accounts for 39% of all the world's generated electricity, with gas coming in second but still trailing ...
China will allocate $4.6 bln to shut 4,300 coal mines
The Chinese government seems determined to phase out coal from their economy.
Self assembling nano material brings us tangibly close to water-powered cars
Indiana University scientists have built a highly efficient bio-material that can serve as a catalyst for hydrogen production. This material ...
King coal is dying: demand peaked in 2014 and dropping fast worldwide
A report released by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) found we are beyond the peak of ...
Bill Gates to launch multi-billion climate fund – the biggest ever
The wealthiest man in the world, Bill Gates, will announce on Monday a massive private-government partnership for a new clean ...
Wind and solar prices fall again, while fossil fuel energy grows more expensive
If you still think wind and solar energy can't possibly work because they're too expensive, you're trapped in time. As ...
