Power/Energy

A U.S. Energy Bill at Last

The Greening of GE

Alternative energy, once the province of do-it-yourselfers and scrappy technology developers,is suddenly Big Business

The Rise of the Energy Efficiency Utility

Vermont's efforts to curb electricity demand are working, and Delaware is starting the most ambitious plan yet

An Almost All-Electric Car?

Watch for the upcoming plug-in hybrid battle between GM and Toyota

Doomsday Vault

News brief

India May Resuscitate Disputed Enron Plant

Summer shortages give new life to India's biggest power project

How Much Water Does It Take to Make Electricity?

Natural gas requires the least water to produce energy, biofuels the most, according to a new study

The Power of Pond Scum: Biodiesel and Hydrogen From Algae

A start-up may have the key to boosting algae's chances as a future fuel, and scientists see a path to hydrogen production from pond scum

Greenhouse Gas Trends

A tale of two perspectives

Synthetic Fuel From a Solar Collector

Solar energy powers greenhouse-gas-free synthetic fuel production in Sandia experiment

Bubble Power

Tiny bubbles imploded by sound waves can make hydrogen nuclei fuse—and may one day become a revolutionary new energy source

Nuclear Testing Goes Virtual

The Atomic Fortress That Time Forgot

The world's first plutonium-making reactor is an Atomic Age landmark - and it faces an uncertain future

Antineutrino Detector Could Spot Atom Bomb Cheats

Ghostly particles tell power levels and plutonium stock

How Much Water Does It Take to Make Electricity?

Natural gas requires the least water to produce energy, biofuels the most, according to a new study

The Greening of GE

Alternative energy, once the province of do-it-yourselfers and scrappy technology developers,is suddenly Big Business

China Doubles Wind Watts

Trumping rivals in wind energy despite dismal returns

The Rise of the Energy Efficiency Utility

Vermont's efforts to curb electricity demand are working, and Delaware is starting the most ambitious plan yet

How Much Water Does It Take to Make Electricity?

Natural gas requires the least water to produce energy, biofuels the most, according to a new study

Solar-Cell Squabble

Organic photovoltaics could be dirt cheap, but their efficiency is in dispute

Electricity Over Glass

A major fiber-optics firm buys into transmitting electric power with light

The Rise of the Energy Efficiency Utility

Vermont's efforts to curb electricity demand are working, and Delaware is starting the most ambitious plan yet

An engineer walks into a comedy club...

Electrical engineer Don McMillan has turned his love of comedy into a career

How Much Water Does It Take to Make Electricity?

Natural gas requires the least water to produce energy, biofuels the most, according to a new study

So you want to be an expert witness

Roger L. Boyell says forensic engineering is a great job—if you can take the pressure

Loser: Algae Bloom Climate-Change Scheme Doomed

Planktos's ploy to combat global warming by sequestering carbon in the oceans holds no water

Tell Us What You Think

Why Losers?

We don't do this because we're mean spirited. We do it because we care

Winner: Solving the Oil Equation

A team of geophysicists and computer scientists closes in on the ultimate seismic-imaging code for finding oil

You Tell Us

Winning ideas are often doomed by poor execution or by nothing more than being ahead of their time. Here are a few products that could go either way. Tell us how you think they'll fare.