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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 Burning coal to make electricity is a crude and outdated approach, but alternative energies have still not advanced far enough ...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 ...

Solar and wind energy are the alternative energy options most often chosen by those seeking an off-ramp from the grid superhighway. But while solar and wind may indeed be the most reasonable choices for many, it is always best to ...

There are of course many different brands of solar energy panels out there on the market. But there are actually only three different types of solar panels, classified by the materials used to make the solar cells they contain and ...

Like many other alternative energy industries, solar energy companies suffer from one major problem: the cost of production is simply too high for solar energy to take place on a large scale. Federal subsidies exist to alleviate some of the ...