Energy and Climate Change

The only debate left is what to do about climate change, not whether it exists.

He labeled those who denied the evidence of climate change as "shoddy scientists and extreme ideologues."

"Most polymers don’t mix with salt, but this one did," says grad student and head researcher Dominica Wong. "And it was nonflammable."

Nuclear fusion is the energy source of the stars.

Currently seeking funding through Indiegogo, Rawlemon is an oddly beautiful eyeball-shaped lens, that uses refraction to concentrate sunlight with minimal need for tracking.

Batteries, long the poor cousin to computer chips in research-obsessed Silicon Valley, are now the rage.

"We should have left well enough alone, we should have listened to John Wesley Powell in the first place, we should have limited settlement on arid lands." It would have said, "We shoulda, we shoulda, we shoulda. …"

Data centers, those large warehouses packed with servers to support the storing and transferring of digital information, consume between 1.7 percent and 2.2 percent of all power generated in the U.S., according to a 2011 report

"It’s coming, this is the next wave, and from what some of the manufacturers are saying, it’s an even better bet than some of the alternatives already on the market."

Coke reflects a growing view among American business leaders and mainstream economists who see global warming as a force that contributes to lower gross domestic products, higher food and commodity costs, broken supply chains and increased financial risk.