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With wages increasing and strikes engulfing the country, the massive cheap labor force that has helped fuel China’s economic boom by underselling its competitors may be coming to  an end, reports suggest. […]

Albert Bartlett might have been another obscure physics professor had he not put together a now famous lecture entitled "Arithmetic, Population and Energy" in 1969. The lecture, available broadly on the internet, […]

Motor group AAA reports the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline for Wednesday was $3.50, down more than 30 cents from the same time last year. Refiners are starting […]

What will the world economy be like ten years from now? Or fifty years from now? Is it something that we can forecast by looking at the past, assuming that past tends […]

A group of Australian engineers has ‘re-invented’ the steam engine and combined it with solar thermal energy to deliver a cheap solar storage solution. What’s more, it works on the distributed level, […]

The bad news keeps coming for coal. The post ‘The Bottom Has Just Dropped Out Of The Market’: Government’s Latest Coal Auction Attracts Lowest Bid In 15 Years appeared first on ThinkProgress. […]

There has been a lot of cross-talk over the last couple of years about how much methane leaks from the natural gas production and distribution system. Most of what has been said […]

Everyone knows energy storage is the key to unlocking renewable energy’s full potential, right? Well, not always. Utility-scale batteries make sense for storage from large solar power systems, but not wind farms, […]

US manufacturer’s sounded alarm bells last week with the approval of a fourth liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility, this time on the East coast at Cove Point Maryland. At issue is […]

Score one for wind power. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, wind is helping to cut the need for baseload power in a big chunk of the country . The government’s official energy analysts said the […]