Editor’s note: Storing power generated by any large-scale source would let utilities spend less fossil fuel and take advantage of renewable energy sources that produce on variable schedules. Hence, the importance of this news. The article comes from Rice University. Researchers at Rice University have refined silicon-based lithium-ion technology by literally crushing their previous work…

The insightful environmentalist says pollution is just a resource out of place. Now a Rice University professor wants to put that idea to use. The University has created a Green Carbon Center it says to bring the benefits offered by oil, gas, coal, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and other energy sources together in a way…