Can You Have Too Much Solar Energy?

Germany’s little-guy suppliers are destabilizing big power companies.

Boxcar Energy

Brilliant new strategies for storing power. No. 4: First you roll a train uphill …

Blue Sky Thinking

The entirely serious plan to collect solar energy by spaceship and beam it back to Earth with lasers.

Unexpectedly Amazing Carbon-Based Energy Form

A lab “accident” may solve your annoying battery problems.

Can Wind Turbines Make You Sick?

A new syndrome appears to be highly contagious.

Spinning Sewage into Gold

A little electrochemical magic puts power where it’s needed.

The Body Electric

How much energy can you extract from a dance?

The Director of Evolution

How Frances Arnold mutates DNA and breeds strange, new, and useful creatures.

Smooth Sailing for Offshore Wind?

Two firms are planning to start construction off the East Coast within the year.