Natural Gas Prices Low As Warm Winter Continues, Supply Climbs

New natural gas mining techniques and a warm winter has helped push the cost of natural gas down, providing relief to customers even as demand for the gas continues to rise. According to recent reports the cost of ... continue

National Academy of Science says not to expect a lot out of cellulose biofuels for some time

Regardless of what some people might have you believe there will come a point when our fossil fuels will run out, and even though the debate about how long that might really be rages on some companies are looking ... continue

The Geothermal Energy Expo to bring 160 energy companies together

Green energy is a hot topic when it comes to renewable energy and of all the different methods to produce renewable energy geothermal is probably the least well known but the Geothermal Energy Association is looking to ... continue

A new breed of ‘smart windows’ are less expensive and toxic

For those of you not familiar with the term 'smart windows' it is the term used to describe a type of window that uses glass that can darken or lighten according to outside temperatures. Up until now that ... continue

Introducing the world’s most efficient vacuum cleaner – suck on this Dyson.

It might look a little funky but I guess not so much if you compare it to a Dyson machine and besides who of your neighbors could brag about having the world's most efficient vacuum cleaner that ... continue

What do the Fibonacci Sequence and solar power have in common?

Solar energy is considered to many to be the answer to our energy problems but the main stumbling block to more wide spread use has always been the effective collecting of that energy. Well it seems that one ... continue

U.S. gamers consume as much electricity yearly as San Diego

An ultimately useless (but sort of interesting) statistic was uncovered by intrepid boffins at Scientific American, once they put down their damn game controllers: in total, U.S. videogame consoles consume as much electricity annually as the entire ... continue

Prominent ‘Peak Oil Theory’ advocate Matt Simmons dies suddenly

Depending on your news source, he was a "provocateur," "thinker," "investor," "author" or possibly most damningly, "Bush advisor," but the man who penned Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy to ... continue

Better energy use could save US $1.2 trillion

McKinsey & Company have recently released a new report with a detailed analysis of the potential savings the United States in non-transportation areas. Research has found that if the annual non-transportation consumption was ... continue

Are we headed to an Internet Dark Ages?

The common wisdom these days is that the Internet and Web, as well as technology in general, will continue on a forward momentum. It will constantly add to our collective knowledge and increase our achievements as it ... continue

Technology to take power usage through the roof

Last year the world spent $80 billion (USD) on electricity to power all the gadgets we can’t seem to do without anymore. This poser demand has increased due to the rise in computers, MP3 ... continue

Sustainable energy visual search

If you are someone who is heavy into environmental and energy issues this offering from Reegle might just be up your alley. while they might like to bill themselves as a search engine for ... continue

Number of commercial Energy Star rated buildings up 130%

It’s all about saving as much energy you can whether it be in our homes or our workplaces. For those interested in those kinds of things the EPA has just released it’s Top 10 list ... continue

The Internet is using more power but doing it better

As the Internet grows and more and more people are using it to watch videos or play their music and store their data it is inevitable that its overall energy usage would also climb. With numbers like ... continue

Gamers are energy pigs

And here everyone thought that gamers are nothing but a bunch of couch potatoes. Well maybe they are but those consoles they are using to play all the hottest games are chewing through a shitload of energy. ... continue