Articles tagged "energy"

Covering coal plants in living, creeping surfaces is a pretty good idea. But for the opposite reason the designers intend.

But scientists have been producing diesel-pooping bacteria for over five years.

So what about the US? It remained in second place.

In the Gulf, it's three years later, and the oil is still coming. So is the sickness, the dead sea life, and the bad news for the economy.

Striking at India for attempting to do the very same thing is incredibly short sighted, serving no one's long term interests.

McDaniel has already told Exxon to hand over all documents from its internal investigation, as well as all maintenance and inspection reports on the pipeline.

How a few rooftop solar panels are unraveling a 100 year-old industry.

Pipe Trouble is an arcade puzzle game in which you're tasked with building a gas pipeline without hurting the environment too badly -- and while dealing with a group of ecoterrorists who want to bomb it

At the rate installations are going, the energy and carbon debt incurred in making all the solar photovoltaics made to date could be paid off as soon as 2015.

Iran is still hell-bent for nuclear, despite being one of the most earthquake-prone nations on the planet.

We're going to clean up the oil spill but there is no oil spill, says Exxon, the oil giant that is also managing the no-fly zone above the accident site.

Coal will kill you a million times over before nuclear even sits down at the table.

This is such a radically different portraiture of Republicans than the one you get on the TeeVee.

Hundreds of thousands of gallons of gushing crude forced Arkansas homeowners to head for the hills.

The environmental and health benefits of ditching coal are clear, but it's also important to note that there's quite likely an economic case to be made as well.

The future is coming, whether Donald Trump is ready for it or not.

It's rather frustrating to see China take the lead using research the US pioneered.

When it comes to carbon-free nuclear, China is positioning itself to be a world leader, and to get paid while doing it.

Now that it has proved oil is the best bet by spilling it all over the place, BP is shutting down its solar power operations for good.

The crappy economy forced Americans to stop caring about the environment, but we have since done little about either.

There's no way to make coal truly clean.

“As much as I hate them, a part of me appreciates the blackouts,” a friend who grew up in an impoverished village southwest of Sanaa once told me. “[The saboteurs] show people in Sanaa how the rest of Yemen lives.”

Oil spills and nuclear meltdowns hog the spotlight when we're talking energy disasters, but let's not forget about black old coal here.