Image: ACS, Yang et al. Theoretical Energy Density: 1550 Wh/KG ! A few months ago I wrote about a battery breakthrough related to silicon nanowire anodes . The researchers said that it showed great promise, but that one of the main challenges to its... 

Image: ACS, Yang et al. Theoretical Energy Density: 1550 Wh/KG ! A few months ago I wrote about a battery breakthrough related to silicon nanowire anodes . The researchers said that it showed great promise, but that one of the main challenges to its... 

Photo via A Green Living That’s the topic of an ongoing online debate over at the Economist.com . In one corner, green jobs advocate Van Jones , who argues that governments should engage in the active practice of creating green jobs, by, for example,... 

Photo via F eatheredTar According to new research from IDC Energy Insights, utilities are not even remotely ready for the smart grid particularly when it comes to one vital piece of the puzzle - customer interaction. So far, utilities have been this... 

photo via flickr Coal activist Ted Nace today published a must-read post in Grist on the importance of taking on coal via a variety of strategies, effectively coming at the country’s Number 1 contributor to climate change from every angle possible.... 

Photo via Whatson The so-called “conventional wisdom” has been pretty unremitting in deeming any sort of comprehensive energy reform legislation dead in the water this year. But that’s still not looking to be the case –some rather... 

photo via flickr The great hope of those who want coal to remain at the center of our energy mix–CCS–received special attention this week from Mike Morris, head of American Electric Power, the nation’s largest utility. At a conference... 

Image: Angewandte Chemie, Wiley Sunlight + Water = Hydrogen Gas Scientists at the University of East Anglia, led by Dr. Thomas Nann, report a breakthrough in the production of hydrogen from water using the energy of sunlight. Amidst all the hype about... 

A building under renovation in Tel Aviv - Jaffa. Photo by Jesse Fox. Israel’s planning system is inefficient, and long overdue for a reform - on this, almost everyone agrees. What kind of reform? On this there is no consensus, but plenty of ideas... 

Photo: SAGE Electrochromics SAGE Electrochromics Gets $100+ Million Another day, another announcement by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE). Yesterday, it was $100 million in funding for clean tech energy projects via ARPA-E, and today it’s $72...