Art Rosenfeld’s first stab at energy efficiency did not go smoothly: On a Friday night during the 1973 oil crisis, he tried to save electricity by turning off his office mates’ lights — but could not ...

The cost of the Energy Ball is between $3,500 and $7,000, not including installation. "There is a lot of interest worldwide," Aurik said. "Everybody likes the design. It looks like an art piece." ...

Best of all it’s called the Energy Ball: the fun name is an added bonus. Most modern wind turbines utilize a flat three-blade design, wherein the head of the windmill is directed into drafts by ...

The SOCCKET is one of those simple-yet-effective ideas that takes something as basic and commonplace as a soccer ball and “bends it like Beckham” to the task of improving energy usage and the ...

By using a popcorn-ball design -- tiny kernels clumped ... and more than double the efficiency of converting solar energy to electricity. The findings were presented in New Orleans at the national ...

The new system is as much as 30% more accurate than today’s state-of-the-art ... renewable energy will be available, the nation’s power grids are better able to integrate that electricity ...

[Related: Scientists think we can get 90 percent clean energy by 2035.] Artist and architect Riccardo Mariano originally entered the idea, called the Arco del Tiempo (Arch of Time), in a Land Art ...