Renewable energy becoming more cost-competitive with fossil fuels isn’t news – as technology improves and more clean power generation comes online, electricity without emissions gets cheaper.

Theo tin từ ABC News, Daniel Nocera - nhà hóa học tại Mỹ đã chế tạo thành công "lá nhân tạo", một thiết bị có khả năng mô phỏng quá trình quang hợp của thực vật.

Nhà báo Nguyễn Thanh Hà thuộc báo Vietnam News đã đạt giải nhất Giải thưởng Báo chí của Siemens về Công nghệ Xanh 2013, vì chứng minh thành công việc ứng dụng công nghệ xanh giúp cải thiện đời sống của người dân.

London of late has been rolling in the electric car news. The goal in that major European city of lowering its carbon emissions from greener vehicles is well under way through efforts like brand new all-electric taxi fleets and increased electric vehicle usage at nearby Heathrow airport. Now comes word of free electric vehicle charging points being offered as part of a trial to better understand the impact of EV use on the electricity network.

Theo IDG News Service, hãng điện thoại Phần Lan - Nokia hiện đang thử nghiệm một bộ sạc bằng năng lượng mặt trời mới tại Nigeria và Kenya với hy vọng giúp người dùng có thể dễ dàng nạp pin cho điện thoại mà không cần đến lưới điện thông thường.

The title of the Georgia Tech news release, “Stable Electrodes for Improving Printed Electronics,” might not have caught your eye, but this is some totally cool research. Here’s more from Georgia Tech.

On the sidelines of the second international exhibition for Renewable and Decentralised Energy Solutions (ENEREXPRO 2012), the Deputy Director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade's Department of Science and Technology Phan Cong Hop talked to Vietnam Economic News’ Lan Phuong about solutions to develop renewable energy projects.

TEHRAN - Iranian Energy Minister Majid Namjou has called for enhanced ties with India in different sectors, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported Monday.

Adobe Systems Inc. procured about 75 percent or 54 GWh of renewable energy-based electricity in 2010. Deutsche Bank and News Corp. procured 67 percent and 65 percent, respectively, of their electricity consumption from renewable energy sources while Starbucks and Nokia met 58 percent and 46 percent, respectively, of their energy consumption from renewable energy-based electricity.

Senator Joe Lieberman called for a temporary halt on the building of nuclear plants in the U.S., and many news organizations have reported that it could cause a major setback for U.S. nuclear policy. Last year, the Department of Energy announced $8.3 billion in loan guarantees for the construction of two nuclear plants in Georgia. The plants are part of a major push by President Obama and Energy Secretary Steven Chu to support nuclear power in the United States.

Đó là kết luận trong Chỉ số thành phố xanh châu Á – một cuộc nghiên cứu do Đơn vị tình báo kinh tế (EIU) thực hiện dựa trên xếp hạng từ 22 thành phố lớn của châu Á. Theo Channel News Asia, Singapore được đánh giá rất cao trong việc đề ra các mục tiêu đầy tham vọng có lợi cho môi trường cũng như các chiến lược hữu hiệu để đạt được chúng. Đặc biệt, trong chiến lược tiết kiệm năng lượng, Singapore đạt được điểm tối đa.

Energy commissioner considering infrastructure bonds and streamlining national schemes to reduce pressure on banks.EU sources told the newswire that a new type of infrastructure project bond, proposed by commission president Jose Manuel Barroso last year, is likely to be given precedence as a new funding source.

Ireland has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons, starring in a soap opera of EU intrigue and enforced bank bailouts. In Dublin recently for the first time in years, I heard some good news in the midst of all the gloom. The country has a head start on most of the world in capitalizing on one of its few plentiful resources: renewable energy.

Now that would be a brutal blow for any industry battered by a vicious recession. But it's particularly bad news for the American wind industry, which had defied the downturn by installing a record 10,000 megawatts of new capacity in 2009. New wind capacity had grown an average 39 percent annually over the previous five years and represented 39 percent of all new electrical generation that came online last year.

We’ve been talking a while ago about Michael Strano and his thin carbon nanotubes that can transform fuel poured onto them into electricity. A chemical reaction is set up by heating the nanotubes, triggering the transformation at a speed of 10 meters per second.

In honor of Blog Action Day on the topic of water, here is a bit of good news about a new low-cost, energy efficient method for purifying drinking water without the use of chlorine. Scientists at Stanford University have developed a new kind of water filter that uses a combination of silver, cotton, and electricity to kill up to 98 percent of E. coli bacteria in contaminated water. The system was recently described in the American Chemical Society journal.

Previous news were saying that the Obama administration doesn’t have any plans of installing solar panels on the White House. Not even a month has passed, and a representative of the White House in Washington, DC says solar panels will be installed on the White House in order to impulse Americans to adopt green energy.

Norwalk and Darien residents looking to dispose of used compact fluorescent light bulbs, commonly called CFLs, have a variety of options to take advantage of. At a news conference at the Home Depot location on Connecticut Avenue in Norwalk Thursday, state Senator Bob Duff (D-Norwalk) and Norwalk Mayor Richard Moccia detailed the services available to those in the area.

A personal helicopter weighing just 230 lb created sizzling news when it flew on hydrogen with zero emission. With an ability to carry payloads up to 800 lbs, this pocket Hercules can fly for 90 minutes. Fitted with easy controls, this reaches a speed of 100 knots thanks to a pair of small yet powerful motors mounted on it. Two common and easily available things – Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and a catalyst – combined to bring about a milestone in personal aviation history with attention to the environmental issues as well! Avimech has combined these two to power engine in to an innovative machine.

Earlier last year, there were news about scientists dreaming of space-based solar panels, which were to capture the Sun’s energy and bring it to the Earth through microwaves, or lasers, and to provide the ultimate energy source for us.