As Half the U.S. Contemplates Hydraulic Fracturing, First Liquefied Natural...
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday approved the first large-scale liquefied natural gas export terminal in the lower 48 states despite record falling gas prices. Shipping from the $10...
View ArticleA Closer Look at Cities As An Energy Solution
Hubert Klumpner, co-founder of the Urban Think Tank in Zurich, Switzerland and Sao Paulo, Brazil, discusses the challenge and promise of cities in addressing global resource stresses, at the Powering...
View ArticleLooking to Nature for Energy Solutions
Bryony Schwan, co-founder and Executive Director of The Biomimicry Institute, discusses the solutions embedded in nature that could help address global food, water and energy issues. She appeared at...
View ArticleValencia: Supercar Material for Super-Efficiency
Students from Spain’s La Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) do some final testing on “Urban Spirit,” the car they hope will help test new possibilities for fuel efficiency in Shell Eco-marathon...
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Stirling Engine: External Combustion Efficiency
One of the most unusual looking cars at this year’s Shell Eco-marathon Europe was testing out one of the oldest concepts for harnessing energy for motion: the Stirling heat engine. Team Schluckspecht...
View ArticleFossil-Fuel Subsidies: Why We Crunched Numbers
Something crucial was missing from the first-ever global inventory of tax breaks for oil companies and other fossil-fuel subsidies when the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...
View ArticleWireless Power Can’t Yet Replace Utility Poles, But Could Offer More Options...
On the heels of the violent storm system that felled enough overhead wires to disrupt electricity for 4.3 million utility customers on the U.S. East Coast, new research suggests that the technology...
View ArticleA123 Deal Ignites Debate Over China, Energy
News that China’s largest auto parts maker is seeking a controlling stake in one of the most heralded U.S. green technology companies, A123 Systems, has quickly ignited into a debate on national...
View ArticleWhy the U.S. Should Save MiaSolé: Investing In Our Clean Tech Future
As China selects its new leadership this week, jobs, energy, and international relations will be very much on the minds of the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. Over the past decade China has...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy, Other Disasters Focus Attention on Climate Change. How to...
One of the great frustrations to the climate science and environmental stewardship research community is that the steady advance of solid scientific consensus about the risks of climate change warrants...
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St. Paul’s School Stresses Sharing
Why does this team’s high-efficiency car look like a taxi? Ride-sharing is the idea that students at St. Paul’s School in Covington, Louisiana wanted to drive home with the vehicle they built for Shell...
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Louisiana Tech Mixes Street Legal With Efficiency
Louisiana Tech University has been a perennial winner at Shell Eco-marathon Americas, with an emphasis on slipping aerodynamic features into sleekly designed cars that look like they could be driving...
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Efficient Light Bulb Study Generates Heated Debate
Photo by p. Gordon/Creative Commons license, Flickr When we published a story this week on a study that showed the negative consequences of environmental messaging on light bulbs, we suspected the...
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Story of A Tweet: The Vitally Important Bully Pulpit for Protecting the Planet
U.S. Department of State photo We generally complain that action on climate change is mired in polarized partisan politics and thus nothing can be done. True to an extent, but let’s hold on a bit. In...
View ArticleKosovo is a Chance for World Bank, Obama to Show Global Leadership on Climate...
Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s now famous comment, “Never let a serious crisis to go to waste,” could not have been more true of Hurricane Sandy, which was a harbinger of the costly...
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In British Columbia, Mulling the Role of Natural Gas in a Sustainable Energy...
British Columbia finds itself at the forefront of the global debate on natural gas, and its role in the future of energy. Some 15 energy company consortiums are vying to build massive export terminals...
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Three “Next Steps” for California Climate Action
California enacted its Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32) in 2006. Since then, an entire network of interacting, mutually-reinforcing legislation has evolved in the state, historic in how the...
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Big Energy Question: Clearing the Air? Challenges and Opportunities in India
NEW DELHI–A cross-section of representatives from the energy sector in India gathered on December 9, 2014, to discuss a critical conundrum faced by the giant South Asia nation: How to deliver on the...
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