Instead of accepting federal fuel subsidies, Jason Edens bought a solar heater. And now his organization is buying them for people all over the country.READ»
We are reaching an historical inflection point, where our current decisions about energy use and carbon will have major effects on how we live in coming decades. Here are four possible scenarios for what things will be like in 2025.READ»
Concentrated solar power isn’t what you think of when you think of solar power, but it might be the future of how we get energy from the sun. Get excited: It works with a giant field of mirrors and molten salt.READ»
What's the world's best solar panel? A plant. So making solar panels from plants seems like a no-brainer. Today, scientists think they've achieved just that.READ»
After a summer hearing about the death of Solyndra, you couldn't be blamed for not knowing that the solar industry is exploding in this country. And it's not just selling panels, an entire industry is springing up around people ...READ»
What knows best about getting energy from the sun? Flowers. Now, using some inspiration from nature, massive solar power plants can get a little smaller and a lot more efficient.READ»
Much of Africa is lit and powered by polluting and unhealthy kerosene. But plans to leapfrog the country to renewables often come up against the lack of funds to purchase panels. But Eight19 has a model to get solar power into African ...READ»
China's production of lower and lower cost solar panels is destroying the American solar industry (think Solyndra). But instead of trying to artificially stop that decline, we should focus on becoming solar innovators.READ»
From an increased emphasis on local food to generating more power from people's movement, changing how we live and consume resources could take interesting turns in the new year.READ»
At some point in the near future, solar will be cheaper than the power from the grid. At that point, it won't be a do-gooder energy choice, it will be the smart thing to do. New maps pinpoint when that day is coming to your city.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»
It's not a joke. Coconuts--and not much else--are plentiful on the islands of Tokelau. So they're making good with what they have, and converting the entire region to solar and coconut biofuels.READ»
Some people worry that the massive energy draw of a fleet of electric cars will bring down the power system. It might, but there are easy fixes to prevent it from happening and make all of our power cleaner and more efficient.READ»
The planet's atmosphere gets heat from the sun and then traps it. A new breakthrough from MIT lets objects do the same thing, so that we can use the sun to heat things to astronomically high temperatures and then generate power from ...READ»
Instead of installing an expensive motor, former Princeton student (and current Thiel Fellow) Eden Full is making a simple part that expands with heat, automatically moving a panel to its most electricty-generating position.READ»
To get more clean energy, we're going to have to build a lot of stuff. Building all that will create jobs all over the country. Here's some idea of where--with the right investments--we might see employment boom.READ»
It's not the house of the future. More like the house of the near-future. It will be smaller and more energy efficient (but don't worry, you can keep your walk-in closet).READ»
Don't keep your solar user in the dark. Changers--a small solar panel you can use to charge your gadgets--wants to make your energy savings public and competitive.READ»
You probably can't remember how many different ways you use energy during an average day, but billions of people can't take energy use for granted because they don't have access to any. Hugh Whalan is out to change that.READ»
