Renewable Energy

How much land would it take to power the USA with solar energy? About this much. 2.8 acres per 1GWh. Solar would have to produce about 4 million GWh of electricity annually …

A Dutch company, The Archimedes, has looked to the past in order to improve the future of wind turbines. Their design, based on the math of Archimedes, is a smaller, …

Solar rooftops and Tesla Powerwalls will power the new Tesla Town in Melbourne, Australia. Many of us expected some pretty big things from Solar City and from the development of …

Solar power myths debunked. Most of these solar energy myths are started by people in the fossil fuel industry with an agenda to undermine the renewable energy market and continue …

Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, announced that they will be manufacturing and installing Solar Roofs! This is huge news, especially coming after the purchase of SolarCity bare more than a week …

MIT scientists have increased power output with 3D solar panel towers from double, up to 20 times the energy as traditional solar panels.  Solar is one of the more accessible …

Graphene is a game-changing material that is already having a pretty big influence in the solar cell and battery storage industries. The potential that this promises could not only lower …

An amazing energy harvester created by 13-year-old Max Loughan for $14. It pulls electricity from the air! This small $14 unit is made from a coffee can, copper wire, pipe, …

Tesla and Solar City are have been doing exciting things over the past couple years. Tesla for both their introduction of the Powerwall off grid home battery system, the affordable Tesla Model …

Researchers at the University of California Irvine have created nanowire-enhanced electrodes that can withstand 200,000 cycles without losing capacity. That makes the battery essentially last a lifetime before needing replacement. …