Many of the most important questions regarding energy use and energy’s role in the economy and the environment are long-term in nature. For example, understanding how energy use will change under cap-and-trade policy is a question with answers that depend strongly on the time frame in question. In...

December 16th 2009 saw internet search engine giant Google advance towards taking a big stake in the seemingly ever-burgeoning energy business sector with its formation of the Google Energy subsidiary. Parallel to the founding of the subsidiary, it also put in a request in conjunction with a federal...

There are currently a number of different ways to extract energy from water, both via traditional turbine propulsion as well as more advanced methods. Traditionally water has been the primary renewable energy source for people and has served as the basis for even rudimentary machinery for hundreds of...

Heat energy, also known as thermal energy or simply heat, is the result of the process of transferring energy from one particle to another through the the energy transfer process. This is usually done through direct transfer of the energy through kinetic contact or through radiated energy as in the case...

Cold fusion, commonly referred to as a “Low Energy Nuclear Reaction” (LENR), is a hypothesized process in which the fusion of atoms occurs at temperatures that are close to room temperature as opposed to those reactions that occur regularly in celestial bodies such as stars that operate at extremely...