Both hydropower and conventional thermal combustion electricity is depleted in a hotter new climate. A new paper published at Nature Climate Change, Power-generation system vulnerability and adaptation to changes in climate and water resources provides a comprehensive look […]
James Hansen and many other leading climate scientists see nuclear power as essential to a climate-safe future. Substituting nuclear power for coal was also one of the 7 wedges originally proposed in 2004 by Princeton climate scientists Pacala and […]
The equivalent of 19,000 Southern California homes are now powered by a geothermal plant south of Reno, Nevada.
A $25/metric ton tax on GHG emissions would yield net budget savings of $1.06 trillion over ten years, the Congressional Budget Office reports.
Things are getting worse–not better–and science is more confident than ever that human behavior is the culprit.
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A federal court sides with conservation groups who want CO2 limits to apply to tree-burning power plants, among other industrial facilities.
Are electric car batteries really all that green? A new life cycle assessment aimed to find out.
As the world gets hotter everywhere, some areas get wetter, more drier, and extreme weather becomes more common, how will the potential of hydropower to generate renewable electricity change?
Even with its fantastic growth rate, solar PV, thanks to manufacturing and materials efficiency gains, is operating as a net energy producer, Stanford researchers say.
Yellowstone National Park demonstrates that smart microhydro projects can be emissions free and environmentally safe.
Despite enthusiastic claims over the past few years, aviation biofuels still haven’t made significant inroads in commercial use. So, when might this happen?
L.A. topped the EPA Energy Star building certification list yet again, but Washington, D.C., placed a strong second despite being less than one-sixth the size.
You don’t hear about biofuels as much as you used to, but production continues to grow. How green they are all comes down to what’s used to make them, though.