A US research team inspired by the work of twin sisters from a New York high school has identified a low-cost but effective catalyst that could replace expensive ...
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While most people today might be smarter than the average traffic signal, we could — in the future — enjoy easier commutes and better gas mileage with the help of traffic lights using human-like “intelligence.” Using computer games and simulations, researchers at the UK’s University o...
Interesting energy developments in Germany’s capital: even as cash-strapped cities and government agencies elsewhere in the world continue to sell off public assets to corporate owners, citizens in Berlin want to buy back the city’s power supply from Vattenfall. As reported in Renewab...
Changing climate could change the way we eat Posted on July 4, 2012 · Posted in Sustainability Climate change could make many of the foods we now take for granted unaffordable in the future. Everything from rice and wheat to meat and fresh vegetables could become far more expensive if...
Announced this week, the newly formed Concentrating Solar Power Alliance (CSPA) is aimed at “educating US regulators, utilities and grid operators about the unique benefits of concentrating solar power (CSP) and of thermal energy storage as a foundational resource for a reliable, low-...
Now, in most developed economies, oil is no longer a major fuel source for generating electricity. Instead, most of our electric power comes from a combination of other fossil fuels — coal or natural gas — and from renewables like wind, solar, hydro and biomass. (There’s also nuclear,...
Energy efficiency: Green economy’s neglected stepchild? Published Monday, 27th February 2012 If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or jump onto our free newsletter . You can now also find us on twitter and Facebook too. Come and join the discussion. Is efficien...
Look at what IBM is currently doing in the Chinese city of Zhenjiang. Using its Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities, Big Blue aims to help the city of three million use analytics to not only enable real-time bus monitoring and management, but to simulate traffic flow patt...
CAES appears to be a good option for longer-term energy storage that can “save up” solar power for hours, days, weeks or longer. On the other hand, lithium-ion batteries might prove the better choice for managing short-term variability — ie, dealing with on-and-off fluctuations in sol...
