Alaskan state officials have recently announced their intentions to begin funding the exploration and surveying of Alaska’s largest volcanoes in hopes of utilizing these as a source of geothermal energy which they say could provide enough energy to power thousands ...

Jessika Trancik of the Santa Fe Institute, Scott Calabrese Barton of Michigan State University, and James Hone of Columbia University have recently combined forces toward improving solar cells. Their new research shows that a film of carbon nanotubes may be ...

Swiss adventurer Louis Palmer set off on his promotional round-the-world trip last July, in order to call attention to global warming and existing solutions for oil independence. During his trip he has demonstrated the zero-emission, globe-trotting Solar Taxi to heads ...

Greg Pal is a senior director of LS9, one of several companies in or near Silicon Valley that have spurned traditional high-tech activities such as software in order to embark on an extraordinary race to make the dependency for oil ...

Researchers at the A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics in Singapore, led by Chang-yun Jiang, have developed highly bendable “dye-sensitized” solar cells made from zinc oxide nanowire photoelectrodes on plastic substrates. The researchers found that the nanowires are highly resistant to cracking ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation hopes to excite interest in biofuels to help the ailing airline industry. In order to do so, it joined hands with the X Prize Foundation to launch a competition to develop a new bio-jet fuel, ...

Kennedy & Violich Architecture (KVA), a firm founded by associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Sheila Kennedy, is working on a project called the ”Soft House”. KVA Matx’s Soft House uses curtains and textiles for energy harvesting, ...

TH!NK, a Norwegian company, has developed a platform concept vehicle named ‘The Ox’. TH!NK Ox is a five-seater, fully electric car, which is capable of accelerating from 0 to 100km/hr in less than 8.5 seconds, and can reach a top ...

The California based Company Green Plug has developed a single universal adapter that enables users to power their laptops, cell phones, and other electronic gear with only one power adapter. This technology could help the environment by eliminating the need ...

Milner Motors, an American company founded by James Milner, has developed the ElectriCar, a 4-door, 4-seat, 4-wheel, plug-in hybrid electric car. This lightweight, strong car is designed to be as aerodynamic as possible and can operate for two hours on ...