Why sustainable power is unsustainable.
Serious obstacles on the road towards a future of renewable sources of energy.
There has never been a more important time to invest in green technologies, yet many of us believe these efforts are doomed to fail. This article disagrees.
Dirty energy threat to green Brazil.
Brazil boasts of being one of the world's "greenest" energy suppliers, but recent policy initiatives could jeopardise its desire to be a big player in future climate change discussions.
Article in The New York Times pondering the worrying future of our most wanted fuel: oil.
Great review on one of the most important industrial processes in our society. With images and videos.
Can carbon fiber solve the oil crisis?
Cutting a car's weight makes a lot of sense in the knowledge that we are running down of oil. Learn how carbon fiber could help.
Very interesting and easy to understand introduction to solar power and its current state of development.
The solar power towers of Seville.
Learn how solar power is being produced in the hot countryside near Seville.
Is the Sun setting on solar power in Spain?
An article of the current heyday of solar power in Spain and its dependency on subsidies.
A scientific study says that biofuels are even worse than the gasoline for the current climatic change. Learn why.
To learn it all about one of the most important alternatives to fossil fuels.
Ethanol, mixed with a small amount of gasoline, can be used to fuel cars. Learn how to make it at home, safely and cheaply.
Forget solar panels, this house runs on algae.
Students at the University of Cambridge have designed an energy and carbon-neutral house powered entirely by algae.
Wind energy might be the simplest renewable energy to understand. Yet there are misconceptions about what makes it turn.
Windfarms unlikely to threaten birds.
Conservation groups have raised fears that large birds could get caught in the turbines and that these structures could disturb other species. But this idea is slowly fading away. Learn why.
Biomass energy 'could be harmful'.
Biomass power - such as burning wood for energy - could do more harm than good in the battle to reduce greenhouse gases.
Introduction to what geothermal energy is and how we can make use of it.
Learn about Iceland's renewable geothermal power.
The car of the future is here today. It doesn't use gasoline and it doesn't pollute the air. In fact, it produces steam instead of exhaust. And the mystery fuel? Hydrogen, the simplest and most abundant element in the Universe.
