As energy use rises and the planet warms, you might have dreamed of an energy source that works 24/7, rain or shine, quietly powering homes, industries and even entire cities without the ups and downs ...

Eric Mauchan’s Cape Cod-style house in Framingham, Massachusetts, does not have central air conditioning. So when the summer heat bears down, his four window AC units, two dehumidifiers and fans that ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Geothermal resources are one of the oldest sources of renewable energy, used for heating for thousands of years, and growing in importance for power generation. Gathering the heat from underground ...

The massive amounts of thick, hot orange lava spewing from the Reykjanes volcano in Iceland reflects the massive amounts of heat and energy in the earth’s core. That’s heat and energy that geothermal ...

When I arrived in Reykjavík, Iceland, last March, a gravel barrier, almost thirty feet at its highest point, had been constructed to keep lava from the Reykjanes volcano from inundating a major ...

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If you’ve ever been to a hot spring or geyser or volcano, you’ve seen the future of energy. Earth’s innards are hot — really ...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has given the go-ahead for a major geothermal energy project in Utah. The agency announced final approval for Fervo Energy’s Cape Geothermal Power Project in Beaver ...

Jasmina Burek, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, is studying the life cycle of geothermal energy networks that are designed to heat and cool a mix of ...