For more than a century, engineers have chased new ways to turn the planet’s natural motions into usable power, from tides to ...

Two decades after the Chernobyl accident, Tony Goddard believes that nuclear power must continue to be used to generate electricity Exactly 20 years ago this month, on 21 April 1986, workers at the ...

Pop quiz: Of all the different ways of generating electricity or getting things (like cars) to do work, which of them don’t use energy from the sun? Fossil fuels? Nope. Millions of years ago, primeval ...

In physics, power is the rate at which energy is transferred, used, or transformed. The unit of power is the joule per second (J/s), known as the watt (in honor of James Watt, the eighteenth-century ...

Despite its environmentally unfriendly image, nuclear power is firmly back on the world's energy agenda thanks to the need to cut carbon-dioxide emissions. Paul Norman, Andrew Worrall and Kevin ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. We're about halfway through the academic term at Union College, where I ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The strange behavior of quantum physics might seem too unpredictable to rely on for our energy ...