Alternative Energy Technology

Caltech engineers have constructed a new kind of microchip that can learn to heal its own information pathways

Hugo Chavez's death may have an impact on the global oil market--and thus on the global climate as well. David Biello reports

The new bulb-shaped set of light-emitting diodes only costs less than $20

Amid rising oil and gas production, can the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy get the U.S. to develop alternative, cleaner energy solutions?

Water demands continue to inch up year after year even as climate change queers supply. Can civilization cope? David Biello reports

A new report from Citigroup argues that solar panel installations will surpass expectations as its cost falls below that of the most expensive gas-fired power plants

A priest strikes sparks among faithful using climate change

The United Nations' commitment to sustainable energy access could help prevent excess greenhouse gas emissions

Forgotten and filed away decades ago, millions of documents on geothermal research are now helping scientists make harvesting Earth’s energy affordable

Machine-to-machine communication offers an opportunity to make the modern world more energy efficient. David Biello reports

Can the innovative car company survive long enough to profit from a growing market for electric vehicles?

The first biofuel plants are ready to make ethanol from the nonfood part of corn, but such cellulosic ethanol may falter if subsidies end