Currently, scientists appear to be primarily looking at reducing the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide in order to control the amount of atmospheric heating the earth is experiencing.

While this approach tackles the problem head on, perhaps we should also be looking at ways of limiting the amount of atmospheric heating we are presently receiving from [...]

Until now, solar power has been a daytime-only energy source, because storing extra solar energy for later use is prohibitively expensive and grossly inefficient. MIT researchers have now hit on a simple, inexpensive, highly efficient process for storing solar energy.

Requiring nothing but abundant, non-toxic natural materials, this discovery could unlock the most potent, carbon-free energy [...]