You May Not Own A Car In 10 Years
by Peter Diamandis: The era of the internal combustion engine (ICE) car is ending. We may have reached “peak ICE…” […]
It’s Official: Solar Is The Cheapest Electricity In History
by Caroline Delbert: Tough break for fossil fuels… […]
5 New Battery Technologies That Will Change The Future
by Karen Wilhelm: Your phone is about to go dead—again—and you can’t find a place to plug it in… […]
Tesla’s New Structural Battery Pack — It’s Not Cell-To-Pack, It’s Cell-To-Body
by Chanan Bos: Tesla’s Battery Day was not just full of surprises… […]
The Immense Potential Of Solar Panels Floating On Dams
by Prachi Patel: Putting solar farms on water has benefits, but coupling them with hydropower amps them up and could provide almost half of the world’s electricity… […]
Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Wind Power
by Liz Hartman: 10. Human civilizations have harnessed wind power for thousands of years… […]
Want To Improve Wind And Solar Power? Bring Them Together
by Ben Jervey: By combining intermittent renewable energy sources through hybrid projects, developers are taking advantage of the strengths of each… […]
The Secret to a Greener, Longer-Lasting Battery Is Blue
by David Stringer: A sodium-based technology is proving more effective for some uses. […]
Hurricane-Resistant Building Code Helped Protect Alabama From Sally’s Winds
by Daniel Cusick: Coastal areas of the state are national leaders in adopting a standard that protects roofs… […]
Tesla Delivers 140,000 Vehicles, Smashing Previous Records
by Timothy B. Lee: Tesla needs to grow rapidly to justify its astronomical share price… […]
‘The Social Dilemma’ Will Freak You Out—But There’s More To The Story
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: Dramatic political polarization. Rising anxiety and depression. An uptick in teen suicide rates. Misinformation that spreads like wildfire… […]
The Integral Role of Geothermal Heat Pumps in Beneficial Electrification
Design professional have perhaps the most difficult task when trying to adapt to new industry goals. […]
Liberty Utilities Plans Solar + Storage Microgrid For Wildfire Mitigation
by (REW): Last week, BoxPower announced that Liberty Utilities will be using its system to set up a microgrid at a remote mountain research station… […]
Hawaiian Electric Proposes 300 MW Of Renewables
by (REW): plus 2000 MWh of storage to replace coal on the islands… […]
Tesla Introduced A Business Model The World Has Not Seen Before
by Alex Voigt: You can save tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars with continuous improvements to a Tesla… […]
New Zealand Is About to Test Long-Range Wireless Power Transmission
by Jason Dorrier: A famous image of inventor Nikola Tesla shows him casually sitting on a chair, legs crossed, taking notes… […]
First Community Solar Project In Hawaii Gets Go-Ahead
Yesterday, Hawaiian Electric Company said it had approved the first community solar project in the state… […]
This Startup Is Growing Sushi-Grade Salmon From Cells In A Lab
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: As the ills of factory farming become more pronounced, people are increasingly gravitating towards vegetarian or pescatarian diets… […]
Zoom Is Failing Teachers. Here’s How They Would Redesign It
by Suzanne LaBarre: Millions of students are learning through Zoom this fall. So why does it still feel like a corporate meeting app that has been MacGyvered into an education platform? […]
Catalyst Could Help Turn Seawater Into Fuel For Navy Ships
by Bob Marcotte: A “potassium-promoted” catalyst brings the Navy’s quest to power its ships by converting seawater into fuel closer to reality, researchers report… […]
A U.S. Firm Is Turning Arabian Desert Air Into Bottled Water
by Verity Ratcliffe: The Arabian Desert scarcely seems like an ideal place to source drinking water… […]
Elon Musk’s Claims About Brain Company Mostly Backed By Science
by Sarah McBride: Neuralink is one of the world’s most hyped biotech companies. Will it perform as promised? Here’s what scientists make of the hype… […]
2022 Nicola Badger
by (Car and Driver): The intriguing influx of electric pickup trucks gets even more interesting with the 2022 Nikola Badger, which will offer electric and hydrogen-electric powertrains… […]
Microsoft’s New Deepfake Detector Puts Reality To The Test
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: The upcoming US presidential election seems set to be something of a mess—to put it lightly… […]
Could Renewables Become The Top UK Power Source Of 2020?
by Jemma King: Europe has recently sailed past one of the major milestones of any major energy transformation program… […]
Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades
by Jonathan Gitlin: The study ran for nine years at Norway’s Smøla wind farm… […]
The Conscience Of Silicon Valley
by Zach Baron: Tech oracle Jaron Lanier warned us all about the evils of social media. Too few of us listened. Now, in the most chaotic of moments, his fears—and his bighearted solutions—are more urgent [...]
Energy Storage Systems Market To Expand By Over 6% Per Annum
by (Smart Energy): The global energy storage systems market size surpassed $340 billion in 2018 and is set to achieve over 6% CAGR up to 2025, according to a report released by Global Market Insights… [...]
These Sleek Houses Are 3D Printed, And They Fit in Your Backyard
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: If you’d told me ten years ago that I could go live in a house built by a giant concrete-spitting 3D printer… […]
The Time For Electric Trucks And Buses Is Now
by Katie Fehrenbacher: Despite the pandemic, sales of electric trucks and buses are expected to surge in the United States and Canada over the next couple of years… […]
Lyft Plans To Electrify All Of Its Cars By 2030
by Katie Fehrenbacher: In an unprecedented move, the ride-hailing company Lyft revealed Wednesday it plans to electrify every car on its platform… […]
Why The Electric Vehicle Wave Is Still Coming
by Katie Fehrenbacher: If you look at the 2020 annual estimates for global electric vehicle sales, it sure seems grim… […]
Is This Electric Plane The Future Of Flying?
by David Elliott: The world’s largest all-electric plane has completed its maiden voyage, flying for 30 minutes in the skies above Washington state… […]
How Falling Solar Costs Have Renewed Clean Hydrogen Hopes
by James Temple: As nations do the hard math on how to meet their climate goals, green hydrogen increasingly appears essential… […]
New Technique To Capture CO2 More Efficiently Could Reduce Power Plant Greenhouse Gases
by (University Of Berkley): Tetraamine-modified MOFs remove 90% of CO2 more efficiently and cheaply… […]
A Quintillion Calculations A Second: DOE Calculating The Benefits Of Exascale And Quantum Computers
by (U.S Dept Of Energy): A quintillion calculations a second. That’s one with 18 zeros after it… […]
SpaceX, United Launch Alliance Win Major Pentagon Launch Contracts
by William Harwood: United Launch Alliance, builder of Atlas 5, Delta 4 and new Vulcan rockets, and SpaceX, builder of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy boosters, won lucrative long-term Pentagon contracts Friday… […]
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… […]