About Tina Casey
Tina Casey Tina Casey specializes in military and corporate sustainability, advanced technology, emerging materials, biofuels, and water and wastewater issues. Tina’s articles are reposted frequently on Reuters, Scientific American, and many other sites. Views expressed are her own. Follow her on Twitter @TinaMCasey and Google+.
November 6th, 2014 | by Tina Casey
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working to lower solar energy costs with a metal-organic framework material, aka the "Tinker Toy" material
November 5th, 2014 | by Tina Casey
Now that the Army's ambitious Net Zero initiative has passed the pilot stage with flying colors, planners have been gearing up for the next steps.
November 4th, 2014 | by Tina Casey
A research team from Rice University has achieved an energy storage breakthrough based on a new, relatively cheap and simple method for manufacturing Mo
November 3rd, 2014 | by Tina Casey
The US Army is testing an "electric backpack" that uses a spring-based frame to harvest kinetic energy from the motion of your hips as you walk
November 2nd, 2014 | by Tina Casey
We've been keeping tabs on the plasmonics scene for a while and we just got wind of an interesting new development from the Netherlands in partnership with Caltech.
October 31st, 2014 | by Tina Casey
The proposed Desert Renewable Energy and Conservation Plan (DRECP) "Preferred Alternative" throttles clean energy development in California...or not
October 30th, 2014 | by Tina Casey
This article is part of the ‘Think Further’ series, sponsored by Fred Alger Management, Inc. For more ‘Think Further’ content
October 30th, 2014 | by Tina Casey
FCEV unicorn watch: The US Energy Dept. has just launched a new $1 million R&D prize to promote home-scale hydrogen for fuel cell electric vehicles
October 29th, 2014 | by Tina Casey
The US Army is forging ahead with its Net Zero Vision and the US Navy is embarking on a "Green City" net zero energy project with Vietnam
October 28th, 2014 | by Tina Casey
At less than $8 per shot, Cree's new low cost LED light bulbs coax warm, soft light from cold, hard technology (and they're shatter-resistant, too)
October 27th, 2014 | by Tina Casey
A new report from the Post Carbon Institute provides more evidence that the oil and gas fracking express will jump the tracks sooner rather than later
October 26th, 2014 | by Tina Casey
Energy Department awards $4 million to SolarWorld, aka the company leading the charge for solar tariffs on subsidized imports from China and Taiwan
October 25th, 2014 | by Tina Casey
A new 3D-printed battery prototype from the aptly named company Graphene 3D lab embeds "nanoplatelets" of graphene in polymer filaments for 3D printing