Shimon Peres, the President of Israel helped launch a new solar farm at Kibbutz Yavne this week. The farm uses concentrating solar power to generate electricity and hot water. President Peres said at the launching ceremony, “It is a natural way to fight terror because the oil-producing countries of Iran and Venezuela destroy our lives by [...]

Poor Mr. Polar Bear. When he’s not jumping from melting ice chunk to ice chunk trying desperately not to drown, he’s avoiding the floating Russian nuclear power stations and their potential toxic waste. You read that correctly, fellow Net denizens. Coming soon, Mr. Polar Bear and his brethren will be sharing real estate with a [...]

The image shows a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park, Montana, a site where bacteria containing chlorosomes can be found in the brightly colored mats. At the upper left is a thin-section electron micrograph of the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum, showing chlorosomes along the periphery of the cells as light-colored ovals. The next image [...]

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s plan to create one of state’s largest solar photovoltaic plants was approved by the city’s Board of Supervisors. San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors Tuesday passed a proposal giving clearance to Recurrent Energy to Construct a 5 megawatt solar photovoltaic plant and sell energy to the city at a cost of [...]

A new study shows that wind farms and nuclear power plants are substantially better for avian wildlife than fossil-fueled power stations. One could be tempted to think, after reading the more than 600 studies about wind farms and the deaths of birds and bats read by this author the past year, that the evidence linking [...]