Renewables and Efficiency

In the first study to assess the energy impact of smart technology in cars. researchers have put a number on the potential fuel-cost savings alone: $6.2 billion.

Integrated Energy Systems for Multigeneration looks at how measures implemented to limit greenhouse gas emissions must consider smart utilization of available limited resources and employ renewable resources through integrated energy systems and the utilization of waste energy streams. This reference considers the main concepts of thermal and conventional energy systems …

The O-Wind Turbine has taken out the UK£30.000 (US$39.000) first prize in this year'.s James Dyson Awards. This crooked. vented spherical device is designed to hang from skyscraper balconies and generate electricity in the chaotic wind conditions of a high

Alphabet Inc’s Google will invest 4.5 billion Danish crowns ($690 mln) in building a new data center in Fredericia. Denmark. its Danish business said on Tuesday.

Egypt is investing in a processing plant on the Red Sea that could produce some four million tonnes of petro-products a year.

Tandem solar cells made of silicon and metal halide perovskite compounds can convert a particularly large portion of the solar spectrum into electrical energy.

ExxonMobil was heavily criticized over its slower move to embrace the concerns of climate change.

A new climate-modeling study finds that a massive wind and solar installation in the Sahara Desert and neighboring Sahel would increase local temperature. precipitation and vegetation.

Clean energy sources could also account for more than 40% of total generation in the global power mix by this date.

Extracting energy from the wind causes climatic impacts that are small compared to current projections of 21st century warming