The Energy Transformation Collection

Italian reserachers showed the worth of floating wind farms despite a gap in the knowledge of their manufacture and operation.

Readily available zinc is being considered in a range of batteries as effective complements to lithium-ion.

Engineers and researchers are working to better understand hydrogen combustion, storage, and even natural reservoirs.

It’s a leading-edge technology that some experts believe could save the planet. See where carbon is being pulled out of energy and industrial processes.

Tristan Schwartzman explains how new local regulations are reshaping the energy landscape in New York City.

It’s one of the largest energy industries in the world, but gas hasn’t always been easy to come by.

Everyone is responsible for emitting some greenhouse gases, but people in these states produce the most.

It’s no wonder that recent reports of extreme heat have led to a refocus on methane gas emissions. When in the atmosphere, there’s no other gas better at trapping Earth’s heat than methane.

Common materials can combine structural strength and energy storage, say MIT researchers

Wave-power desalination system produces drinking water without electricity.

Reducing or eliminating emissions, investing in renewable and alternative energies, and implementing carbon capture, usage, and storage are tools common to these industries’ carbon neutral strategy.

As the global demand for batteries grows in the race to decarbonize, research is evaluating potential complements to the industry favorite, lithium-ion.

When adjusted against overall inflation, which reached startling levels last year, the U.S. residential electricity bills increased by 5 percent.

Georgia Tech researchers turn a common electric insulator into a semiconductor. The new semiconductor’s ability to withstand extremely high voltages improves overall performance and efficiency. It also helps to reduce costs.

Packing the whole family into a car sometimes can be the greenest way to go.

By selecting for mostly ultraviolet and infrared light, a new type of solar panel makes as good a window as wall.

A Caltech experiment is space was the first to successfully transmit solar power to Earth.

A prototype using channels filled with fluid shows promise in mitigating heating and cooling costs in buildings.

Kathy Hannun, founder and president of Dandelion Energy, discusses the efficiency advantages and engineering challenges of drawing heat from the ground using geothermal heat pumps.

However cheap the solar cell, the cost of building has slowed the growth of solar farms. Now a company out of Australia has found a way to unfold them like an accordion.

Revamped diesel technology breaks the link between the choice of engine and the kind of fuel needed to run it. Where will that opportunity lead?

A team of Singapore scientists has developed a way to make polymer electrolytes, which are key components for safer lithium-ion batteries, from waste polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles.

Crude oil prices are lower now than the inflation-adjusted prices of 2019 and 2021, but retail gasoline prices still are higher.

A tiny barrel within a barrel turns ocean swells into electricity.

City planners and product engineers don’t envision a future filled with large, cumbersome solar panels. New and efficient solar-power technology seeks to blends in and become indistinguishable from the real-life experience around them.

How do you keep the electricity flowing when the sun goes down? Part of the answer may be found in the stuff that unclogs your sink.

It’s never cloudy in space, which is why some engineers want to beam solar power from orbit.