Latest Energy Stories
How Nuclear Reactors Work, And How They Fail
Could Bacteria Placed In Oil Wells Convert Oil to Natural Gas While It’s Still in the Well?
NREL Improves On Swamp Cooler Tech to Create 90 Percent More Efficient Air Conditioner
Lockheed’s Fusion Promise: What We Know So Far
My Visit to An American Rare Earth Metals Mine
DOE Exploring Superconducting Magnet Scheme for Grid Energy Storage
Largest Undersea Cable Ever Could Export Iceland’s Abundant Geothermal Power to the Rest of Europe
To Power Future Battles, DARPA Wants Combat-Tough Solar Cells
Researchers Make One-Atom-Thin Electrical Generator
Nephelios, a Manned Solar-Powered Blimp, Prepares To Cross the English Channel
At New York City’s biggest power plant, a switch to clean energy will help a neighborhood breathe easier
A Memristor-Based Processor Solves Mazes, Using the Power of Parallel Computing
When Things Fall Apart
Add Just a Bit of Water To Tiny Canisters And Power Fuel Cells on the Go
National Ignition Facility Announces Record Amount Of Fusion Energy
Aerodynamic Rocket Nozzle Tech Could Be Repurposed to Efficiently Capture CO2
NREL’s Zero-Energy Research Building, Largest in Nation, Generates as Much Power as it Uses
Giant Clams Are Greenhouses For Algae
A border wall made of solar panels wouldn’t actually be good for the environment
Diamond Bullet Fired at 1000 Km/S Could Produce Nuclear Fusion, Chinese Researchers Say
By Splitting the Hot from the Cold, a New Engine Design Could Dramatically Boost Efficiency
Swiss Solar-Powered Plane Successfully Completes Groundbreaking 26-Hour Night Flight
The Quest To Harness Wind Energy At 2,000 Feet
Infrared Maps Give Belgian Homeowners a Bird’s-Eye View of Their Houses’ Energy Efficiency
Convenient Home Recycler Turns Plastic Garbage Back Into Ready-To-Use Petroleum
Seven Big-Thinking Proposals For Dealing With Nuclear Waste
How It Works: The Next-Gen Wind Turbine
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Keystone XL was supposed to be a green pipeline. What does that even mean?
Vibration-Powered AA Battery Charges Up When You Shake It
Fracking fluid is leaking more often than we thought
The World’s First Programmable Nanoprocessor Takes Complex Circuitry to the Nanoscale
Nuclear Waste Repository
Whitening Cities’ Roofs Is Environmental Equivalent of Taking 300 Million Cars Off the Road, DoE Study Says
The worst thing about electric cars might not be an issue for much longer
Toilet Tech: A Power Generator Turns Falling Wastewater Into Electricity
Largest-Ever Solar-Powered Boat Prepares for a World Tour
Attractive Italian Viaduct Has Wind Turbines Built In
A Slick Fix: Oil-Eating Robots Could Mop Up Ocean Disasters
An All-Liquid Battery For Storing Solar And Wind Energy
Stained Glass Windows That Double As Solar Panels
Using Muons as a Disguise, Chemists Fool Helium Into Thinking It’s Hydrogen
X-Prize Challenge Offers $1.4 Million for Revolutionary Oil Cleanup Tech
Solar Car Powers Your House When It’s Parked
China’s New Super-City Will Merge Nine Urban Centers into a Single, 16,000-Square-Mile Megatropolis
When Disaster Strikes, This Bike Generator Will Give Me Power [Video]
Stanford’s New Solar Cells Are The First to Produce Electricity From Both Light and Heat
A Shift in Nuclear Powers [Infographic]
Not Just New York: Gas Leaks Are A Problem All Over The U.S.
Waste Heat Is Free Energy. So Why Aren’t We Using It?
Leaves In Chernobyl Area Are Decaying Unusually Slowly
Like Sassy Teenagers, Atoms Talk Back
Big Pic: The World’s Largest Solar Power Tower Field
Italian Scientists Claim (Dubious) Cold Fusion Breakthrough
Particle Accelerators Could Be Used to Produce Energy (and Plutonium)
Video: Panasonic Ships A Snowman 8,000 Kilometers to the Desert, In a Cardboard Box
DoE Invests In First Flywheel Power-Storage Plant
Marines in Afghanistan Find That Solar Panels Save Soldiers’ Lives
5 famous environmental disasters where humans and nature healed together
Grid Could Meet Sudden Energy Demands By Storing Power As Liquid Oxygen
The President’s decision to leave the Paris Agreement will likely hurt America even more than the environment
4 sustainability experts on how they’d spend Elon Musk’s $100 million climate commitment
Wind Turbines Learn From Warplanes To Not Block Radar
Deepwater Horizon Spill May Be Responsible For Heart Defects In Fish
Explaining this week’s deadly US cold snap