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The Buses of Tomorrow Will Run on Sewage

Food waste, sewage, and manure are all potent sources of renewable energy.

Daisy Malt
Feb 24, 2016 3 min read

Sugar Batteries and Fake Leaves Will Light Up Your World

We could combine technology and biology to produce clean, renewable energy–and lots of it.

Claire Asher
Feb 23, 2016 5 min read

Watch: How to Power a Refugee Camp

New ways of bringing energy access to everyone who needs it, wherever they are.

Jessica Bishopp
Feb 19, 2016 2 min read

Fueling Your Car With Hydrogen Isn’t Green–It’s Gray

Manufacturers are investing in it, but the benefits compared to other forms of car power are mixed.

Rowena Fletcher-Wood
Feb 18, 2016 5 min read

Fusion: “We’re So Close We Can Taste It”

Atomic Energy Authority head Steve Cowley talks tokamaks, tritium, and the tantalizing prospect of enough power for a billion years.

Ian Steadman
Feb 16, 2016 15 min read

How One Village Threw Out the Frackers and Went Solar

For the small village of Balcombe, community and collaboration trumped fossil fuel money.

Alice Bell
Feb 16, 2016 8 min read

Batteries Not Excluded

The supercomputer in your pocket and your next car rely on them–so what will we do if we run out of...

Simon Parkin
Feb 11, 2016 10 min read

6 Perpetual Motion Devices That Didn’t Work

Always fake, but not always hoaxes.

Ian Steadman
Feb 10, 2016 6 min read

In Defense of”¦ Fracking?

It's low-carbon, halts new drilling, and aids Western interests in the Middle East. Does shale deserve a second chance?

Julian Sayerer
Feb 9, 2016 8 min read

Why Nuclear Energy Isn’t Getting Safer

New reactors became less common after disasters like Chernobyl–with the side effect of also slowing research into new reactor designs.

Duncan Geere
Feb 4, 2016 11 min read

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