The solar panel brands SunPower Maxeon and REC top CNET’s list of best solar panels. Both brands of solar panel are highly efficient and come with strong production guarantees over a 25-year span. Both brands are available from multiple major solar installation companies. If you’re interested in going…

This year, we have seen all the hype around AI Deep Learning. With recent innovations, deep learning demonstrated its usefulness in performing tasks such as image recognition, voice recognition, price forecasting, across many industries. It’s easy to overestimate deep learning’s capabilities and pretend it’s the magic…

In February 2017, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted through low clouds, pushing a Dragon capsule toward orbit. Among the spare parts and food, an important piece of scientific cargo, called SAGE III, rumbled upward. Once installed on the International Space Station, SAGE would peer back…

Alt-aviation wizard Burt Rutan set out to design a plane that could haul rockets to the edge of space. Then he persuaded Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen to build a dual-fuselage beast with a wingspan longer than a football field. On December 13, 2011, Paul Allen, the…

Facebook on July 21 said the first flight of its full-scale Aquila solar-powered aircraft designed for regional internet connectivity was a success, lasting longer than expected despite an unspecified “structural failure” just before landing. The 96-minute flight, conducted in Yuma, Arizona, confirmed the validity of Aquila’s…

‘The future is clean. The future is you. The future is now.’ In the dim pre-dawn light at Al Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi this morning, history was made. As pilot Bertrand Piccard eased the wheels of Solar Impulse 2 down onto the tarmac, it…

Facebook and Microsoft are laying a massive cable across the middle of the Atlantic. Dubbed MAREA—Spanish for “tide”—this giant underwater cable will stretch from Virginia to Bilbao, Spain, shuttling digital data across 6,600 kilometers of ocean. Providing up to 160 terabits per second of bandwidth—about 16…

Hey there! Nice to meet you, I’m from the future. I live in the 26th century, deep in the Anthropocene Era. Humanity is officially the greatest climate driver on Earth, and has been for awhile. It’s a dubious honor if you could see the planet from…

“Hydrogen and air travel are a perfect match,” Hugo Eckener once said. Well, we don’t know if he actually spoke those words, but it’s the kind of thing the chairman of the Zeppelin Company probably said all the time, at least until enthusiasm for the combination…

A couple of years ago, Steven Weissman, an energy lawyer at the University of California-­Berkeley, started to shop around for solar panels for his house. It seemed like an environmental no-brainer. For zero down, leading residential provider SolarCity would install panels on his roof. The company…