Innovations

As compared to natural intelligence (NI), which describes the human capacity to perform both daily and complex tasks, artificial intelligence (AI) instead describes the completely autonomous behavior of computer systems. Equipped with the sensor technology to determine tasks that...

While many wind and solar energy projects are well underway, there's another potential source of renewable energy that is mostly untapped: the ocean. And in order to find out the best way to utilize that vast resource, the federal...

GEORGETOWN, TEXAS - Georgetown has gained international spotlight for choosing to move to 100 percent renewable energy, and a local brewery is choosing to join in on the efforts. "We make our beer with 100 percent renewable energy," said Rentsch brewmaster...

In separate announcements, Microsoft Corp. and Daimler indicated that hydrogen fuel cells could provide significantly better energy solutions for data centers than existing electrical grid and backup power technology. Daimler, best known for its Mercedes-Benz automobile brand, presented this week...

Most of the world’s oil reserves are buried kilometers under the Earth’s surface. With nations worldwide slowly waking up to its ecological impacts, our newest sources of oil may lie far below Cayuga’s waters, stored in a group of green,...

Audi is expanding production of what it says is a nearly carbon neutral kind of gasoline and diesel from entirely renewable sources. The German automaker, a unit of Volkswagen, said Wednesday that it plans to build a new pilot facility...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is the driest non-polar place on Earth. It’s so dry that some parts of the desert have never seen a single drop of precipitation, and there’s rarely lasting cloud-cover. While these conditions are hostile for human...

Researchers in South Korea say they’ve found a promising way to produce fuel from a greenhouse gas by using sunlight and common metals to convert carbon dioxide into methane. The process they developed mixes tiny particles of zinc and copper...

"We have demonstrated that 'smart greenhouses' can capture solar energy for electricity without reducing plant growth, which is pretty exciting," said Michael Loik, professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and lead author on a...

So far, the House tax bill, passed wholly by the Republican party, picks the winners and losers in the energy industry. Wind power and other green energy actors are the losers in this new economic model, according to leading...