The Obama administration says that SunShot, the R&D program to bring down the cost of solar-generated electricity to where it’s competitive with conventionally sourced electricity, is 60 percent of ...

It’s not often that the academic world gets together to celebrate a toilet. Today, however, it’s fair to say there will be a few professors and students willing to kiss the porcelain god. Last summer, ...

If you drive an electric vehicle in Illinois, you’re going to get a little shock when it comes time for your annual vehicle registration. Last weekend, the Illinois National Assembly approved raising ...

If these UCLA researchers are right – and we might find out pretty soon – energy storage could be in for a big change. Richard Kaner and his graduate student Maher El-Kady have been trumpeting ...

Everyone has seen them, those tiny dark spots that spring up around the bathtub, on window sills, and on shower curtains. Mold. Mold is a type of fungus that loves to grow in dark damp places and can ...

Electrified vehicles are more and more on the minds of automakers, particularly in Germany, as we observed from the recent Frankfurt Auto Show a slew of announcements on concept and production models.

How dangerous is the development, operation and maintenance of the infrastructure for energy production from wind, with its massive equipment, the machinery that it takes to install towers and ...

ScottishPower Renewables has just completed an initial testing period for its 1-megawatt (MW) tidal power project in the Orkney isles, located off the northern tip of Scotland. The underwater turbine ...

A massive blade broke from a Siemens wind turbine this week – and it’s not the first time this has happened. The latest incident, which took place at Pattern Energy’s Ocotillo wind power plant in ...

To help you find the best solar spot lights, we’ve done the grunt work for you, looking at the dozens of lights available and picking our top five favorites. When narrowing down our picks, we focused ...

Showers can be invigorating, relaxing, and cleansing amongst other things. Unfortunately, they can also be expensive. Showers make up approximately 20 percent of the average household water usage. A ...

We all know about ways to build greener more energy-efficient buildings, but what about the other side of this coin? Is there such a thing as “green demolition”? Many of today’s small buildings are ...