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One of the things that most preppers are concerned about is producing their own electrical energy. Let’s face it: we’re a society that is hooked on electricity. Almost everything we do requires some sort of electronic device. We can’t even ...

Has anyone ever written an ode to batteries? If so, we can be pretty sure the aspiring poet who did so was an alternative energy enthusiast who discovered firsthand how absolutely essential it is to have a well-supplied battery bank ...

On the classic television show Star Trek, the starship Enterprise had a disturbing habit of losing power at the most inopportune of times. When your ship is being chased through interstellar space by a Klingon warbird or cloaked Romulan destroyer, ...

Maybe you’ve heard this before, but then again maybe you haven’t: it is actually possible to generate usable electrical energy by riding a bicycle. Not by simply riding it out in the street, of course, but indoors, suspended on a ...

Solar flare activity has increased significantly in recent days. There have been a total of four X Class solar flares since Mother’s Day last Sunday. While none of the coronal mass ejections (CME) were Earth-directed, NOAA now expects the active ...

During a 2009 stop at a Home Depot in Alexandria, Virginia, President Obama called on Congress to pass a tax credit that would help homeowners pay for energy-efficiency retrofitting projects, and he referred to insulation in particular as “sexy.” “Most ...

Despite the political scandals, the failed promises, and the general difficulties that new energy technologies face when trying to break the stranglehold of fossil fuels, the field of solar energy has continued to advance and expand. Past disappointments aside, at ...

“To boldly go where no one has gone before” – through its various incarnations, this was the continuing mission of the starship Enterprise, as its intrepid crew traveled the lengths and breadths of the universe in the star vessel that ...

An energy production system that relies almost completely on the incineration of fossil fuels is wasteful, inefficient, unreliable, and unclean. Burning coal to make electricity is a crude and outdated approach, but alternative energies have still not advanced far enough ...

In Washington, scientists developed a model home that not only avoids energy bills, but it actually produces net additional energy that the homeowners would be able to sell for profit. The National Institute of Standards and Technology created the “Net ...