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BMW i3 to come with a year of free fast-charging in California

BMW i3 Owners Treated to Free Fast-Charging

BMW may not have been first, but the company has been working hard to increase awareness and adoption of electric vehicles, such as the...
Fuel Cell Vehicle Myth Five – Fuel Cell Vehicles Use Liquid Hydrogen

Fuel Cell Vehicle Myth Five – Fuel Cell Vehicles Use Liquid Hydrogen

We’ve been filling up conventional vehicles with liquid fuel for over a century, so it only makes sense that hydrogen fuel cell vehicles use...
Could climate change explain why this hole opened up in Russia's Yamal Peninsula?

Would You Know Climate Change from a Hole in the Ground?

Climate change is affecting many different parts of the world, apparently in ways we do not yet fully understand, and may never understand. How...
Fuel Cell Vehicle Myth Four – Hydrogen Fuel Storage is Dangerous

Fuel Cell Vehicle Myth Four – Hydrogen Fuel Storage is Dangerous

I’m really getting on a roll here, talking about various myths surrounding fuel cell vehicles, and I’m looking forward to hearing what our faithful...

Move Over Giant Hard Drives, Scientists Store 1TB of Data in a Spoon of...

Advances in the field of nanotechnology have managed to completely transform our portable electronic gadgets from what they used to be. The most fascinating part...

If We Pollute Our Atmosphere, Surely Aliens Have Done the Same to Theirs

We can find aliens by detecting polluted atmospheres. Or something along these lines is what a team of astrophysicists from Harvard-Smithsonian Center imply in a recently...
Fuel Cell Vehicle Myth Three – Hydrogen Fuel is Expensive

Fuel Cell Vehicle Myth Three – Hydrogen Fuel is Expensive

If cost is a measure of how willing people are to get into alternative fuel vehicles, such as fuel cell vehicles, won’t expensive hydrogen...

UK Supermarket Meets 100% of Its Energy Demands from Food Waste

Generating electricity from food waste and leftovers- not a new concept at all. But using the electricity generated from expired produce to fully power...

New Coating for Solar Cells Prevents Them from Overheating

While solar panels generate clean electricity, many of the maintenance practices are often not so clean, especially when it comes to cooling. A team...

MIT Researchers’ New Device Generates Electricity From Air

Just because solar and wind power are making an incredible progress, it does not mean that the other renewable energy sources should be neglected and...