Australia's voters back PM Morrison's faith in fossil fuel. By Sonali Paul.

More coal power stations around the world came offline last year than were approved for perhaps first time since industrial revolution, report says

Nuclear power plants are so big, complicated and expensive to build that more are shutting down than opening up. An Oregon company, NuScale Power, wants to change that trend by building nuclear plants that are the opposite of existing ones: smaller, simpler and cheaper.

Germans believed that the billions they spent on renewables would redeem them. Many of them will insist that the renewables effort was merely “botched,” but it wasn't. The Energiewende was doomed to fail.

Cloud Peak Energy gave contributions to leading think tanks that have attacked the link between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change.

Some 18 million barrels of oil transit through every day. The economic impact would be catastrophic. By Scott Ritter.

A research team at Princeton University has harnessed sunlight to isolate hydrogen from industrial wastewater. By Molly A. Seltzer.

The absence of the tiniest creature can shape the world in the biggest way. By Robert Krulwich.

It is a cliché that the United States and Britain are obsessed with Middle East oil, but the reason for the obsession is often misdiagnosed. By Tom Stevenson.

The prospect of permanent daylight saving time in the U.S brightened after President Trump extended support to the move by some lawmakers. But the pitch of energy savings tagged to it is looking doubtful.

Magnets made of rare-earth metals like neodymium are commonly used in the generators found in offshore wind turbines. Turbines with neodymium magnets generally need less maintenance than those without them—an advantage when your turbine is a few miles out from land. But neodymium is costly, it almost all comes from China (which has restricted export in the past to drive prices up), and the environmental impact of extracting it from the Earth is not super.

One million homes in Britain are now using “green gas” for heating and cooking after a surge in energy produced from farm and food waste. Biomethane plants – there are now 60 in the UK – use food leftovers, cattle and chicken manure as well as grass silage and hybrid rye to create gas.

President Trump has promised to revive coal's flagging fortunes. Is it possible?

Could allow us to generate electricity using supercritical carbon dioxide.

True story.

A small, lightweight fission system could help spacecraft travel huge distances. 

"A solar thermal fuel is like a rechargeable battery, but instead of electricity you put sunlight in and get heat out."

Buried below the seabed around Japan, there are beds of methane, trapped in molecular cages of ice. In some places, the sediment covering these deposits of frozen water and methane has been eroded away, leaving whitish mounts of what looks like dirty ice rearing up out of the seafloor. Take a chunk of this stuff up to the surface and it looks and feels much like ice, except for a give-away fizzing sensation in the palm of your hand, but put a match to it and it doesn’t just melt, it ignites.

Deveci Tech has built wind turbines to be placed in the center of the road which will generate energy from the wind generated by cars

More than 40 percent of the world's coal plants are operating at a loss due...

Reuters investigates how a U.S. ‘clean coal’ program that costs taxpayers a billion dollars annually regularly fails to deliver on its environmental promises.

In response to a soaring population and energy crisis, Nigeria invests $20 billion in Solar Power.

BP's investment in next-generation technology just paid off to the tune of a billion barrels of oil. The British energy company has discovered 1 billion barrels of crude at an existing oilfield in the Gulf of Mexico. BP also announced two new offshore oil discoveries and a major new investment in a nearby field. BP is the Gulf of Mexico's biggest producer, and it's making strides to hold that title.

Longer life times, larger ranges and faster recharging—developments such as electric mobility or the miniaturisation of electronics require new storage materials for batteries. With its enormous storage capacity, silicon would potentially have decisive advantages over the materials used in commercial available lithium-ion batteries. But due to its mechanical instability, it has so far been almost impossible to use silicon for storage technology.

THE OBJECTION RAISED most frequently when it comes to a Green New Deal is its cost. It’s preposterous; it’s too expensive; we just can’t afford it. But before scoffing at the prospect of the wealthiest nation in the history of the world funding such a project, it’s worth taking a look at what one of the country’s poorest states was recently able to spend. South Carolina, in a bid to expand its generation of nuclear power in recent years, dropped $9 billion on a single project — and has nothing to show for it.

A massive expansion leads to the first ultrahigh-voltage AC-DC power grid

German solar carmaker Sono Motors has revealed the very first images of the design for its first series solar car destined for a mass market, the Sion.

From the gilet jaune viewpoint, the big cities are not places where you go to seek out solidarity: they’re where you show your face to citizens who wouldn’t normally give you a moment’s thought. By Jeremy Harding.

Borrowing energy from black holes would offer a highly efficient way to navigate our galaxy, an astronomer says. Potential targets include Proxima Centauri, a system some four light-years away with several exoplanets, including one Earth-like body orbiting in the habitable zone.

Growing food, profits and populations with renewable energy, resilient agriculture. By Art Cullen.

Within the vast Permian Basin, in West Texas, at the Waha gas pipeline junction some 120 miles south of Midland, buyers and sellers come together to sell huge volumes of natural gas, destined to heat homes, generate electricity, and make chemicals.

3D-printed projects are popping up like crazy, but a 3D-printed battery the size of a grain of sand that could potentially power a laptop takes the cake.

Duncan Graham Rowe: Prototype harvests radiowaves from TV, radio and other mobiles.

An animated guide to the different energy sources that power our nation.

The world’s thirst for oil could be nearing a peak. That is bad news for producers, excellent for everyone else.