New discovery allows low-grade silicon to be turned into high-efficiency solar panels
Some technical breakthroughs are great because they push back the limits of what we can do, bringing us to new summits, while other are great because they allow us to do more with what we already have.
Latest Stories in Energy - Page 13
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Super Absorbent Material for Oil Spill Cleanup Demonstrated
A new material can absorb 40 times its weight in oil, and could dramatically decrease environmental impact of oil spills, its developers claim.
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Romney & Obama Clash Over Clean Energy in First Debate
Romney had some harsh words for Obama's investment in clean energy; oil subsidies and coal also littered the candidates' first debate.
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Texas Homeowner Speaks Out About TransCanada Taking Her Land for Keystone XL Pipeline (Video)
Eleanor Fairchild talks about TransCanada taking her land, and beginning tree clearing without promised notice or explanation.
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Wind is the Cheapest Power Source in the World, Report Says
If, that is, you take into account the myriad costs that polluting energy sources impose on public health.
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New York Steps Back From the Fracking Abyss, For Now
The Cuomo administration has restarted the entire review process for fracking in New York State, opening up a new period of public commenting, pusing off a decision on permitting hydraulic fracturing into 2013 at earliest.
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Warren Buffet Buys Two Wind Farms
A subsidiary of Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway just bought up two giant California wind farms.
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Renewable Energy Output in the UK Jumped 42% Last Year
The UK continues its push for clean power, which now accounts for nearly 10% of total energy generated.
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Fully Charged Visits The Clean Energy City of the Future
Masdar has been making waves for quite some time now. But what does it look like now this $2bn "clean energy city" is actually taking shape?
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Wind Power Passes 100 Gigawatt in EU
It took a decade to install the first 10 gigawatts, but just thirteen years to install the next 90 gigawatts.
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Wyoming Water Was Contaminated by Fracking - USGS Study Confirms EPA Findings
High levels of gas concentration appear to come from fossil fuels and are not naturally occurring.
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French Oil Company CEO Calls Arctic Oil Drilling a Potential "Disaster"
Total's Christophe de Margerie says the risk to his company of Arctic oil drilling is too much to consider. Greenpeace concurs.
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Offshore Wind Turbines Could Meet Power Demands of Entire East Coast
140,000 offshore wind turbines could fully electrify one-third of the United States, according to a new analysis.
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Most Biofuels Better Than Oil For Greenhouse Gases, Worse or Similar Eco-Impact Otherwise: New Study
A new Swiss assessment of the environmental impact of biofuels shows that they are actually worse than oil on a variety of important criteria, such as contributing to ocean dead zones and resource depletion.
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US Navy Looks to Make Jet Fuel From Seawater
The Navy thinks it may be able to get the cost per gallon to the $3-6 range eventually.
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Ethanol Plant Carbon Sequestration Makes a Million Tons of CO2 Disappear
Biorecro's technology adds an important element to carbon capture and sequestration - the ability to create negative emissions.
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Two-Thirds of All Solar Panels Installed Last Year Were in Europe
China may be making half of all the solar panels in the world, but Europe is installing them, with an additional 18.5 GW installed across the continent last year.
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Shell Sues Greenpeace to Stop More Anti-Oil Drilling Protests
Get this, Shell accuses Greenpeace of putting human lives and the environment at risk.
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Quebec's New Government Looks to Ban Fracking
New natural resources minister Martine Ouellet says she doesn't think fracking can ever be done safely.
