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China to build world’s first “artificial sun”

A full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, which aims to generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy, will be built in March…

Spray-On Solar-Power Cells Are True Breakthrough

Scientists have invented a plastic solar cell that can turn the sun’s power into electrical energy, even on a cloudy…

Campaigners storm the citadel of the 4X4

Workers at Land Rover’s Solihull production plant were left choking on their early morning tea yesterday when 30 Greenpeace activists…

Biophile: Iceland the first country to try abandoning gasoline

Iceland has energy to spare, and the small country has found a cutting-edge way to reduce its oil dependency. Volcanoes…

Turbines to stop global warming?

A researcher at the University of Alberta has come up an odd scheme to reduce the effects of global warming…

Greenland melt ‘speeding up’

The meltdown of Greenland’s ice sheet is speeding up, satellite measurements show. Data from a US space agency (Nasa) satellite…

Offshore wind could power entire USA

There is as much wind power potential (900,000 megawatts) off the coasts of the USA as the current capacity of…