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  Daily Mail: Scientists create FUEL from thin air and sunlight for the first time, paving the way towards carbon-neutral hydrocarbon fue...

A Cabot Oil and Gas natural gas drill is viewed at a hydraulic fracturing site on January 17, 2012 in Springville, Pennsylvania. Spencer Pla...

Messy wires and cables will soon be a thing of the past Photo: CORBIS From The Telegraph: Mobile phone users will be able to charge their...

Photo: The Sierra Club From National Geographic: A view that the world’s leading electricity fuel—and major contributor to climate change—is...

Photo: Power snow: A five-centimeter-wide nozzle head (top) sprays out a mixture of methane and water that forms snow-like methane hydrate....

Using Nanotech to Reach Every Drop of Oil Flcelloguy via Wikimedia From Popular Science: You can't throw a rock in the realm of biote...

From Future Pundit: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and former Dupont CEO Chad Holliday say we spend too little on energy R&D and energy...

(Click Image To Enlarge) Gas Prices as a percent of income varies by state. See how each state fares. Credit: Karl Tate/LiveScience From Liv...

From The Economist: Newly economic, widely distributed sources are shifting the balance of power in the world’s gas markets. SOME time in 20...

From The American: Our transition away from fossil fuels will take decades—if it happens at all. During the early 1970s we were told by the ...

From OECD Observer: Transition to new energy sources is unavoidable, but here are five sobering first principles to remember along the way. ...

As China takes the lead on wind turbines, above, and solar panels, President Obama is calling for American industry to step up. Shiho Fukada...

Credit: Roy Ritchie From The Technology Review: Liquid batteries, giant lasers, and vast new reserves of natural gas highlight the fundament...

The light-weight battery is created by painting nanotube ink onto paper From the Daily Mail: Ordinary paper could one day be used as ultra-l...

From Wired Science: The Advanced Research Projects Agency for energy put out its second call for new ideas, and this time, the agency has na...

A Self-Sufficient Energy Mix Wind turbines deployed in conjunction with solar energy and a series of furnaces burning straw and wood chips m...

From The Next Big Future: Map of coal power by state. Note: about of third of the air pollution can go thousands of miles from the plant. Th...

This schematic shows the structure of the new material, Xe(H2)7. Freely rotating hydrogen molecules (red dumbbells) surround xenon atoms (ye...

Batteries made of paper may power electronics in the future, researchers say. Shown are images from an experimental paper-based battery. Cre...

From The Houston Chronicle: What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleo...