Renewable Energy

Riversimple has a production prototype for a mass-marketable hydrogen-powered car, and an unconventional plan for how people will use it. The company is hoping to have the vehicles come to market by 2018, but real-world prototype testing is already underway… Read More

United Airlines has taken the first step towards building a biofuel-powered fleet. New biofuel blends are being tested on short-run flights in hopes that they’ll prove to be a valuable tool to cutting airline carbon emissions worldwide. United Airlines is… Read More

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 at how… Read More

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 Socolow;… Read More

We’ve all heard about how as more CO2 is released into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels; more is being absorbed by oceans, and that is making the ocean too acidic so that shellfish can’t make shells anymore. But CO2… Read More

The US Navy is ushering in an era of unprecedented military energy innovation with the deployment of its Great Green Fleet. On January 20th, the missile destroyer USS Stockdale officially became the first US Navy ship to use a biofuel… Read More

Wind power has hit an important milestone in America, with 980 working wind installations generating 70 gigawatts of renewable electricity. Solar power gets a lot of attention because it’s so much more visible to many of us, quietly working away… Read More

Remote communities face unique challenges where electricity is concerned. Renewable microgrids help them overcome those challenges and provide reliable power for individuals living there. To live in a remote place is to depend on oil. Fuel for the ships or… Read More

Wind power companies operating in the Altamont region of California are reducing the environmental impact of their older turbines, which are a threat to several protected bird species. The Altamont pass, in the mountains east of San Francisco, is home… Read More

An Oregon voters’ ballot initiative would garnish the wages of power company executives who won’t shut down coal power stations in the state. A ballot initiative, from the environmental group Renew Oregon aims to shut down coal-fired power in the… Read More

  The 8 top GHG emitters, including China, India and the US, will double renewable generation from 9,000 Terawatt hours to 20,000 Terawatt hours Plans submitted ahead of the Paris COP 21 climate talks indicate that 8 of the top… Read More

It might be possible to take billions of tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere by freezing Antarctic air. Until the last few years, no one has ever proposed storing CO2 under ice. “There really hasn’t been any suggestion of… Read More

The IEA has long assessed a need for investment of $1 trillion a year in clean energy like wind and solar to meet the 2 C target Back in 2009, after the Copenhagen Conference of the Parties (COP)19 failed to… Read More