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Could You Soon Be Filling Up With SEAWATER? US Navy Reveals 'Game Changing' Fuel Created From Water -- Daily Mail * Has flown rad...

The GRAVITY-Powered Lamp That Could Bring 1.5billion People Out Of The Darkness -- Daily Mail  * The GravityLight uses a sand-filled s...

Senate Votes To Save The Navy’s ‘Great Green Fleet’ -- Danger Room The Senate on Wednesday threw a life raft to the Navy’s beleaguere...

Stefan Siegel, president and chief technology officer of Atargis Energy Corporation, talks about the 1:10 scale model of a cycloidal wave en...

The future of energy? NIF Director Edward Moses said. 'It is fully operational, and scientists are taking important steps toward the que...

An underwater generator developed by a Maine firm was tested on riverbeds and the seafloor. Ocean Renewable Power Company Tidal Turbines: Ne...

Last month, the U.S. Navy deployed the Paul F. Foster - a decommissioned destroyer now used for experimental purposes - on a 17-hour voyage ...

Scientists are looking at how to sequester carbon produced by burning methane in an ice-like state Methane Hydrate Cages, The Key to Using M...

How A Billionaire Fills Gas Tank For $1 A Gallon -- CNN Long Beach, California (CNN) -- Gasoline at $4 a gallon is no worry for T. Boone Pic...

Scientists have engineered a new super biofilm, a key component of which is Bacillus stratosphericus -- a microbe commonly found in high con...

13-year-old Aidan Dwyer developed a new way to collect solar energy, and along the way sparked a fierce debate among scholars and scientists...

A leaf-cutter ant foraging trail. These ants can form foraging trails in the rainforest that are hundreds of meters long containing thousand...

Solar wind doesn't act like wind on Earth, and the satellite wouldn't generate electricity like a windmill. iStockphoto From Discov...

The claim of electricity from the air as a renewable resource is controversial From The BBC: Tiny charges gathered directly from humid air c...

From The Economist: New power sources could be made using magnesium. STORING energy is one of the biggest obstacles to the widespread adopti...

Commuters at Stockholm's Central station. Jim Stenman From Time Magazine: It's 7:30 a.m. on a wintry morning in downtown Stockholm a...

Navy Aircraft Could nuclear-powered carriers use their reactors and seawater to provide jet fuel for their aircraft? U.S. Navy/Stephen Row...

Photo: Icy Hot : Courtesy of NASA From Popular Science: Methane hydrate crystals show promise as a clean energy source. When methane and fr...

Potential Energy Cells? shrff14 , via Flickr.com From Popular Science: One of the interesting side effects of las...

Solar panels cover the rooftop of the STAPLES Center sports complex in Los Angeles. David McNew / Getty Images From Time Magazine: If we...