The concept of beaming power to Earth from orbiting satellites dates back to the 1960s so why is there still an energy crisis? E&T investigates.
Artificial intelligence will soon be helping smart meters run your home, reports E&T.
A superconducting cable with a record-breaking performance signals a technology on the brink of commercialisation, reports E&T.
Water shortages are predicted to be the catalyst for 21st Century conflicts as E&T explains.
The Arctic region has long been viewed as a huge resource for oil and gas but the harsh conditions and tricky economics have made it unappealing, but as E&T reveals that is now changing.
Huge platforms in the Arctic waters off Russia's east coast are defying the elements to produce vast amounts of valuable oil and gas as E&T reports.
Reliable and cost effective storage is key to keeping the lights on in the renewable world, so E&T visited a Cambridge company that thinks they have found a solution.
New information on how biofuels burn is paving the way to greener transport fuels, reports E&T.
As BP works with its partners to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion and sinking of Deepwater Horizon, E&T examines the task at hand and the measures being deployed.
The current focus for the car of the future is plug-in electric vehicles, but there is still a lot of support for hydrogen fuel cells to be part of the solution as E&T reveals.
In the continued drive to combat climate change most of the attention has been on the growth of renewable power, but as E&T discovers the transmission and distribution network is key to reducing greenhouse emissions and without the implementation of a smart grid it will not deliver.
To many opponents of a renewed nuclear future, the lack of a coherent long-term plan to manage waste is the biggest stick to beat the industry with. The announcement late last year that the US had abandoned its plans for a deep geological storage repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain - a much vaunted solution - has only created an atmosphere of uncertainty.
E&T spoke to Steve Frishman, a geologist at the head of the Agency for Nuclear Projects office at the Office of the Governor of the State of Nevada and a man who has been involved in the Yucca Mountain project since the beginning, about why the nuclear waste repository has failed to meet expectations.
In the rush to build more nuclear power stations, are nations worldwide ignoring proven cancer risks, asks E&T.
Can efforts to make Antarctic research stations energy self-sufficient work? E&T puts on a polar coat to find out.
The answer to peak power problems has always been storage, but that has proven to be a difficult feat to achieve. As E&T discovers, the answer may be found in ice.
After several months of fruitless subsea efforts, BP appears to have finally plugged the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion. This E&T video documents the events.
From Abbey Road to prehistoric zoology, E&T videos span the engineering and technology community.
Increasingly, we live in a time that is obsessively motivated towards alternative energies, as global warming and its effects begin to dominate the world’s collective consciousness.
Power commentary
Britain on brink of energy crisis 9 February 2010
Britain is on the brink of a major energy crisis. It's a crisis against which the credit crunch and recession could pale in comparison. Our security of supply is becoming less secure by the day, but we have consistently failed to take decisive action.
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