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Clean energy could make the Sahara green

Both figuratively and literally.

Curbing climate change: carbon storage is good, forests are oft-times better

If it ain't broken, don't replace it with a powerplant.

New theoretical framework will keep our fusion reactors from going 'boom'

Real reactors lack boom.

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 far.

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 emissions in the process.

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!

Scott Pruitt says subsidies give renewables an unfair edge, and here's why he's a monumental hypocrite

Capital H.

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.

Nobody is going to make coal great again, says Bloomberg New Energy Finance founder

Sorry, bro.

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.

Chinese province runs on 100% renewable energy for a week, saves half a million tonnes of coal

Bye bye coal.

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.

Earlier this month, California broke yet another green record using over 67% renewable power

Woob woob!

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.

Your brain tricks you into seeing difficult goals as less appealing

Thanks brain...

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 his latest work: an engineered bacteria that converts hydrogen and carbon dioxide into alcohols and biomass.

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 roughly 6 US cents/kWh. Now, it's become even cheaper: the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) received the lowest ever asking price for solar energy, at US 2.99 cents/kWh.

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 compatible with speed calculations from remanent Big Bang radiation. Should the former results be confirmed by independent techniques, we might very well have to rewrite the laws of cosmology as we know them.

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 reservoir, at Walton-on-Thames. The array is estimated to generate almost 6 million kWh in its maiden year of operations. The energy will be used to power London's water treatment plants.

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 than ever before. While the team says there is still work to be done before making them commercially available, the panels already proved their efficacy in laboratory settings. They hope that their work will power […]

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 and detail.

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 behind at 22%. King coal is dying though, as ZME Science reported earlier. In less than 15 years, the International Energy Agency estimates renewable energy will become the dominant energy source in the world. Moreover, these estimates are conservative since the report assumes many coal plants will still be online in 2030, which is unlikely.

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 takes us halfway towards the long sought-after "holy grail" of splitting water to make hydrogen and oxygen for fueling cheap and efficient cars that run on water.

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 coal consumption and demand. Effectively, the demand for coal has virtually dropped all over the world with few exceptions, most notably India. The news suggests we're well on our way to leave coal behind for good, and never turn back. Replacing coal are more efficient and energy friendly measures,including renewable energy, nuclear and gas.