Environmental problems are created by drilling oil wells and extracting fluids because the petroleum pumped up from deep reservoir rocks is ...

The prospect of reducing the world’s dependence on fossil fuels is problematic. Alternative energy industries, such as nuclear energy, hydro...

Fuel Cell, device in which the energy of a chemical reaction is converted directly into electricity. Unlike a battery, a fuel cell does not ...

Solar energy does not refer to a single energy technology but rather covers a diverse set of renewable energy technologies that are powered ...

In 2001 a total of 435 nuclear plants operated worldwide. Another 35 reactors were under construction. Eighteen countries generate at least ...