Recently I wrote about the launch of supercharger stations in California for the Tesla Model S sedan. For owners of this vehicle it meant they could drive throughout California with the assurance that they could do a quick top up of their EV car’s battery. The initial network ha

Imagine never having to change the battery in your watch or calculator. You no longer have to. Move over batteries, a new nano-based source of energy is about to enter the marketplace. The device is called the BOLT (one can be seen next to the U.S. quarter in the image below). It is a

Technology played a critical role in the news events of this week beginning with the crudely-fashioned, low tech, pressure-cooker bombs planted at the finish line of the Boston Marathon and the mayhem and death they wrought, followed by the technology of our communication age uncoveri

The Velkess Flexible Flywheel promises energy storage technology at a “radically lower cost.” Think of a house with solar panels on the roof. During the day the house receives enough energy from the Sun to power the lights, heat, air conditioning and appliances in the hous

I know it is April 1 and the traditional day for publishing a nonsense or “non-science” article. But this is not one of them. So no April Fools. Two chemistry professors, Curtis Berlinguette and Simon Trudel, at the University of Calgary have published a paper in the journ

I have called for a Manhattan Project effort on the part of the leading economies of the world to tackle the issue of weaning ourselves from fossil fuel dependency. Is $2 billion what I had in mind? No, far from it! But at least it’s a belated start, that is if it gets approved.

The MIT Technology Review has put together its list of 50 candidates representing innovative companies that will have a telling affect on the world this year and in years to come. Each company on the list has been chosen because it has either created a new market or challenged leaders

Some time ago I wrote about an abandoned open pit mine at Marmora, Ontario, northeast of where I live in Toronto. I have visited this site, seen in the picture below, on many occasion when traveling from Toronto to Eastern Ontario. It is truly an awesome experience to drive to the edg

  This morning it was hard not to notice the coverage on Keystone in light of the Sunday protest by environmentalists on the Mall and in front of the White House in Washington, DC. I do not envy President Obama one bit as he wrestles with a decision to say  YES or NO to build the

By 2017 hydrogen-powered electric vehicles (EVs) will be on the road using fuel cell technology jointly developed by Ford, Nissan and Daimler. The three major automobile manufacturers are equal partners in a new joint venture to make the fuel cell EV a reality by that date. They join