Do you find waiting for your bus to arrive a drain on your energy? You may feel a little differently now as London and San Fransisco each unveil solar-powered bus shelters that can generate enough electricity to power your home!
The London bus shelter—the first of its kind in the UK—was constructed using transparent photovoltaic glass capable of converting solar energy into electricity. The electricity generated by the shelter will power signage and other elements of the local infrastructure.

How did you celebrate Earth Day 2016? Around the world trees were planted, rivers and streams cleaned, and countless events were held with the united goal of ensuring our planet's health and humanity's future.
Impressively, Solar Impulse 2 joined the day of tribute by crossing the Pacific Ocean on the 9th leg of its journey to circumnavigate the globe without one drop of fossil fuel!

It's the size of a desk and can power 10,000 homes! Looks like there's a new renewable energy super hero in town...the 10 kilowatt watt supercritical carbon dioxide turbine!

Dude, where's my plane? Canadian company Hempearth creates the world's first airplane made from and fueled by hemp!

The race for viable tobacco based jet fuel is now smoking hot! In fact Boeing's Project Solaris, and Virginia company Tyton Bioenergy are each so close to lift off with their fuel products that we may be flying leafy green tobacco powered flights within months.

It may sound coney, but Australian researchers have developed nanocones, a nanostructure material that increases solar efficiency by 15%!

The team of scientists at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology announced the development of the nanocone, which is a type of nanomaterial that boosts the efficiency of photovoltaics by increasing their light absorbing abilities.

What does man's carbon footprint into the atmosphere and the cement/concrete sidewalk beneath your feet have in common? A lot it seems, and a team of Researchers at UCLA have a plan to capture carbon from power plant smokestacks and use it to create a new building material -- CO2NCRETE -- that would be fabricated using 3D printers!

Remember your mom telling you to make sure you chewed your food throughly? It's seems that mother did know best since it turns out that chewing can do much more then power your metabolism. Drs Aidin Delnavaz and Jeremie Voix, mechanical engineers at the Ecole de Technologie Superieure in Canada have discovered that the energy harnessed from chewing can be used to vastly increase available energy needed for cochlear implants and could power some small devices to boot! Chewing can produce about 580 joules of energy in a day and utilizing that energy brings some exciting possibilities.

What does the accompanying image bring to mind? Layers of carved chocolate? How about a block of clay waiting to become a piece of art? Bet you didn't guess it's the future of 24 hour winter warmth thanks to the guys at MIT and a new exciting little molecule that going to change the way we store solar heat!

We all know that the sun is an endless source of energy, but it's only available on sunny days. For Mr. Sun to provide all our needs there must be a better way to save it up for use during nighttime and stormy days.

Stamping your feet when there's no Wi-Fi access around? Professor Harald Hass wants to show you the light and free you from that Wi-Fi hunt with Li-Fi!

LiFi is the use of the visible light portion of the electromagnetic spectrum to transmit information at very high speeds. (100 times faster then Wi-Fi.) While Wi-Fi uses traditional radio frequency (RF) signals to transmit data. Sound good so far?