Alternative Energy Technology

The system could easily take a home off the power grid, especially with the use of many solar panels, Musk said

In June, Professor Mildred Dresselhaus will formally receive the 2015 IEEE Medal of Honor for her leadership and contributions across many fields of science and engineering. She is the first woman to receive the organisation’s highest honor since its inception in 1917.

The new results from the nationally representative UT Energy Poll are out today, highlighting the way so many energy issues have become politicized.

Last month, Senator Ted Cruz matter-of-factly told an interviewer that he just happened to glance at a four-decade-old article from Newsweek that very morning.

Wind, solar and other forms of renewable energy could be the fastest growing power sources over the next few decades

Scientific American's David Biello hosts a new episode of the TV series Beyond the Light Switch, focusing on the means to and effects of a more electricity-powered country. Steve Mirsky reports

 

New homes wired with the latest smart gadgets cluster together around shared park spaces. Blue-black panels that transform sunshine into electricity grace a majority of roofs.

Renewable energy, spurred by a crisis in climate, may usurp fossil fuels by mid-century

Entrepreneurs aim to bring electricity to the world's energy poor without fossil fuels

Most companies and analysts think that Americans will find it hard to cut ties with the power grid

There's been no shortage recently of big companies going big on solar, nor of middlemen trying to pave the way for bulk buying of solar power, but when the beast that is national procurement gets involved, the ante is upped.

Last week, Stanford University researchers unveiled a new aluminum-ion battery chemistry with the unique ability to charge or discharge in less than a minute.