No more oil – renewable raw materials are the future. This motto not only applies to biodiesel, but also to isobutene, a basic product used in the chemical industry. In a pilot plant researchers now want to obtain isobutene from sugar instead of oil for the first time.

Ngày 6/5, tại Hà Nội, Bộ Xây dựng và tổ chức USAID (Hoa Kỳ) đã tổ chức khởi động chương trình năng lượng sạch Việt Nam, thúc đẩy hiệu quả năng lượng trong ngành Xây dựng.

A London-based firm is using coffee waste from cappuccinos and lattes to generate clean energy.

Solar power, however, is a free, renewable and abundant resource. Today solar energy is an inexpensive and innovative option for treating waste that is becoming more widespread and accepted.

Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory are developing innovative new window technology that helps improve occupants' comfort and cuts energy use.

We are told that driving alone in our cars is a waste of our dwindling fuel supplies. But scientists now claim they have developed a way to use the movement of cars along a street to generate electricity.

Bộ Ngoại giao, Tổ chức Đầu tư tư hải ngoại (OPIC), và Cơ quan Phát triển và Thương mai Mỹ (USTDA) gần đây công bố phát động Chương trình Năng lượng sạch châu Á-Thái Bình Dương.

If you think your origami skills can't be beat – try this: (1) use the world's thinnest material, (2) make the origami fold and unfold itself, and (3) pack into your miniscule origami box enough hydrogen atoms to exceed future U.S. goals for hydrogen energy storage devices. Researchers from the University of Maryland have done all three.

The UK can celebrate the launch of its first electric bus routes, to swing into operation this month in Milton Keynes, where eight electric buses will be running, taking over a busy "Number 7" 15-mile route, and covering two suburbs of Wolverton and Bletchley.

There's an old camping trick, for people who don't want to bother getting a lantern: just stick a flashlight up against the bottom of a plastic pop bottle, turn the flashlight on, then bask in the bottle's glow.

An innovative Office of Naval Research (ONR) program is looking to Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard veterans for the cutting edge in alternative energy-and is highlighted this week in a new video released during the Navy's Warrior Care Month.

Ford Motor Co., the second largest U.S. automaker, is showcasing a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle that uses solar panels in the roof to recharge itself.

To boost the use of Concentrating Solar Power Technologies (CSP), the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India, is implementing a UNDP - GEF supported project on “Market Development & Promotion of Solar Concentrator based Process Heat Applications in India”.

The Kagoshima Nanatsujima Mega Solar Power Plant, built by the electronics manufacturer Kyocera, boasts postcard views of Kagoshima Bay and Sakurajima volcano. It’s also Japan’s largest, with a capacity of 70 megawatts.

Scientists at the New Jersey Institute of Technology have joined the ranks of those from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Stanford University and LG, by creating prototype flexible batteries.

Andrew Greenfield checks his home’s solar power output against consumption through his computer and mobile phone dozens of times each day.

Operators of a wind farm in waters off Fukushima prefecture, site of the March 2011 nuclear disaster, aim to cut the cost of setting up the floating turbines by half as they push to commercialize the technology.

A 9.5-MW power station that will be fired using coconut waste is to be developed in Thailand.

Last month the European Ocean Energy Association hosted its first conference outside Brussels at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. It was a great event.

The British project planner Sustainable Renewable Technologies (SRT, Bilston Glen, UK) has been nominated for the Solar Power Portal Award for a solar photovoltaic (PV) system installed on a pyramid-shaped office building.