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Virginia Tech flexible solar panel goes where silicon can’t
In the very near future, recycling light energy may be easier than recycling any other item in your house. Led by Shashank Priya, a team of mechanical and materials engineers and chemists at Virginia Tech, including post-doctoral researchers Xiaojia Zheng
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All Canadian federal government buildings to go 100% green by 2025
The Canadian federal government has pledged to run all its operations on renewable energy by 2025, according to environment minister Catherine McKenna. McKenna made the announcement at the Canadian Wind Energy Association yesterday but revealed very little else on how
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From dirty coal to solar farm
One of the worst polluters in New England, the Mount Tom Power Station in Holyoke, Massachusetts, is making the switch from coal to solar. The plant’s owner, Paris-based Engie, shuttered the coal-powered generating plant in 2014 and broke ground this
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Iea sees broad transformations in the global energy landscape
As a result of major transformations in the global energy system that take place over the next decades, renewables and natural gas are the big winners in the race to meet energy demand growth until 2040, according to the latest
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World’s largest solar project would generate electricity 24 hours a day, power 1 million U.S. homes
The race to build the world’s largest solar power plant is heating up. California-based energy company SolarReserve announced plans for a massive concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in Nevada that claims to be the largest of its kind once built.
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The immense opportunities to achieve a net-zero emissions global economy
“Investing into investment” for sustainable infrastructures is the most urgent priority for the financial, political and climate sectors – said Felipe Calderón, former President of Mexico and Chair of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, in a Climate
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Global fossil fuel subsidies outpace renewable support
G20 spends $444bn a year to subsidise fossil fuel production Research discovered that G20 country governments’ support to fossil fuel production marries bad economics with potentially disastrous consequences for climate change. In effect, governments are propping up the production of
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Wind could supply fifth of world electricity by 2030
Wind power could supply as much as 20 percent of the world’s total electricity by 2030 due to dramatic cost reductions and pledges to curb climate change, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) said in a report released in Beijing
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Nano-spike catalysts convert carbon dioxide directly into ethanol
In a new twist to waste-to-fuel technology, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon and copper to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol. Their
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Which countries are causing global warming and which are most vulnerable to the effects
The effects of climate change are pretty hard to miss no matter where you live, but some countries are going to feel the brunt of the impact more than others. The following infographic was created by George Washington University‘s grad
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