BY BROOKLYN PINHEIRO Immediately after the category 4 hurricane whipped out power on the island of Puerto Rico on September 20th Tesla stepped in to help. Originally the company sent Powerwall battery systems that can be paired with the country’s…
This is the Titanic of turbines and it will blow you away
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS Wind power isn’t quite the realm of dinky pinwheels and spindly turbines anymore. At its core, wind turbines run off a deceptively simple plan that produces clean and environmentally friendly energy from the breeze. Wind power…
Hawaii wants 100 per cent renewable transportation by 2045
Header Image © Edmund Garman Hawaii wants all of its ground transportation to fuel up using renewable energy by 2045. It’s a big step, but Hawaii is already showing commitments to similar policies. It already has some of the most aggressive renewable…
The Netherlands now has the world’s first completely wind powered trains
BY: RHIANN MOORE As of January 1, 2017, 600,000 daily commuters in the Netherlands have been traveling in complete carbon neutrality. This is because the Dutch NS trains now run on 1.2 billion kilowatt-hours of wind energy as a result…
Really chill ways to do your part for the planet in 2017
BY RHIANN MOORE Although little gestures often seem futile when people in power can’t be bothered to do their part, they can actually make a huge difference in maintaining the environment and lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Here are some basic…
The Solar Revolution is coming – Here’s what you need to know
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS Little Orphan Annie famously opined that the sun would come out tomorrow – and now the age of the solar panel has finally dawned. In the coming years, expect to see more photovoltaic panel farms, more…
France gives the middle finger to climate change by shutting down all of its coal power plants by 2023
BY: JESSICA BEUKER It’s that time of year again; the annual climate gathering run by the UN saw experts, lawmakers and organizations gathering in Morocco this week to discuss the current state of the planet, and the current uphill battle…
Henry Ford built a plastic car in 1941 that was stronger than steel (VIDEO)
(Source: © John Lloyd/Flickr/Licence) With electric cars just beginning to become practical, one has to imagine where we’d be if we had started thinking greener with our automobiles over 70 years ago. All the decades we could have spent dealing with…
India is handing out LED lights to its residents to save the country billions in energy costs
BY: SWIKAR OLI India’s Ministry of Power has announced a major plan to switch 20 million light bulbs to LED, which will save the country $890 billion a year. Switching to the new bulbs costs less than half of what…
Landfills are turning trash into energy and cleaning the environment
BY: SWIKAR OLI Methane has always had a bad rap. Often associated with trash or manure, and dreaded by environmentalists for trapping 25 times more heat per pound in the atmosphere than CO2, it could use a second introduction. With…
Stanford just drafted the perfect plan to get America running on 100% renewable energy by 2050
BY: TYLER FYFE A new study by Mark Z. Jacobson of Stanford University in collaboration with U.C. Berkeley is the first guidebook for all 50 states to run on 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050. If progressive politicians at…
The windows of your house could soon be made of solar panels
BY: DANIEL KORN One of the biggest hurdles in the way of the average citizen getting on board with solar power is the way they look. It’s not hard to understand why—rectangular panels covering the top of your roof is…
These wind turbines disguised as trees could populate city streets.
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS Jerome Michaud-Lariviere has invented The Wind Tree, a windmill that looks like a tree. Made of metal, it has 72 fake leaves that are actually turbines, and looks like a piece of art. The most significant part:…
Zero-point energy generators create free unlimited energy without fuel
Zero-point energy is the lowest form of energy in a physical mechanical system, remaining constant when all other energy is absent. This combats previous definitions of the vacuum, as space devoid of matter, re-defining the black space of the universe…
This Ocean Energy Turbine Could Take The Whip From The Hands Of The Fossil Fuel Industry
BY: DAN BOIVIN We’ve all heard it before, a new technology comes along and promises to shift the balance of power in the world of energy, disrupting the “business as usual practices” we are all too familiar with. But then,…
Auras: Maybe We Can All Feel Them And They Are Trying To Tell Us Something
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS This has probably happened at least once in your life: you meet someone for the first time and take an instant dislike to their presence. Or you get a bad feeling from a room you’ve just walked…
What does life without work look like? Get ready for the post-labour economy
BY: JESSICA BURDE In the distant future, no one needs to work. Energy is available wherever people can set up a solar panel, windmill, or hydro-turbine. A.I. Wish units, distant descendants of today’s 3D printers, are capable of producing anything…