From wood-burning stoves to coal-fired factories to the gas and oil of the Automobile Age, the history of energy in the United States is marked by many shifts. Visually portraying these transitions ...

Is all the hope placed in renewables an illusion? A worker in a coal yard in the Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh, India, 2021. In universities, labs, corporate research departments, think tanks, ...

Vaclav Smil rarely agrees to interviews. Too many in the media have portrayed him as a tool of Big Oil, he says — because he insists on pointing out how deeply dependent humanity is on fossil fuels ...

Joshua Loucks is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. Katie Tubb is a policy analyst for the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has spent $57.5 billion over the past 30 years researching and developing clean energy technologies. In all that time the nation’s energy portfolio has barely budged.

The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) has been a leader in energy engineering and innovation from the earliest days of renewable energy technology. From the establishment of our Nuclear ...

Yesterday, a lawyer for the family of a 14-year-old girl who died after drinking Monster energy drinks revealed that the FDA had linked them to at least five deaths during the last year. But Monster ...

If you haven’t read Pulitzer prize-winning Richard Rhodes’ new book, ‘Energy: A Human History’, you just don’t know how intricately the last 400 years of human history is intertwined with the ...

Green technology has no history — which isn’t to say that it has no past. For many Americans the subject sprang into being a few years ago, maybe around the time the Al Gore documentary An ...

Energy, the new book from acclaimed author and journalist Richard Rhodes, starts off not with a scientist or inventor, but with a notable name from a different field: William Shakespeare. The Bard of ...

Is all the hope placed in renewables an illusion? In universities, labs, corporate research departments, think tanks, and intergovernmental organizations, thousands of smart, qualified experts are ...