How does a solar panel system really work? A guide for the layman and beginner.

This article from CNN about a MIT professor working on thin-film solar curtains has all kinds of food for thought on an important issue: how solar will integrate with our existing conceptions of what a home looks and feels.
When you hear “solar curtains,” the idea that comes to mind are pretty basic - the same [...]

It seems like it was only yesterday that politicians, coal executives and even some environmentalists had agreed on the benefits of clean coal technology. Among other duties, it takes the polluting carbon dioxide byproducts of coal-fired power stations and sequesters it deep underground, where its greenhouse gases cannot enter the atmosphere. (For a good overview, [...]

Remember wind energy in 1975? No? Well, read this National Geographic article and refresh your memory.

Read this press release and see if you don’t start humming the Jetsons theme song to yourself: Future Transportation: Powered by Electricity”. Pretty standard title, right? You’re thinking, Of course the future will be powered by electricity. What kind might this piece focus on–some new kind of solar, holographic maybe? No? How about…MAGNET POWER!