Advanced biofuels backers celebrated the U.S. Senate’s defeat Wednesday of a measure that could have derailed the military’s quest to develop cleaner alternatives to petroleum-based fuels for use in its ships and planes.
BMW, taking another step toward selling electric cars under its i brand sometime later next year, is showcasing its latest concept vehicles at the Los Angeles Auto Show.
The permafrost covering almost a quarter of the northern hemisphere contains twice as much carbon as is currently in the atmosphere, and could significantly amplify global warming should thawing accelerate as expected.
A Silicon Valley start up developing electric vehicle systems technology claims to have built an electric car prototype which can retail for under $10,000 and get rack up a 150 mile driving range.
The European Union (EU) has been forced to freeze the law requiring all flights using EU airports to pay for carbon emissions under the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme.
The all-electric Nissan Leaf is already a vehicle we would consider loaded down with enough electronics to keep you both amused and perhaps distracted while driving at the same time.
Steam can be used to power all sorts of things, and has for centuries. While using steam as a power source is relatively benign for the planet, the process of making steam it quite energy intensive.
GM says it wants to have a half-million cars that run on electricity on the road by 2017. That’s a lot of carbon avoided, but it’s also a lot of what will someday be batteries no longer able to power vehicles.
Concentrations of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, driven by man-made carbon emissions, reached a record high in 2011, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).
Call it the Hurricane Sandy Effect - the superstorm that, in the words of Bill McKibben "rang the doorbell of the richest people on Earth" also hit one of the most densely developed regions of the U.S.
Vision researchers - rather than lighting engineers - say they've made a discovery that could save the US billions of dollars in electricity costs per year.
