In the United States, residential and commercial buildings account for nearly 40 percent of all energy consumption. About 40 percent of that energy use is from heating, [...]
BP and Chevron have invested in Eavor Technologies Inc., an innovative technology company that (finally) may help drive the future of geothermal energy. The funds will be [...]
Climate goals expand impact of MIT waste-processing spinoff that capitalizes on a process called plasma gasification. by Kathryn M. O’Neill | MIT Energy Initiative [...]
Bertrand Piccard makes no apologies for being an aviation enthusiast, and believes that despite its current woes the industry has been made a scapegoat for carbon emissions, [...]
A few years ago we described a heat exchange application that uses the warm water in the Paris sewer system to heat buildings above. Now, researchers at EPFL in Switzerland [...]
Besides producing massive amounts of CO2, concrete production also uses large amounts of water contaminated with concrete. Managing the slurry or concrete wash water is [...]
Lithium-air, or lithium-oxygen, batteries have been hailed as the ‘ultimate’ battery due to their theoretical energy density, which is ten times that of the [...]