Category Archives: Energy

Climate disasters fuel only a small boost in green energy investments

Posted on July 19, 2019 by Amber Dance

In the wake of devastating floods in Germany in 2013, some affected householders recognized the connection between extreme weather and climate change and sought out green energy sources, according to analyses of insurance payouts and Internet searches conducted by … Continue reading →

Journal Club: Ocean wave power generator gets boost from optics insights

Posted on September 24, 2018 by Adam Mann

Engineers have long dreamed of tapping into the vast quantities of renewable energy available in the motion of ocean waves, but designing apparatuses to harness such power efficiently has so far proven difficult. Borrowing a technique from optical physics, a … Continue reading →