Power/Energy

Into Deep Ice

What does the future hold for Earth's ice? A group of British researchers seeks answers in the bowels of a glacier

Stricter U.S. Gas Standards Stalled

Bipartisan opposition defeats bipartisan efforts to strengthen CAFE regulations

Changing Climate, Changing Language

Climate Emergency

Former U.S. vice president Al Gore stumps for the environment

Hydrogen on Track

Trains and industrial equipment now, cars later

A U.S. Energy Bill at Last

Electric Idyll

Idaho's major utility has resisted deregulation and is doing just fine

Energy Tangle In China

Rolling blackouts tie production in knots

Technology Offers Solutions to the Current Power Crisis

A U.S. Energy Bill at Last

Nuclear Testing Goes Virtual

The Atomic Fortress That Time Forgot

The world's first plutonium-making reactor is an Atomic Age landmark - and it faces an uncertain future

Q&A: Paul G. Richards, Nuclear Arms Seismologist

When North Korea detonated a nuclear device, he helped to measure it

Q&A: Richard L. Garwin, Expert on Nuclear Weapons

Is North Korea getting ready to stage a second test?

Juice From Solar Concentrate

Interdisciplinary team in New York state devises new type of photovoltaic collector

The Greening of GE

Alternative energy, once the province of do-it-yourselfers and scrappy technology developers,is suddenly Big Business

Total Recall

A Microsoft researcher is determined to record everything about his life. Everything

Loser: A Foggy Notion

Sprawling solar power plant soaks German Consumers

Lighting Up the Andes

A Canadian couple is lighting up remote villages in Bolivia using white LEDs, solar panels, and a little help from their friends

Winner: Adrenaline for the Grid

Novel superconducting device provides essential voltage support

Getting a Grip on the Grid

Widespread electric outages are not merely a fluke but a symptom-of poor policy and management

Taming the Power Grid

Energy Team Readies Major Transmission Study

Does secrecy imply important findings?

Energy Woes

Reports from Cheney task force and national labs present sharply different visions of U.S. energy future

Winner: Adrenaline for the Grid

Novel superconducting device provides essential voltage support

Winner: Carbon Takeoff

With a radical carbon-fiber composite wing, Boeing is pushing the envelope of aviation design in its new 787 jetliner

Loser: A Foggy Notion

Sprawling solar power plant soaks German Consumers

Winner: Super Charged

A tiny South Korean company is out to make capacitors powerful enough to propel the next generation of hybrid-electric cars

Winning and Losing In High-Stakes Technology