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How Giant Concrete Balls Could Make Wind Power More Efficient
A Solar Dish That Makes Electricity And Fresh Water
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Solar Panels Now Make More Electricity Than They Use
Scientists Engineer Extreme Microorganisms To Make Fuel From Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Massive Solar Power Plant Opens In Abu Dhabi
NASA Resumes Production Of Plutonium-238 Space Fuel After 25 Years
15 Incredible Images Of Futuristic Skyscrapers
Combination Ski Slope-Trash Incinerator Breaks Ground In Copenhagen
How To Create A More Resilient Power Grid
Make Your Own DIY Solar Charger
Video: Japanese Eco-Friendly Building Demolition Method Harvests Energy As It Destroys
Fake Snow Made From Sewage Comes Out Yellow
Mississippi River May Soon Be Unnavigable, Despite Army Geoengineers’ Best Efforts
How The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Made Kids Fat
Peter Thiel’s Latest Pet Project: Tornado-Powered Energy
New Lighting Could Replace Fluorescents, CFLs, and LEDs As The Light Source Of The Future
To Make Steam Without Boiling Water, Just Add Sunlight And Nanoparticles
How The Science Of Tribology Could Smooth The Way To A Better Energy System
Blueprint: A Kite That Captures Energy
The Pacific Island Chain of Tokelau Is The First Territory Powered Solely By Solar
How The U.S. Coast Guard Is Fixing The N.J. Oil Spill Caused By Sandy
IBM Transistors Made Of Nanotubes Could Replace Silicon, In Ever-Tinier Computer Chips
How Designers Plan To Create ‘The Route 66 Of The Future’
Can Andrea Rossi’s Infinite-Energy Black Box Power The World–Or Just Scam It?
Late Electronics Maverick Stanford R. Ovshinsky In The Pages Of PopSci
In Alchemy-Like Process, Researchers Make Iron Behave Like Platinum
A New Rooftop Coating Makes Buildings ‘Sweat’ To Cut Cooling Costs
Brilliant 10: Greg Nielson Shrinks Solar Cells To The Size Of Glitter
Microsoft Dodges $210,000 Fine By Wasting Millions Of Watts Of Electricity
Russia is Building the World’s Largest Nuclear-Powered Icebreaker
Monorail-Riding Robots Could Continually Rearrange Solar Panels to Follow the Sun
The Future of Electronics is Just One Single Molecule Thick
Panasonic’s Artificial Photosynthesis Turns Water, Sunlight, and CO2 into Useful Chemicals
For the First Time, X-Ray Video Looks Inside Live Working Batteries
Chernobyl Now
National Ignition Facility Cranks Laser Up to Record 500 Trillion Watts
Video: The Dream of a Thorium-Fueled Future
Wind-Powered Car Travels At Twice the Speed of the Wind
IBM Tackles Boston Traffic, Merging Multiple Data Streams to Predict, Ease Congestion
Rough Sketch: “A Snail Could Be Used as a Battery”
By Twisting Light Signals into a Vortex, Researchers Create Fastest Wireless Connection Ever
Video: MIT’s Latest User Interface Employs Gravity-Defying, Levitating Metal Orbs
High-Speed Data Link Made from Laser Pointers Works Where Wi-Fi Won’t
Turbine Condenses Clean Water From the Air and Generates Wind Power At the Same Time
Video: An Inflatable, Flying Turbine Goes Higher to Find Stronger Winds
Deformities in Gulf Seafood Found After BP Oil Spill
NASA Invests In Satellites That Beam Power Down to Earth
How It Works: Building a Kilometer-Long Pipe Deep Under the Sea
The Denver Zoo’s Poo-Powered Rickshaw Turns Animal Waste into Energy
Swimming On The Hot Side
Yes, Deepwater Horizon Oil Did Enter the Food Chain
Breaking Blades: The Engineering Lab Where Wind-Power Propellers Get Built To Be Snapped
“Designer Electrons” Can Be Custom-Made for Future Devices
Holey Optochip! The One-Trillion-Bits-Per-Second Chip is Here
Thermoelectric “Power Felt” Fabric Lets You Sit on Your Phone to Power It
Video: Watch Kink Instability Corkscrew a Jet of Super-Hot Argon Gas
How to Pump Half a Million Gallons of Fuel From a Listing Cruise Liner
Paint Your Roof With Working Solar Cells Made from Grass Clippings
New Magnetic Soap Could Clean Oil Spills With No Suds Left Behind
A New Faster Fourier Transform Can Speed One of IT’s Fundamental Algorithms
Metamaterials Can Exert a Whole New Kind of Force
What’s the Most Efficient Design For a Solar Collector? Shape It Like a Sunflower
Scientists Build a Data Storage Device Out of Salmon DNA