You might think your R-19 insulation is keeping your home cozy, but there's a shocking reality hiding in your walls. Thermal bridging significantly contributes to heat loss and greatly impacts a ...

Many governments see energy efficiency as a key decarbonization strategy. In fact, some scenarios assume efficiency can drive approximately 40% of emissions reductions under the Paris climate accord.

Inflation, housing affordability, and healthcare costs dominate public discourse, but energy burden is an under-reported ...

An Environmental Protection Agency plan to eliminate its Energy Star offices would end a decades-old program that gave consumers a choice to buy environmentally friendly refrigerators, dishwashers and ...

Upgrades will cut carbon pollution, but even with tax credits, it can be difficult to save money. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript ...

The introduction of a nanometric germanium oxide layer drastically improved device performance and stability. As the global demand for clean energy accelerates, solar power continues to attract ...

If Tennessee residents enjoy relatively cheap electricity rates because of the Tennessee Valley Authority, then why are so many burdened with high power bills? That's the question at the heart of a ...

An aerogel material that is more than 99% transparent to light and is an excellent thermal insulator has been developed by Ivan Smalyukh and colleagues at the University of Colorado Boulder in the US.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the economics of AI. In the rush to power the AI boom, the global data center footprint is being pushed to its ...

Unsurprisingly, the news that China’s DeepSeek AI had leapfrogged competitors triggered an investor sell-off. It dragged down Nvidia, the American chipmaker powering the AI revolution, as well as ...

The AI boom is driving an explosive surge in computational demands and reshaping the landscape of technology, infrastructure, and innovation. One of the biggest barriers to widespread AI deployment ...