To stay warm when temperatures drop outside, we heat our indoor spaces — even when no one is in them. But scientists have now developed a novel nanowire coating for clothes that can both gen... Read more
A Norwegian research group has been able to achieve bio-oil yields of 79% from a common kelp. Other researchers working with the same species have yields closer to 20%. The secret is to heat... Read more
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
Coal use continues to rise despite recent announcements that development banks will no longer fund the technology For those concerned about the impact of coal-burning power plants on the wor... Read more
The growth of wind, solar and hydropower offers hope for restraining climate change Within the next three years, renewable power could surpass natural gas as the second most prevalent source... 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
The research is delivered as a warning to asset managers, shareholders and bankers Call it an act of the greatest folly, or simply one of greed. But it seems that the world’s energy companie... Read more
WE will need fossil fuels like oil and gas for the foreseeable future. So there’s really little choice (sigh). We have to press ahead with fracking for natural gas. We must approve th... Read more
“Energy independence” is a concept that has become part of the political lexicon and touted as a panacea for a downturn economy. Recently, the concept has morphed into “energy security... Read more
Before the close of the decade, the United States could become the world’s top producer of oil and natural gas. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), increasing domestic produc... Read more
New cars and trucks could improve fuel efficiency by 50 percent if existing technologies such as hybrids are adopted Fuel efficiency of new vehicles could improve by 50 percent in the next t... Read more
And the starting point of that golden age is right here in America. Last year, the world’s energy watchdog published a report which asked an important question: “Are we entering... Read more
Vast newly discovered natural gas resources and the expectation that demand for the fuel will rise substantially in fast-growing economies are ushering in a “Golden Age of Gas,”... Read more
REMEMBER “peak oil”? It’s the theory that geological scarcity will at some point make it impossible for global petroleum production to avoid falling, heralding the end of the oil age Read more
Image via Wikipedia A new assessment of future scenarios that limit the extent of global warming cautions that unless current imbalances in R&D portfolios for the development of new, eff... Read more
