Way back in 1982 in USA  I had a chance to discuss with the old botanist Laetsch  who published scholarly research paper detailing structure of chloroplasts in C4 plant using electron…

Renewable energy for climate change mitigation andsustainable development. Ashwani Kumar The continued use of fossil fuels willrequire a significant amount of carbon dioxide to be removed by either…

Whether you agree or not, the funding machine for solar and wind energy is in motion and it is hard to stop - look at the debate over ending ethanol subsidies. One way to make an informed policy…

Politicians do not really understand science, they are in the policy business.  And environmental activists do not understand science, they are in the advocacy business.  Both claim to love…

Global climate change has stimulated efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. Photosynthetic organisms use solar energy to generate reducing equivalents and incorporate atmospheric CO2 into organic molecules…

A cold turkey approach to energy is a ridiculous idea endorsed only by the truly militant but it is clear we have to migrate from high-pollution solution fossil fuels while science advances on energy…

We've been skeptical of the Three Gorges Dam project for a number of years.   It isn't that dams are a bad idea, they are a great idea, it's just the the ecologists who endorsed the thing…

This is totally cool! Scotland's leading marine energy test centre has opened its doors to a new generation of developers to test prototype machines, one of which is aiming to harness wave energy…

Could the key to our hydrogen future be a black stain on rocks? Using sunlight to split water in a cheap, efficient way is the goal of true renewable energy that won't involve ghastly wind vanes or…

Oil has been the strategic asset since it was discovered.  The price of oil reflects everything from the underlying value of the US dollar, to the general level of industrial economic activity…