Energy


Canadian Company Turns Air into Fuel in Climate Change Fight

Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: July 5, 2016 Carbon Engineering’s carbon capture plant in Squamish. Carbon Engineering It’s capturing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere for fuel that planes and trucks could one day use. By Dominique Mosbergen In an...

Sweden Opens World’s First Electric Highway

Source: ecowatch.com Published: June 23, 2016 Electric-powered trucks are expected to cut 80 to 90 percent of fossil fuel emissions in Sweden. Katie Pohlman Sweden opened a stretch of electric highway, becoming the first country to test electric power for heavy...

This Machine Turns Your Food Waste into Gas for Cooking

Source: huffpost.com Published: June 13, 2016 HomeBiogas By Elyse Wanshel Talk about cooking with gas. HomeBiogas, based in Beit Yanai, Israel, is a biogas system that turns food and organic waste into clean cooking gas, and its byproduct can be used as liquid plant...

Apple Now Operates on 93% Renewable Energy Worldwide

Source: greentechmedia.com Published: March 22, 2016 The electronics giant also has a nifty new recycling robot. Julia Pyper On Monday, Apple unveiled the highly anticipated iPhone SE and the new iPad Pro. Equally exciting for some, the electronics giant announced...

Can We Recycle Light? And Can It Help Us Fight Global Warming?

Source: pri.org Published: January 31, 2016 A proof-of-concept device built by MIT researchers demonstrates the principle of a two-stage process to make incandescent bulbs more efficient. This device already achieves efficiency comparable to some compact fluorescent...