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Infographic: America's Energy Prices Vs. The World

Think your electricity bill is high? It's not. Neither is your heating bill or the price you pay at the pump. In the grand scheme of things, in fact, you're getting a great deal.READ MORE›

A Simple App Helps You Avoid Red Lights, Saving Gas and Emissions

Using a network of smartphones mounted on car dashboards to help avoid stopping, SignalGuru can keep drivers from idling, the most fuel consuming--and frustrating--part of driving. READ MORE›

Biobutanol: The Aviation Fuel Of The Future?

A close chemical relative of the fuel in butane cigarette lighters may be what helps keep air travel viable in a post-petroleum world.READ MORE›

New Shock Absorbers Save The Shocking Amount Of Energy Wasted By Bumps In The Road

Most of the energy in that expensive gas you put in your car is wasted as heat, but new shocks could take some of that wasted energy and put it back into the car, giving you way more bang for the burn.READ MORE›

Bill Gates Funds Human Waste To Biofuel Project In Ghana

Developing countries lack both clean water and clean energy sources. By converting soiled water into energy and clean water, a new project could wipe away both problems.READ MORE›

Ethanol: Clean Fuel, Expensive Food

Is renewable energy worth it if it makes it harder to eat?READ MORE›

There Is No Silver Bullet To Kill Carbon, But Maybe We Just Need Silver Buckshot

There is no one solution, but a plethora of smaller projects will slowly be the death of our carbon economy.READ MORE›

Move Over Earth, Wind & Fire: Sun, Air, and Water May One Day Power Everything

Scientists at CalTech are developing a technique that converts water, air, and sunlight into different kinds of fuel that could power everything from car engines to fuel cells in cell phones. It sounds almost too good to be true.READ MORE›

Engineered Bacteria Can Convert Sunlight, CO2 Into Diesel Fuel

In early 2011, researchers patented a process involving a genetically-modified form of blue-green bacteria that converts sunlight and carbon dioxide directly into diesel fuel.READ MORE›

Why Is Monsanto Backing an Algae Fuel Startup?

The often-vilified agriculture giant has made a deal that could actually do some good for sustainable development: a partnership with and an equity investment in algae fuel startup Sapphire Energy. What's going on?READ MORE›

Biofuel-Harvesting Palm Oil Plantations Drive CO2 Levels Higher

Biofuels may cut down on CO2 emissions compared to petroleum, but the palm oil used to make them has the nasty effect of releasing CO2 into the atmosphere.READ MORE›

Could We See Fuel Rationing by 2020?

With secret government talks suggesting peak oil may be nearer than we think and IEA insiders claiming world oil stats have been inflated, it makes sense to start planning for a world where energy is much scarcer than we have gotten used to. READ MORE›

X-Prize Winning Car: Like the General Lee but Less Hazardous to Planet With 100-plus MPG

Half of the $10 million prize fund for the fuel efficiency Automotive X-Prize is about to be handed to the team behind The Very Light Car--the vehicle has just beaten the competition's target of 100 miles per gallon efficiency.READ MORE›

Military Teaches Warthog to Guzzle Biofuel

Check this out for a brain-twisting juxtaposition: The U.S. military has successfully tested out a biofuel system for a "Warthog" A10 Thunderbolt II, one of the most feared combat aircraft in the World. Which is now fluffily ...READ MORE›

Maria Alovert, Biodiesel Advocate

Maria Alovert, a Berkely activist, is using old water heaters and the Internet to train the next generation of biodiesel fanatics.READ MORE›

Uncommon Indicator: Gas at $3 Per Gallon

Fuel costs are climbing--does that mean our confidence is doing the same?READ MORE›

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Joule Biotechnologies Figures Out How to Make Fuel From Air

It seems impossible, but biofuel startup Joule Biotechnologies claims that it has successfully produced fuel out of thin air--sort of. The company's mysterious engineered microbes require just sunlight and CO2 to squirt out ethanol, ...READ MORE›