Painting urban roofs white is perhaps the simplest and most benign of the various schemes that have been proposed to fight climate change through geo-engineering.
Steven Chu, the US energy secretary, advocated white roofs last year but some experts dou…
The definition of renewable energy does not just include wind, solar, water and geothermal energy sources. There are some exciting new possibilities for harnessing a new and little known form of renewable energy that is already in abundant supply in ou…
Hydrogen Fuel powered cars are part of what we now call green technology. Using water and converting it into a fuel or gas is not only smart and good for the ecology, but water fuel is free.
Saving the air we breath will be a great accomplishment by using solar fuel, or solar panels. Having a free fuel be be another great thing for the future. We can finally start to clean up our planet.
Solar power as well as solar panels are the technology that will finally change the way we use, store, and sell electric power. Finally,a free fuel that will also be very good for the ecology.
My story in yesterday’s FT about the astonishing increase in China’s research output in recent years has stirred up a lively response through emails to me and on discussion groups such as Chinapol.
The most interesting question is whether t…
I’ve just met one of my scientific heroes, Frank Drake.
He started the search for extraterrestrial intelligence – SETI – 50 years ago when he pointed a large radio-telescope in West Virginia at the nearby star Tau Ceti and listened for any radio …
An ideal solution is a solution in which no volume change and no enthalpy change takes place on mixing the solute and the solvent in any proportion. A non-ideal solution on the other hand is a solution in which solute and solvent molecules interact wit…
Do you want to generate your own renewable electricity for your home use? If you do, you are in good company. Many people are going this route, and are choosing among several green energy solutions.
deCODE genetics was the biotech industry’s champion at scientific discovery – contributing more research papers to top journals than any other company – but its commercial model was far from successful. In November it filed for bankruptcy protec…