16-02-03 British energy giant BP is reporting its annual profits have fallen by 51 percent to 5.9 billion US dollars through this past year. 2015年英国石油公司年利率下跌51%，达到59亿美元。 It represents BP's biggest loss in over 20 years. The company is attr...

16-02-03 New tools for harvesting wind energy may soon look less like giant windmills and more like tiny leafless trees. A project at The Ohio State University is testing whether high-tech objects that look a bit like artificial trees can generate renewable...

16-01-31 Imagine a polymer with removable parts that can deliver something to the environment and then be chemically regenerated to function again. Or a polymer that can lift weights, contracting and expanding the way muscles do. These functions require poly...

16-01-27 Energy harvesting is emerging as a viable method for electronic devices to pull ambient energy from their surrounding environment and convert it into electrical energy for stored power. This coveted technology has the potential to serve as an altern...

15-12-28 Beijing has closed more than 320 polluting enterprises so far this year. 截止目前，北京今年已经关闭了320多家污染企业。 At least 150 kinds of industries have been affected. Even state-owned factories with long histories in the capital have been shutt...

15-12-28 Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have made advances toward affordable photoelectrochemical (PEC) production of hydrogen. NREL's scientists took a different approach to the PEC process, which uses sol...

15-12-19 There is a new substance that is harder than diamond. It's called Q-carbon, and it was created by researchers at North Carolina State University. 北卡罗莱纳州立大学的研究人员研发出一种名为Q-碳的新物质，其硬度比钻石还高。 The only place it may be fou...

15-12-04 Bill Gates has pulled together a multinational band of investors to put billions into clean energy. 比尔盖茨联合了多国投资者，将向清洁能源领域投资数十亿美元。 The Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist is set to announce his latest endeavor, the Br...

15-11-24 While driving in Pennsylvania, a family caught up to an Amish carriage. The owner of the carriage obviously had a sense of humor, because attached to the back of the carriage was a hand printed sign: Energy efficient vehicle: Runs on oats and grass....

15-11-19 Peering into darkness can strike fear into the hearts of some, but a new space telescope will soon peer into the darkness of near space (within a few thousand light years of Earth). Scientists are using the telescope to seek answers related to the f...