1235 Results From "renewable energy"

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Renewable Energy

New Report Predicts Renewable Energy Will be Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels by 2020

Renewable energy could be produced with nuclear fusion.
Renewable Energy

ITER Nuclear Reactor May Be The “Holy Grail” of Limitless Renewable Energy

Oil Will Be Used Less for Fuel, More for Plastics and Fertilizers
Energy

Oil Will Be Used Less for Fuel, More for Plastics and Fertilizers

Clean coal doesn't exist, but burning it in as clean a way as possible could give us more time to adopt clean, renewable energy around the world.
Climate Change

Tweaking Coal Plant Emissions Could Slow Down Climate Change

A startup says it's building a futuristic facility that'll suck as much CO2 out of the atmosphere of every year as 40 million trees.
Renewable Energy

New Facility Aims to Capture 40 Million Trees’ Worth of CO2 Every Year

Harvard's RoboBee X-Wing takes the RoboBee to the next level by sporting solar cells and an extra pair of wings for more stable flight.
Robotics

This Minuscule Robotic Bee Only Uses Solar Energy to Fly

New computer simulations upend our understanding of how distant space rocks called trans-Neptunian objects formed during the solar system's earliest days.
Off-World

Space Rocks Near Neptune Could Reveal the Solar System’s Origins

Researchers created bionic mushrooms that could keep electricity-generating cyanobacteria alive longer than other surfaces.
Energy

We Can Now Generate Electricity From “Bionic Mushrooms”

A group of scientists want to declare the greater expanses of the solar system as official "space wilderness" to protect celestial bodies from space mining.
Space

Scientists: We Need to Protect the Solar System from Space Mining

Physicists are using mayonnaise to study the properties of molten metal being used to create fusion reactions in the laboratory setting.
Nuclear Fusion

This Physicist Is Using Mayonnaise to Study Nuclear Fusion

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested that "thousands of solar reflector satellites" could be used to warm up the surface of Mars.
Mars

Elon Musk: “Thousands of Solar Reflector Satellites” Could Warm Up Mars

A 1.5-meter device called a Z-pinch generated nuclear fusion, but not for long enough to be useful. Still, it shows that small-scale fusion is possible.
Nuclear Fusion

Scientists Generated Nuclear Fusion With a Tabletop Device

Next year, NASA will launch a small spacecraft that will carry yeast cells into orbit around the Sun. Scientists hope to study how radiation affects DNA.
NASA

NASA Is About to Send the First Living Organisms Into Solar Orbit

Wind Farms Might Heat up the Planet, After All
Wind

Wind Farms Might Heat up the Planet, After All

The European Union just proposed a new set of strategies to become carbon neutral by 2050. But that might not be soon enough.
Climate Change

The EU Just Announced a Plan To Go Carbon Neutral

The World’s First Digital Teacher Just Debuted in New Zealand
Artificial Intelligence

The World’s First Digital Teacher Just Debuted in New Zealand

A Nobel Prize winning scientist says that high-intensity lasers could one day render nuclear waste harmless in just a few minutes.
Nuclear Fusion

Nobel Prize Winner: Lasers Could Permanently Destroy Nuclear Waste

Rick Perry authorized six separate deals made by U.S. companies that sold nuclear energy tech to Saudi Arabia, then kept the dealings secret.
Nuclear Fusion

America Secretly Sold Nuclear Tech to Saudi Arabia

A new design for artificial leaves could make it possible to finally bring the technology out of the lab and into the "real world."
Renewable Energy

New Artificial Leaf Design Could Absorb Far More CO2

A tiny 11 pound solar sail spacecraft is finally launching into space on top of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket this summer.
SpaceX

SpaceX is About to Launch a Solar Sail Inspired by Carl Sagan