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02/14/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

How to determine whether solar is a good investment for your home site

Solar energy is often touted as the energy source of tomorrow. We’ve been told that it’s clean, it’s safe, it’s renewable. These are all good reasons to consider investing in solar energy, especially if you have aspirations of living off the grid. But actually doing so is a whole other matter that needs a lot […]

01/04/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Cool multi-use invention: Street lamp powered by dog poop has proven to be a successful green energy and waste management combo in the U.K.

From littering walkways and streets to illuminating them, dog poop may soon be fueling streetlamps across the United Kingdom. That’s already happening in Malvern Hills, an iconic landscape in England and home of the United Kingdom’s first dog poop-powered street lamp. The brainchild of Brian Harper, a member of the environmental group Transition Malvern Hills, […]

11/30/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

How green is the technology that makes your green energy? Researchers are working to develop sustainable ways to source the raw materials

The growing demand for green technologies such as electric vehicles and wind turbines has called for a heavy price. The need for rare earth minerals in their production processes is all but causing great harm to the environment and placing unnecessary pressure upon poor communities. Yet a team of researchers from the Camborne School of […]

08/24/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Plasma fuel breakthrough means unlimited fusion energy is now closer than ever

Nuclear fusion has long been eyed as a potential source for limitless clean energy, yet the complexity behind its process made it unfeasible for some time. However, this may all change soon. A team of researchers hailing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found a way to bring us one step closer to […]

08/15/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Vertical-axis wind turbines potential sources of cheaper electricity in urban and suburban areas, researchers discover

The average onshore wind turbine is a good source of energy, but the same can’t be said of their smaller cousins. To some, the smaller, cylindrical wind turbines are too inefficient to be of any real use. To others, that need not be the case. Lam Nguyen and Meredith Metzger, both mechanical engineers from the […]

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