It's hard for some people to wrap their heads around the idea of not burning anything to get their heat, but at Indiana's Ball State, the entire campus will soon be heated and cooled by nothing more than heat from the ground.READ»
We don't get that much power from renewables these days, but we've come a long way in the last 40 years. These maps--which track the number of solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass installations--illustrate that poignant fact.READ»
Spending on renewable energy is at an all-time high around the world, and in some of the poorest places on Earth, it may mean leapfrogging over dirty power sources in favor of clean ones.READ»
People love to prognosticate about how the world will power itself in the future. But only one person can be right. Here's some of the possible ways the next 50 years might turn out.READ»
As the clean energy industry emerges from a challenging period caused by the global economic downturn, it is entering a stage of rapid change in which business models are being transformed against a backdrop of regulatory uncertainty. READ»
The U.S. Department of Energy is continuing on its clean-energy loan spree, this time with a $96.8 million loan guarantee for an Oregon geothermal project. READ»
Geothermal technology is the ugly duckling of the renewable energy industry--it's not nearly as flashy as wind or solar, and it deals with the most unsexy of materials: rocks. But Australian company Geodynamics just got a big push ...READ»
Ambitious clean energy goals abound--the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, for example, proposes the switch to 42% renewable energy in the U.S by 2030--but are we selling ourselves short? Stanford civil and environmental ...READ»
Yesterday (September 22), President Obama addressed the United Nations Climate Change Summit with a speech focused on how the United States is "determined" to combat Climate Change. While the Waxman-Markey bill has been held up in the ...READ»
Wondering if that beer on your counter was made with renewable energy? The Environmental Protection Agency might be able to tell you. That's because the agency just released its list of the top 20 organizations running on "green ...READ»
The Pentagon's DARPA arm is known for its attempts to reduce devices to microchip size. Projects have included multi-purpose sensors, cryogenic coolers, video cameras, and apparently, "Chip-Scale High Energy Atomic ...READ»
Every renewable energy source has its downside--nuclear power uses radioactive material, wind turbines generate noise complaints, solar production can leach chemicals into water supplies, and geothermal projects...cause earthquakes?READ»
The results from Johnson Controls' Energy Efficiency Indicator (EEI) survey are back, with few surprises. The report, which surveyed 1,400 North American executives in charge of energy management, found that the execs are ...READ»
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