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The homes of wealthy Americans generate about 25% more greenhouse gases than residences in lower-income neighborhoods, says the University of Michigan. In the nation’s most affluent suburbs, those emissions can be as much as...
Swiss start-up hiLyte has developed a clean and affordable battery that can help people in rural Sub-Saharan Africa light their homes and charge their cell phones. hiLyte, a start-up founded by two graduates of...
Solstice makes community solar projects more accessible for people unable to invest in rooftop panels. Rooftop solar panels are a great way for people to invest in renewable energy while saving money on electricity....
Swiss startup Growcer AG is currently building an automated urban vertical farm. Robots sow, water and fertilize the vegetables, which are then harvested by humans. The concept promises to drastically reduce carbon emissions, water...
UN-backed report has found that renewable energy investments over the past decade quadrupled renewable capacity and avoided 2 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions. Solar energy led the way. Global investment in new renewable energy...
Rust is a common blight on infrastructure. However, when combined with salt water, it can generate electricity, as new research shows. Thin films of rust, or iron oxide, can generate electricity when saltwater flows...
Refrigerators use more electricity than most other household devices. Now researchers believe they might have discovered how to make the appliances more energy efficient. Writing in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, the...
Want to save a life? Turn off a light. A new University of Wisconsin study found that conserving electricity alleviates air pollution, saving lives and money. That might not seem like news. But the...
An international team of researchers have designed a device that converts energy from Wi-Fi signals into electricity. Their ‘rectenna’ could one day power wearable electronics, medical devices and sensors for the Internet of Things...
Australian public water utility Melbourne Water is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to cut electricity costs in its water treatment plants. Efficiency is generally seen as a key marker of a smart city,...
Smart energy technologies such as intelligent electricity meters, smart home networking applications and smart home solutions not only promise to reduce your own power requirements. They also have the potential to make electricity generation...
The inefficiency of power conversion can be reduced thanks to a new design from MIT researchers. This could dramatically cut energy waste in electric vehicles, data centers, and the power grid. Power electronics, which...
A tiny Greek island nestled between Kos and Rhodes will become the first island in the Mediterranean to be powered by wind and solar energy alone, with zero carbon emissions. For many vacationers, the...
Solar power is becoming the world’s cheapest form of new electricity, recent data has revealed. In emerging markets, new solar projects are cheaper to build than similar projects with wind energy. Solar power is...
The British government has said that it will force the last coal power plant to close by 2025. Environmental campaigners want to see the cut-off date brought forward. The British government released a plan...
Education centres inside the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan are set to get electricity and internet thanks to an innovative solar power project that provides reliable energy in off-grid areas worldwide. Around 25,000 school-aged...
African countries south of the Sahara are losing the energy supply race. As a recently published report explains, it could end up the only region in the world in which the number of people...
A recent study shows that electric vehicles emit significantly less heat than conventional ones. That difference could mitigate the urban heat island effect in big cities like Beijing. There is an increasingly hot debate...
Under a new law approved last Thursday by the French parliament, all new commercial zone buildings must be either partially covered in plants or solar panels. While the new environmental legislation applies to all...
Researchers at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) teamed up with global development organisation Oxfam to invent a urinal that can generate electricity. The goal is to bring the technology to...
