A major new petroleum industry campaign is afoot to shoot down clean energy regulations in all three West Coast states.
Earth to BrightSource: the media will never get Ivanpah right
A new development in Ivanpah’s financing gave Fox another opportunity to pounce, BrightSource has responded with a missive to set the record straight.
Nifty little nano-battery is the mighty mite of energy storage
Researchers have come up with an elegantly simple nanoscale battery concept that they’re describing as the “ultimate miniaturization of energy storage.”
The $8bln, 2,100MW wind energy project with storage
The key to $8 billion California wind energy project would be a massive compressed air energy storage system using salt caverns in Utah.
$10 bet leads to new synthetic graphene
Penn State professor Thomas E. Mallouk is $10 richer and the world is one step closer to realizing the dream of mass-producing high grade synthetic grapheme
Saudi Arabia chooses solar to jump on diesel-killer bandwagon
Saudi Arabia accelerates efforts to deploy solar and reduce its reliance on expensive diesel – another sign of global push to renewables.
Australian breakthrough could be boost for hydrogen fuel cells
A research team from Australia has developed a new way to use solar energy for producing hydrogen, potentially leading to lower costs.
Sodium-β batteries could transform wind and solar into baseload generators
Sodium-β batteries are widely perceived to be the key to advanced energy storage for utility scale wind and solar energy power.
Stanford foresees $25,000, 300-mile EV battery range with new honeycomb battery
Students have figured out how to stabilize the lithium in a lithium-ion battery, and that could help bring the typical EV down to mainstream affordability.
The “hidden cost” of wind power – less than conventional power plants
The “hidden cost” for conventional power plants in Texas is 17 times more than wind. So…what does the fossil fuel industry have to say about that?
