energy

Kinetic Energy To The Rescue?

Harnessing energy from movement — kinetic energy — is promising as one way to keep our carbon footprints down….

Can we look to history and lean on innovation once again to pull ourselves out of the climate and environmental hole we find ourselves in?

Limited battery storage capacity remains a bottleneck to the widespread application of solar and wind power.

A range of federal & state programs can help defray the costs of upgrading the energy efficiency of your home.

A new wind farm at Kitty Hawk, site of the Wright Brothers’ first flight, symbolizes the dawn of a new era in renewable energy.

Making energy efficiency upgrades to your home now will lower monthly bills moving forward & increase resale value when it’s time to sell.

Lithium, a central element in batteries nowadays, is key to powering every aspect of our life — but is it killing the earth?

A lifelong environmentalist weighs the pros and cons of whether we should be building more nuclear power plants…

Let It Shine is a fully revised and expanded edition of A Golden Thread, John Perlin’s classic history of solar technology…

Gravity energy storage could replace batteries as a way to hold onto energy & dole it out as needed to supplement intermittent renewables.