A cheap, ubiquitous and flexible fuel, with just one problem WHAT more could one want? It is cheap and simple to extract, ship and burn. It is abundant: proven reserves amount to 109 years o... Read more
A new study finds that in Texas, the U.S. state that annually generates the most electricity, the transition from coal to natural gas for electricity generation is saving water and making th... Read more
UH PHYSICISTS FIND A COMPOUND TO MORE EFFICIENTLY CONVERT WASTE HEAT TO ELECTRICAL POWER Physicists at the University of Houston’s physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivi... Read more
“The problem with a lot of clean-tech deals is that they have been about the way you make things in high volume or in production, which means you can’t prove out the ideas unless you... Read more
Here’s the idea: it’s time to help China master fracking safely. We have been thinking about an idea in the opinion pages of the New York Times to tackle one of the great challen... Read more
PNNL’s concentrating solar power system reduces greenhouse emissions — at a price that’s competitive with fossil fuel power Natural gas power plants can use about 20 percent less fuel... Read more
Expressing surprise at the enormous increase in U.S. production of oil and natural gas by unconventional means, Thomas Helbling, a division chief in the IMF’s (International Monetary Fund) R... Read more
The Backbone of the Electric System “Energy policy” and “clean energy” may be political hot buttons this year, but the technological realities and challenges to achieving energy and environm... Read more
Deferring the Need for New Infrastructure for instance . . . Large-scale energy storage technologies are often hailed as a key to enabling increased use of intermittent renewable energy reso... Read more
So, what are fracking opponents up against? There is currently no more contested U.S. energy initiative than to pen up the country’s vast potential reserves of natural gas by utilizing the “... Read more
The US economy is at least twice as efficient in energy use today as it was two decades ago There is growing euphoria over America’s energy future. Energy experts around the globe have... Read more
Materials Engineered to Give Off Precisely Tuned Wavelengths of Light When Heated A new photovoltaic energy-conversion system developed at MIT can be powered solely by heat, generating elect... Read more