Renewable Energy

Emerging Tech: Power Plant: One Small Leaf Could Electrify an Entire Home

Scientists at MIT have created what may be the first practical artificial leaf -- a device about the size of a playing card capable of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen and storing the energy in a fuel cell.

Let them eat sprawl

Smart Growth really is smarter...debunking an argument against better growth and development

The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment

Frustration. That is the best way to describe the experience of reading The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment. Page after page reveals the history of industries spewing toxins into our air, water, and soil and a government more apt to look the other way.

Biologists scour Mojave in desert tortoise roundup

More than 100 biologists and contract workers fanned out across a nearly pristine stretch of the eastern Mojave Desert on Friday to start rounding up tortoises blocking construction of the first major solar energy plant to be built on public land in Southern California.

Red rocks tar sands mine project approved

A Canadian company received approval for a new tar sands strip mining project near Moab, Utah, in spite of concerns raised by environmentists.

Flexible Solar Power Shingles Transform Roofs From Wasted Space To Energy Source

A transparent thin film barrier used to protect flat panel TVs from moisture could become the basis for flexible solar panels that would be installed on roofs like shingles.

Hybrid help: Can Bill Gates make the electromagnetic combustion engine a reality?

It's no wonder inventors are racing to develop the best type of engine to power tomorrow's fleet of hybrids as automakers rush to get enviro-friendly cars on the road and consumers are tempted by a new $7,500 tax incentive being offered for buying one.

6 Hidden Environmental Truths Revealed (mapping gallery)

Illustrations provide insight on sustaining humanity and alternative energy spending. From Atlas of the Real World

To Save Money and Energy, Md. Couple Builds Windmill in Back Yard

As smoke rose from the power plant just across Cuckold Creek, one of the first residential windmills in Maryland began providing the Elliott-Robinson home with a greener source of electricity yesterday.

Shape-Shifting EV Is the Ultimate iPhone Killer App

Swiss auto tuner Rinspeed is rolling into the Geneva Motor Show with a wild shape-shifting, iPhone-controlled electric concept car that adapts to suit the number of passengers.

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