Latest Energy Stories
New Material Can Scrub Carbon Dioxide Right Out of the Air at Unprecedented Rates
Human CO2 Emissions Could Avert the Next Ice Age, Study Says
China Builds the World’s Largest Battery, a Building-Sized, 36-Megawatt-Hour Behemoth
A Rethought Calendar Makes Each Year Identical to the One Before
Portable Gamma Camera Displays Radioactivity in Real Time
Bill Gates to Collaborate With China on a Fourth-Generation Nuclear Reactor
Bacterial Lamp Can Eat Your Sewage and Light Up Your House
New Li-ion Battery Design Boosts Energy Capacity and Charge Rate 10-Fold
Researchers Turn Hydrogen Gas Into Metal
Airdrop, Which Harvests Moisture Directly From Desert Air, Wins James Dyson Award
An ‘Operating System’ That Runs on Cells Could Create Whole New Life Forms
Video: Supercooled Quantum Levitating Hoverboard Lets Students Glide on Air
Genetically Modified Algae Are Magnetic, For Ease of Manipulation
Winner of Million-Dollar X Challenge Cleans Up Oil Spills Three Times Better Than Existing Tech
Self-Powered Microbial Fuel Cells Could Serve Up Unlimited Hydrogen Supply
A Personal Turbine Makes Your Rooftop Into a Wind Farm
IBM and 3M Team Up to Make a Semiconductor Adhesive That Will Enable Next-Gen Chips
New Mexico Building a 20-Square-Mile Empty City in Which to Test Renewable Energy
13-Year-Old Designs Super-Efficient Solar Array Based on the Fibonacci Sequence
In Which We Conclude Our Trip
A Single Box of Girl Scout Cookies Could Yield $15 Billion Worth of Graphene
Can You Split Atoms of Uranium at Home in Your Kitchen? One Swedish Man Investigates
At The End Of The Earth: The Longest, Deepest Oil Wells In The World
Acoustic Diode Only Lets Sound Travel in One Direction (Read: True Soundproofing)
A Transparent Battery to Power Next-Gen See-Through Gadgets
New Study of Gulf Oil Spill Details the Plume’s Chemical Makeup, Helping Explain Where the Oil Went
New Printable Antenna Can Harvest Ambient Energy To Power Small Electronics
Philips’ Luminous Wallpaper Will Create the Mood Lighting of the Future
New Spinning Heat Sink Design Could Trim Energy Use and Unleash Processing Power
Spray-Can Cooling Foams Keep Japan Comfortably Chilled in This Summer Heat
Inside the World’s Largest Fusion Reactor
Your Set-Top Box Is Murdering Your Electric Bill. Here’s What You Can Do
Are We Prepared for a Catastrophic Solar Storm?
German Lab Generates the Strongest Magnetic Field Ever Created
Video: Solar Sinter Project Turns the Desert’s Free Abundance of Sand and Sun into 3-D-Printed Glass
Concepts & Prototypes: Two Next-Gen Nukes
The First Self-Powering Nano-Device That Can Also Transmit Wireless Data
Pocket Particle Accelerators Like This One Could Bring Safer Nuclear Power to Neighborhoods
July 2011: The Future of Energy
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Super-Dense Forms of Carbon Could Out-Sparkle the Shiniest Diamond
Quantum Entanglement Means Computers Could Cool Themselves By Deleting Information
Are We Ignoring the Small but Brilliant Innovations That Could Bridge the Energy Gap?
Space Based Solar Power
On Planning a Transcontinental Trip (With Enough Time for Recharging)
To Harvest Natural Gas From the Ocean, Shell Is Building the World’s Largest Man-Made Floating Object
A Tiny Turbine in Your Veins Could Harvest Power From Your Blood Flow
How 29 Long-Ignored Elements Could Make or Break the Clean-Energy Revolution
Former Apollo Astronaut and Senator Says Mining Helium on the Moon Could Solve The Global Energy Crisis
Burning Waste From Whisky Production, a Scottish Energy Project Will Power 9,000 Homes
New Graphene Material is Paper-Thin and Ten Times Stronger Than Steel
Across America On A Single Light Bulb’s Worth of Power
How Humans Manipulate the Planet For The Sake of a Good Game
Hydrocarbons Could Form Deep In the Earth From Methane, Not Animal Remains
Six Ways Bio-Inspired Design is Reshaping the Future
Future Firefighters Could Fight Fire With Blasts of Flame-Bending Electricity
MIT Lab Creates the World’s First Feasible ‘Artificial Leaf’
Vintage Cutaways Show the Nuclear Reactors of Our Past (and Present)
Can Next-Generation Reactors Power a Safe Nuclear Future?
How Nuclear Reactors Work, And How They Fail
My Visit to An American Rare Earth Metals Mine
Largest Undersea Cable Ever Could Export Iceland’s Abundant Geothermal Power to the Rest of Europe
Add Just a Bit of Water To Tiny Canisters And Power Fuel Cells on the Go
By Splitting the Hot from the Cold, a New Engine Design Could Dramatically Boost Efficiency
The World’s First Programmable Nanoprocessor Takes Complex Circuitry to the Nanoscale