Daniel García is an Editor-in-Chief with strong expertise in structural work and engineering principles. He combines this technical foundation with deep knowledge of energy, spatial design, and emerging technologies, bringing a forward-thinking and analytical approach to editorial leadership.
Perovskite solar cells have spent years promising to reshape clean energy — their efficiency rivals silicon, and the materials are far cheaper to produce. Yet scaling…
Charging a battery directly with sunlight — no solar panel anywhere in the circuit — is something scientists have been chasing for a long time. The…
For decades, every wind turbine built to international safety standards has been engineered to survive the same fearsome scenario: a sudden 15 meters-per-second surge in wind…
For years, the working assumption in wind energy has been simple: sites that get more rain wear out turbine blades faster. More rain, more damage. It…
In the spring of 2024, engineers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory did something deliberately counterintuitive: they took a commercial 1.5 MW wind turbine, pitched all…
Wind farm engineers have spent years learning to deliberately point turbines away from the wind — a technique called wake steering — to coax more total…
Hundreds of meters above the ground, a large kite slices through the wind, its tether pulling taut to drive a generator below. It looks controlled —…
Kesterite solar cells have long been one of photovoltaics’ most appealing promises — built entirely from Earth-abundant, non-toxic elements, and theoretically capable of competing with mainstream…
Floating offshore wind grew fast — from a single full-scale prototype in 2009 to 88 MW of installed capacity by 2023. Then it stalled. Rising costs…
Floating wind turbines don’t just spin — they sway, surge, and rock with the ocean beneath them. Engineers have long treated that motion as an aerodynamic…
For more than 70 years, fusion researchers have followed the same basic sequence: compress the plasma first, then heat it to the extreme temperatures needed to…
At highway speeds, a wind turbine blade’s leading edge doesn’t glide through rain — it collides with it. Hundreds of droplets strike the same narrow strip…
For 35 days straight, Tokyo woke up to rain. From the final days of August through the last week of September 2026, the sky over central…
Beneath Southern California, two of the country’s most consequential fault systems have been quietly loading for generations. The San Andreas and San Jacinto faults together absorb…
A blacktip shark glides through shallow, sunlit waters off Palm Beach County, Florida — unhurried, with nothing visible nearby to disturb it. Then a low-frequency pulse…
For decades, the Colorado River has been the invisible backbone of the American West — the source of water and electricity for more than 40 million…
For decades, the Arctic melt season grew longer with near-clockwork reliability — earlier spring thaws, later autumn freezes, year after year. By 2010, the season had…
Green hydrogen — made by splitting water with renewable energy rather than burning natural gas — is widely seen as a cleaner fuel for the future.…
Yellowstone National Park pulls in four million visitors a year. People come for the geysers, the hot springs, the bison wandering across open meadows. From the…
Designing an offshore wind farm means making dozens of interconnected decisions before a single turbine is placed — which wind model to use, how to define…
When engineers plan a wind farm, they typically pull atmospheric data from right around turbine height — the zone where the blades will actually spin. In…
May is supposed to bring relief to Puerto Rico. The wet season arrives, the skies open up, and reservoirs begin to recover from the dry months…
Somewhere inside a high-performance computing cluster at the University of South Florida, an AI model spent months working through 1.2 million satellite images of the world’s…
Green hydrogen is clean in theory — and stubbornly expensive in practice. A big part of the problem is the rare, costly metal catalysts that current…
Spearhead-shaped and no bigger than a bacterial cell, they had been sitting in North Atlantic seafloor sediment for 97 million years. Scientists who studied these microscopic…
Abandoned oil wells may hold a second life as underground energy storage — and a Penn State study suggests trapped geothermal heat could make the whole…
Garlic peel — the papery skin most cooks brush straight into the trash — is generating up to 400 volts of electricity inside a laboratory in…
A day is not exactly 24 hours. Earth’s rotation drifts slightly — speeding up, slowing down — by a few milliseconds over decades. The difference is…
Off the northeast coast of Scotland, five turbines rise nearly 100 meters above the North Sea — the world’s first commercial floating offshore wind farm. A…
Tethered kites built for wind power can now map atmospheric turbulence at altitudes that radar masts and lidars have never reached — while generating electricity Hundreds…
Inside the hollow stems of young Macaranga trees in Malaysian Borneo, something was wrong. Researchers cutting open these tropical plants expected to find what has lived…
Africa has long been underestimated — even on world maps, where the continent appears roughly the size of North America when it’s actually far larger. The…
Solar thermoelectric generators have promised cheap, versatile electricity for decades — yet they still convert less than 1% of sunlight into power, while a standard rooftop…
Steel, concrete, months of heavy machinery — building a wind farm comes with a real carbon price tag before a single kilowatt reaches the grid. The…
Asia sits on just 4% of the world’s oil and gas reserves — yet the continent sends more than $300 billion a year out of the…
In remote coastal communities, the rhythm of daily life often runs on diesel — generators humming through the night, solar panels idled by overcast skies. Energy…
There’s no power grid in space. Every satellite operates the way a camper works in the woods — carrying only the energy it launched with, burning…
Swallowing a battery is a medical emergency. Unless, apparently, that’s exactly what the doctor ordered. MIT scientists have developed a pill-sized battery made from paper that…
Offshore wind turbines can steal power from each other — with losses reaching 38% and stretching 34 miles downwind. The U.S. is building thousands of offshore…
Renewable energy is expanding fast — and it still may not be enough to prevent a decades-long global power shortfall The world has spent decades arguing…
Rain is so ordinary it barely registers — drops hitting pavement, sliding down glass, pooling in gutters. Nobody thinks of it as a power source. But…
Between the strawberry rows and the solar panels, California farmers found a financial lifeline — selling electricity back to the grid from arrays placed on their…
The global race for clean energy dominance is no longer a future contest — it’s being settled now, technology by technology, gigawatt by gigawatt. China’s 15th…
When engineers at RheEnergise popped champagne in January, they weren’t celebrating a new mountain reservoir or a dammed alpine valley. They were marking 500 kilowatts of…
Fifteen hundred meters beneath the Pacific, a remote-controlled drill bit into the seafloor last week near one of the most volcanically active ridges on Earth. The…
Inside a University of Maryland lab, a fusion reactor cobbled together from salvaged hospital MRI scanners and repurposed glass beer bottles sits quietly at the center…
Indian scientists engineered concrete that captures CO₂ — and it’s stronger than the original Concrete is everywhere — under roads, inside bridges, running through the pipes…
Offshore wind farms reveal a new window into Atlantic current decline Beneath the Atlantic Ocean, an immense system of currents has been quietly moving heat from…
Solar panels in Colorado’s drought-stressed grasslands are boosting plant growth by up to 90 percent — and researchers say the drier the land gets, the stronger…
Rutgers researchers built an AI lookout for endangered whales Fewer than 370 North Atlantic right whales still swim the Atlantic — and until recently, the ships,…
