Leave it to the British to figure out a way to shame homeowners into making their houses more energy efficient. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

"Reading this, your body at rest is emitting about 100 watts into the environment. If you're sitting in an open plan office, count the number of surrounding colleagues and you don't need to be a maths genius to appreciate the possibilities of tapping into all that wasted energy. Instead it could provide a renewable energy source to power office lighting or laptops - and it may be possible ... read full post picked by Jetka 2 years ago

The viability of harnessing waves as a lucrative renewable energy source received a boost last week following the announcement that the world's first commercial wave energy project will begin delivering wave-generated energy to the north of Portugal later this month.

also see here picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

I didn't know there were so many ways to try to get energy from waves. There are a couple of videos showing how some of the systems work. picked by JFargo1688 11 months ago

All around the US, homeowners are getting paid by their energy utility to have solar panels installed. That's because power companies have an urgent need for roof space. They're in a race against the clock to replace ever greater portions of the regular energy supply by power sourced from renewables. picked by mattgup 11 months ago

President Barack Obama suggested that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy _ provided it proves by the end of the year that its aspirations are peaceful. picked by Nateebiinature 6 months ago

Astronomers now have their best-ever view of the most extreme energy in the cosmos with a new map combining three month's worth of data, a team of scientists said today. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

ou've undoubtedly seen umpteen reports detailing the myriad health problems associated with obesity, and probably have read how our industrial food system sure supplies calories, but not so many that are actually healthy. Now a new report goes one step further, linking increased energy consumption and people being overweight: picked by sharon22 7 months ago

'Dark energy', which researchers have spent years trying to fathom, isn't necessary to explain our universe after all, according to a new solution to Einstein's theory of general relativity. picked by leopoldogolba 2 years ago

Robin Massink from the Netherlands has built a cool Magnetic Levitation Light Bulb that uses Wireless Energy Transfer to power the bulb. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

Imagine a place awash with more hydrocarbons than a Texan oilman can dream of and where no one has staked a single claim -- all that energy is just going begging. The problem: this massive reserve is at least 1.2 billion kilometers (750 million miles) away from Earth, on a tiny inhospitable world where on a warm day it's minus 179 degrees Celsius (minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit). picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Meet the standard British electrical socket; actually designed with an on/off switch. Many electrical appliances draw electricity even when they’re turned off. Here’s the euro solution: Every electrical socket in my flat here in the UK has an on/off switch. Imagine how much energy we could save if we cut off the electricity to every socket not in use. This is cutting down on wasted ene... read full post picked by pitim 2 years ago

Could vaporising waste provide a solution to two of humanity's biggest environmental problems at once? Companies around the world are trying to turn household waste into clean energy – but critics say "gasification" isn't as green as it sounds... picked by bingo 7 months ago

Scientists don't know what dark energy is, but they observe its tugging effect, which causes the expansion of the universe to accelerate. Now they have seen this mysterious force in some of the largest known features of the cosmos, called superclusters and supervoids. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Plans for a nuclear fusion reactor facility are soon to be underway, with a mission to demonstrate that inertial fusion could be used as a future energy source--to power the whole world. picked by deepcleanfun 2 years ago

The president-elect has selected Nobel prize winner Steven Chu for energy secretary, Lisa Jackson for EPA administrator, Carol Browner as his energy "czar" and Nancy Sutley to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality. picked by TheShizknitt725 12 months ago

Vivace actually creates and then harvests energy from VIV, and it does it all using slow water currents, a previously untapped source of sustainable energy. picked by jLoSsDh 12 months ago

Suns that exploded 9 billion years ago have helped prove that a mysterious force called dark energy was pushing the universe apart even back then, scientists reported on Thursday.

Don't expect any real answers though, we still have no idea what dark energy is. picked by donteatpoop 3 years ago

Some had hoped it might be just an illusion. But it looks like dark energy is real and here to stay, as astronomers "image" the mysterious entity in action. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Unlike other tidal energy generators, the Anaconda is designed to be simple, cheap and robust, and they say 50 of them near a shore can power more than 5,000 homes.

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