Airships Are No Longer a Relic of the Past; You Could Ride In One By 2023
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: As concern over climate change and rising temperatures grows, the airline industry is taking heat (pun intended)… […]
After A Splendid Flight Test, NASA Now Has A New Ride To Space
by Eric Berger: They made it… […]
This Startup Is 3D Printing Custom Prosthetics For A Fraction Of The Standard Cost
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: Around 1.9 million people in the US are currently living with limb loss… […]
What Is The Pandemic’s Impact On The Auto Industry?
by Nina Rodríguez-Quirós: Is now the right time to buy an electric vehicle? […]
A Newly-Discovered Tiny CRISPR Protein Packs A Giant Punch For Human Gene Editing
by Shelly Fan: The CRISPR family just grew bigger. The newcomer? A tiny DNA-chomping Cas protein, tucked away inside giant viruses… […]
15 States And Washington, DC Pledge To Accelerate Bus And Truck Electrification
by Renewable Energy World: This week, 15 states and the District of Columbia announced a joint memorandum of understanding (MOU)… […]
A World-First In Light Conversion: Oxygen Breathes New Life Into Solar Cell Research
by (Sci Tech Daily): A world-first in light conversion has potential future implications for solar photovoltaics, biomedical imaging, drug delivery and photocatalysis… […]
Will The Hydrogen Revolution Start In A Garbage Dump?
American companies are racing to commercialize technologies that can turn almost any kind of waste into clean hydrogen fuel… […]
It’s a 2-Acre Farm, Packed Into A Shipping Container That Doubles As A Farm Building
by Derek Markham: The Farm From A Box system is designed to feed 150 people per year, and includes drip irrigation, all of the tools, and its own renewable energy setup… […]
The Robot Revolution Was Televised: Our All-Time Favorite Boston Dynamics Robot Videos
by Jason Dorrier: When robots take over the world, Boston Dynamics may get a special shout-out in the acceptance speech… […]
Clever Materials Make It Easier To Pull Clean Water From The Air
by arXiv: A new analysis suggests that dew harvesting, an affordable passive technology, could be practical in places where it has never been possible before… […]
$100 billion “Universal Fiber” Plan Proposed By Democrats In Congress
by Jon Brodkin: Ambitious legislation would deploy 100Mbps symmetrical broadband throughout US… […]
These Plant-Based Steaks Come Out Of A 3D Printer
by Adele Peters: Plant-based burgers are one thing, but a fake steak that can convince meat eaters is a much harder accomplishment. Redefine Meat thinks it’s figured it out… […]
How China’s Giant Solar Farms Are Transforming World Energy
by Chris Baraniuk: China is not only home to some of the biggest solar farms; its technology looks set to influence energy policy across the globe. But how feasible are these grand plans? […]
Electrification Of Transportation Sector Nears Tipping Point
by Megan Colonel: Transportation accounts for nearly 70 percent of U.S. oil consumption and 28 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions… […]
The Largest Electric Plane Ever To Fly
by Chris Baraniuk: As electric planes pass another milestone, Future Planet asks how long will it be before they are ready for everyday aviation? And just how far can they go? […]
New Campaign Calls For All New Homes In 10 States To Be Built With Solar Panels
by (Renewable Energy World): In January 2020, California became the first state to require all new houses to be built with solar panels… […]
Spinning Reserve Displacement
by Sriram Emani: Using batteries for a more efficient and cleaner way to back up power… […]
GE Will 3D Print The Bases Of Wind Turbines Taller Than Seattle’s Space Needle
by Jason Dorrier: If you’ve seen a wind farm in action, you know modern wind turbines are pretty awe-inspiring… […]
Xcel Proposes Almost $3B Energy Investment Plan To Fight COVID Job Losses And Reach Clean Energy Goals
by (Clarion Energy Content Directors): In response to the COVID-19 devastating impact on jobs… […]
US Interior Department Approves Plan for the Largest Solar Project in U.S. History
This would be the 8th largest solar project in the world […]
EVs Could Surge In 2020s, Says Analyst, But Technology Breakthroughs Are Still Needed
The second half of the 2010s saw the rebirth of the battery electric vehicle (BEV) however… […]
The U.S. Can Get To 90% Clean Electricity In Just 15 Years
by Adele Peters: And by 2045, the electric grid could be entirely renewable… […]
