Of course, the more efficient your gas-powered vehicle is – and the less you drive – the less you’ll pay in gas taxes. Hybrids and plug-in hybrids are exempt from the EV tax, since they still use ...

The U.S. Army had a power problem, and the consequence was no small matter: Troops were left more vulnerable to sniper attacks. But now, the Army says, the use of solar and wind systems is keeping the ...

There are some chores I’ve just never stopped hating. Dishes are one of them, making the bed is another. Although we’ve got a fairly new dishwasher it still takes some doing to get me motivated enough ...

More companies and organizations are finally putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to sustainability. Most recently, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, which provides non-profit ...

Drones have been a hot topic in the media lately. Whether they’re for surveillance or combat, the idea of drones patrolling our airspace is one that’s not taken lightly by the public. As we struggle ...

The Obama administration says that SunShot, the R&D program to bring down the cost of solar-generated electricity to where it’s competitive with conventionally sourced electricity, is 60 percent of ...

We’ve talked here before in stories on high speed rail how the United States is far, far behind others part of the world like China and Europe when it comes to deployment. Around this time two years ...

On the EarthTechling Utterly Cool Projects Scale™, the EnviroMission Solar Tower project might be unrivaled. More than 2,600 feet tall, with a mile-in-diameter greenhouse canopy at its base creating ...

Hydrogen peroxide has been used as an antiseptic since the 1920s and still commonly used today. Not only is it effective against bacteria, but it is also antiviral and antifungal, making it a great ...

The Passive House concept is said to have come out of a 1988 conversation between a German and a Swede. Research projects were funded, the first Passivhaus (PH) residences were built in 1990, and the ...

If these UCLA researchers are right – and we might find out pretty soon – energy storage could be in for a big change. Richard Kaner and his graduate student Maher El-Kady have been trumpeting ...

In his speech the European Commissioner for energy, Günther Oettinger, stated that electric mobility was a major focus within European energy policy. “Since mobility does not stop at the borders of ...