An architecture firm based out of Stockholm is proposing to retrofit one of the city’s towers with millions of energy-generating straws, thereby turning the building into an urban power plant

Stockholm-based architecture firm Belatchew is proposing to retrofit a tower on one of the city's island neighborhoods with 14 new floors and millions…

Continue ReadingAn architecture firm based out of Stockholm is proposing to retrofit one of the city’s towers with millions of energy-generating straws, thereby turning the building into an urban power plant

Compressed air could help wind energy plants to save power at night, when winds are strongest for generation during the day, when demand is high

Enough Northwest wind energy to power about 85,000 homes each month could be stored in porous rocks deep underground for later…

Continue ReadingCompressed air could help wind energy plants to save power at night, when winds are strongest for generation during the day, when demand is high

A new study out of the UK suggests that the world may be warming more slowly than predicted, but still with catastrophic results

Some of the most extreme predictions of global warming are unlikely to materialise, new scientific research has suggested, but the world…

Continue ReadingA new study out of the UK suggests that the world may be warming more slowly than predicted, but still with catastrophic results