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Coal is used to generate roughly half of all electricity produced in the United States. Besides electric utility companies, industries and businesses with their own power plants use coal to generate electricity. Power plants burn coal to make...

Traditional sources of energy have come under more and more scrutiny with each passing day. While the petroleum reserves of the world are already running dry, the use of these fossil fuels is also facing opposition from those who care for the planet....

Google is getting greener, and trying to help others expand their use of solar and wind power. The Internet search giant is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into alternative energy sources in an effort to relieve the environmental strain from.

Cost has always been one of solar’s biggest problems. Traditional solar cells require silicon, and silicon is an expensive commodity and upto 70 percent of the silicon gets wasted in the manufacturing process. That means even the cheapest...

Some scientists had calculated a long time back that energy rained down on Earth by Sun in an hour is the same as the amount of energy consumed by humans worldwide in a year. This calculation led to the birth of the first conventional devices that...

Farm waste can effectively be transformed into ethanol, an alternative fuel. Demand for such alternative sources of energy production is increasing day by day. Hence, to meet the soaring demand, along with the increasing oil prices, a Canadian company..

Carbon-based fuel cells are about to become a science fact. SRI, in November, announced that it has developed direct carbon fuel-cell technology. The SRI researchers have shown that they can take pulverized coal or anything else that contains carbon,...