BY: RHIANN MOORE Not only do kites power family fun times, as of now they can also harness energy and create power. UK-based company Kite Power Solutions has created a system operated in a pumping cycle of two reciprocating phases…
Is it possible to power a country purely on renewable energy?
Scotland is a small country in the north of Europe with dreams of generating 100% of its gross annual electricity consumption from renewable energy by 2020. It may seem like an impossible ambition for any country to provide electricity in this…
A solar airplane circling around the world shows us flying without emissions is possible
BY: CAROLINE ROLF With the wingspan of a Boeing 747 but weighing only as much as an SUV, the Solar Impulse 2 glides past the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco marking an incredible achievement. The experimental plane continues its…
This incredible new form of renewable energy is like your childhood potato-clock on steroids
BY: ALEX BROWN The old potato-clock trick has more or less become a viable form of renewable energy. A company named Plant-e is heading the initiative, which introduces it as alternative to wind, hydro and solar power. But unlike the…
Solar-powered balloons are overcoming the biggest obstacle to a solar energy revolution
BY: SWIKAR OLI A French researcher has a novel idea to improve the efficiency of solar panels by placing them atop hot air balloons and letting them fly. The idea was born because solar power, the probable successor to coal…
This giant machine sucks CO2 from the atmosphere and recycles it back into gasoline
A Calgary-based company is currently working on a project that could suck massive quantities of C02 emissions right from the air. A fitting location for a company that wants to make carbon emissions obsolete. The prototype machine is currently at…
How Alex Honnold lives out of a solar powered van with a kitchen and storage space (Video)
BY: ROB HOFFMAN In the rock-climbing world, Alex Honnold has rockstar status from countless free-solo ascents of American landmark walls, including Half Dome, El Capitan and the Castleton Tower. This is to say, he’s climbed thousands of metres of vertical…
Good news: Austria’s largest state just reached 100% renewable energy status
BY: ZOE MELNYK Austria’s lower and largest state recently entered the world’s green energy game by becoming 100 per cent reliant on renewable energy sources. With the Danube River coming down from the country’s large mountain chain, flowing violently through…
New, paper-thin solar cells could bring electricity to 1.3 billion people in developing countries
BY: DANIKA MOIR By the end of the 1970s, it cost $40 for one watt of solar energy. By 2013, the price was drastically decreased to just $0.74 per watt. For those citizens in developing countries who wish to have…
A 9th grader developed a $12 machine that produces renewable energy from ocean currents
BY: EDITORS Oceans cover over 70 percent of the earth’s surface. So when 15-year-old Hannah Herbst learned that her pen pal from Ethiopia was deprived of basic energy supply, she started thinking. If the ocean had the power to capsize…
Sweden makes moves to completely discontinue fossil fuel use and run entirely off renewables
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Sweden just released its 2016 budget, which is likely to break a few hearts in the oil sector. The budget, which was made public a few weeks back, reveals plans to spend an additional $546 million (US)…
Aspen, Colorado, just became the third American city to run on 100% renewable energy
BY: SWIKAR OLI Sustainable energy, that is power generated from non-exhaustible resources such as wind, hydro or solar, has always seemed a little power-weak and a bit too rooted in science-fiction to truly satisfy our energy-hungry needs, but recent stories show…
Volkswagen just re-released everyone’s favourite hippy-van…but now it’s electric.
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Rumours have begun to circulate about the re-emergence of the iconic VW hippy-van, a beloved road-trip staple and unparalleled adventure machine. Board member, Dr. Heinz-Jakob Neusser spilled the beans at the recent New York Auto Show that…
These amazing tents can collect water, fold up and harvest energy from the sun
BY: CONNOR BRIAN Extreme challenges await for environmental migrants as a direct result of climate change. The United Nations estimates that by 2050 the earth will have to come face to face with 200 million environmental refugees. Families will lose…
The ‘Solar Classroom in a Box’ is addressing the education shortage in Kenya
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ A classroom in a box fitted with everything from solar panels to computers is becoming the future of education in impoverished countries. Since not attending school has become a sense of normality for children in countries such…
All Dutch trains will run on wind energy by 2018
BY: SWIKAR OLI A contract between two forward-thinking companies will completely redefine sustainability for the people of the Netherlands within the next few years. Netherlands’ railway giant, Nederlandse Spoorwegen, has inked a deal with Eneco, a local energy supplier, to…
California is about to become the world’s leader on climate change
BY: JESSICA BEUKER California is once again leading the world in climate action. Back in January, California Governor Jerry Brown made a promise to pursue a list of climate goals that were among the most ambitious in the world. He…
Here is what a modern Scottish island powered almost entirely by renewable energy looks like
BY: MATTHEW CHIN On the western coast of northern Scotland, just 16 kilometres away from the mainland, lies Eigg Island, an island that runs almost entirely on renewable resources. The nine kilometres long and five kilometres wide island was bought…
An Israeli startup just invented a tree that can charge your electronics with solar power
BY: TJ MOREY Humanity is finally embracing the prospect of harnessing the power of our sun. Solar energy is going through a period of constant program iteration, from giving it for free to poor households in California to using it…
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…