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When it comes to poverty, underdevelopment, and infant mortality, one of the main contributors is a lack of access to clean drinking water. Today,…

At one time, the price of manufacturing and installing photovoltaic cells was seen as a major stumbling block to their wide-scale use. But with rece…

Today, more than a billion people around the world live without electricity, either due to lack of access or the sheer fact that they cannot affor…

Solar Power has come a long way in recent years. Once considered to be the most promising amongst energy alternatives, it has now reached a point wh…

Fusion power has taken a beating in the last few decades. Once considered the best option for clean, abundant alternatives to fossil fuel and coal…

The Seawater Desalination Challenge is a competition to facilitate the development of breakthrough technologies for low-cost removal of salt from se…

We are going to see more and more releases of methane from sinkholes and from the ocean floor

Google and IEEE co-sponsored the $1M Little Box Challenge to create of a power inverter that converts DC current from solar, wind into an AC current

Shockley-Queisser limit that reveals a 33.7% efficiency limit on the amount of solar energy a photovoltaic cell can generate.

The World Bank: Alternative energy is good for business