According to the latest United Nations report, nearly 80% of the global energy supply could be met by renewable energy by 2050 if backed by the correct public policies. The six renewable energy technologies reviewed include bioenergy, solar, power, geothermal power, hydropower, ocean energy, and wind energy, with more than 160 existing scientific use cases […]
Energy Use in the Military
In a recent blog post covered by The Daily Energy Report, Sohbet Karbuz writes about the energy consumption in the US military. He shares some interesting facts from his research which shed light on the hidden costs of our armed forces. In 2009, the Department of Defense consumed 932 trillion BTUs of energy. This equates […]
The Energy Cocktail: Powering a Nation
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has developed an edutainment web application that allows you to be in control of the United States energy. The goal of the game is to rework the U.S. energy portfolio to double the energy production in the United while decreasing the total carbon emissions. Try the Energy […]
The Anti-Sunscreen
If you are into solar energy, there is some good news on the horizon. According to research by a team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, embedding a small amount of selenium into a mostly zinc-oxide base, dramatically boosts the material’s efficiency in absorbing light. Currently the cost and performance of many photo-voltaic systems is prohibitive […]
Are Renewable Energy Sources Green?
“The giant oil companies, when left to their own devices, will treat even the most magnificent of nature’s wonders like a sewer,” writes Bob Herbert in his New York Times editorial “Disaster in the Amazon.”He concludes, “The riches to be made are so vastly corrupting, that governments refuse to impose the kinds of oversight and safeguards […]