Great Britain Becomes Europe’s Second Highest Producer Of Wind
(REW Team): Britain become the second highest producer of wind generation in Europe, surpassing Spain, according to data released by EnAppSys… […]
AI Making Waves In News And Journalism
by Ron Schmelzer: The business of communicating the happenings of society might seem to be something entirely human-centric… […]
Net Zero Energy Buildings
by Charles F. Kutscher: How to design whole communities that give as much as they take… […]
Scientists Tap The World’s Most Powerful Computers In The Race To Understand And Stop The Coronavirus
by Jeremy Smith: In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the haughty supercomputer Deep Thought is asked […]
Fixing What’s Broken: If We Build a Moral Economy, The Future Will Be Better
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve been eagerly awaiting a return to normal… […]
COVID-19 HPC Consortium Pours 437 Petaflops Of Compute Power Toward Virus Research
by Kyle Wiggers: In March, IBM announced alongside the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy that it would help coordinate an effort… […]
Inside Clean Energy
by Dan Gearino: Battery storage is a vital part of a cleaner grid because it helps to fill in the gaps left by the fact that wind and solar are intermittent resources… […]
Solar Steel Production Research Scoops National Innovation Prize
by Sophie Vorrath: Research that promises to halve the greenhouse gas emissions produced by steel-making using heat from concentrated solar power has won the 2019 AMP Amplify Ignite competition… […]
General Motors Says It Is “Almost There” On Its Own Million Mile Battery
by Bridie Schmidt: American auto giant General Motors (GM) says it has, like Tesla, been working on a “million mile battery” and that it is “almost there”… […]
Is Digital Learning Still Second Best?
by Darlene Damm: As Covid-19 continues to spread, the world has gone digital on an unprecedented scale… […]
A Human-Centric World of Work: Why It Matters, And How To Build It
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: Long before coronavirus appeared and shattered our pre-existing “normal,” the future of work was a widely discussed and debated topic… […]
Big Cost Swings Point To More Big Battery Storage, Less Pumped Hydro
by Giles Parkinson: The Australian Energy Market Operator is expected to make significant revisions to its 20-year blueprint for the national grid after conceding that the capital of costs new transmission links… […]
Volvo CEO: Pandemic Will Rapidly Accelerate Shift To Electric Cars
by Bradley Berman: Volvo CEO Håkan Samuelsson said that the coronavirus will accelerate the pace of change in the auto industry… […]
The New Indiana Jones? AI. Here’s How It’s Overhauling Archaeology
by Peter Rejcek: Archaeologists have uncovered scores of long-abandoned settlements along coastal Madagascar that reveal environmental connections to modern-day communities… […]
Plastic Bottle Made From Plants Degrades In Just One Year
by Jordan Davidson: While some are trying to clean up the plastic pollution in the oceans, and others are removing it from beaches… […]
Forget Exercise—These Mice Got Ripped With Gene Therapy
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: Trying to hack fitness is a multi-million-dollar industry… […]
How Online Learning Kept Higher Ed Open During The Coronavirus Crisis
by Robert Ubell: But pandemic pedagogy is not the same as quality online learning… […]
Al Gore: The Case For Optimism On Climate Change (TED 2016)
In his latest TED talk, Al Gore, founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, poses three questions that will determine the future of our planet… […]
Al Gore – Can We Protect The Planet When It’s Not In The Interests Of The Powerful?
by Russell Brand: Environmentalist and former Vice President Al Gore joins me to discuss his new film “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power”.., […]
TimesTalks: Al Gore On Climate Change
Don’t miss this crucial conversation with former Vice President and climate change activist Al Gore on how far the battle to halt climate change has come… […]
Al Gore Answers the Web’s Most Searched Questions on Climate Change
Politician and activist Al Gore answers the Internet’s most searched questions about climate change… […]
Al Gore On Confronting the Climate Crisis | Harvard Global Institute And Harvard China Project
Sponsored by the Harvard Global Institute and the Harvard China Project, former VP Al Gore delivered a public lecture to a capacity crowd… […]