green energy
Engineers Devise a Way to Harvest Wind Energy from Trees
It's not much power, but it may be enough to matter.
MIT Tool Gives the Cost of Installing Solar Panels on Any Roof in Your City
How good is your roof for solar power?
Here's Why A Piece of Poop Was Put on Display at the Paris Climate Talks
Poop may be the fuel of the future, and it showed up to the climate negotiations in Paris to stake its claim.
Meet Horizon, the Only Canadian Car in This Year's World Solar-Powered Race
The team estimates it will take their car six days to reach the finish, but in previous years, teams have done it in as little as four.
Virtual Fences Around Wind Farms Could Reduce Bird Deaths
Wind power and avian biodiversity do not have to be mutually exclusive.
Canada’s Having a Green Energy Boom — With or Without PM Harper
Canada’s green energy sector is growing steadily at a clip of 14 percent more jobs and 88 percent more investment in renewable power generation, according to a new report.
Is It Finally Game Over for Ethanol?
The oil price slump plus rising congressional distaste for corn subsidies portends doom.
Charge Your Phone with This 3D-Printed Tree
VTT designs a new energy-harvesting prototype with patterned solar panels for leaves, and a biocomposite trunk.
The First Wave Power Plant Is Officially Operational
Waves are powerful, why not let them power our homes?
Hybrid Laser Tanks Might Help Save the Earth, While Blowing It Up
It's the best of both worlds. Tanks with hybrid electric engines and laser weapons would be good for the environment and lethal in destroying it.
How Cities Can Save the World's Wildlife
We’ve lost half the global vertebrate population from 1970 to 2010. Cities are the key to bringing them back from the brink.