Over the almost 70-year pursuit of the fusionary holy grail, it's been fairly common for scientists working on the problem to say that they're about 30 years away from achieving a power plant based on fusion.

History tells us there are no winners in wars over oil, but there are certainly a lot of losers. History also tells us that we are smart enough to innovate our way to a more sustainable future.

A 30-year war for energy preeminence? You wouldn't wish it even on a desperate planet. But that's where we're headed and there's no turning back.

The future belongs to those seeking to integrate green and growth. This is how our national interests will be secured. This is where jobs will be created. This is where our national security can be best realized.

While Obama's energy blueprint calls for putting many well-established technologies into place, research continues on several cutting-edge energy-related technologies.

While nuclear energy in an ideal world would be an attractive option, reality is uglier. The problems greatly exceed the benefits. We need to shelve nuclear power as a viable option, and devote our attention to renewables.

At first glance, a car powered by super plentiful hydrogen sounds pretty good. The newly unveiled Urban Car emits less than 30 grams per kilometer of carbon dioxide.

Imagine a cheap and plentiful resource that could one day fuel our cars and clean up wastewater at the same time. Dr. Gerardine Botte, Director of the...

American car makers and the government didn't take the Japanese seriously with their funny little, cheap-to-run, quality cars. Ditto with the Koreans, Toyota and Honda.

How ideal and opportune, then, for Detroit and the Obama Administration to partner on a new pathway for our future: initiate an Apollo-like project to develop the DMFC.

Light years ahead of the US, some 150 homes in the housing communities in Maebaru City, of southern Japan's Fukuoka Prefecture, are running on hydrogen fuel cells.

The internal combustion engine is approaching obsolescence, and other concepts such as Shai Agassi's Better Place electric vehicle network model a more promising future.

BlackLight Power (stock symbol BLP) announced that its Houdini-like energy plan has found a buyer. BlackLight Power Inc. today announced its first co...

The development of sensible next generation biofuels will take a decade, so, in a sense, we are already too late. But the timing is perfect for change, so let's do it the right way this time.

I really wanted this thing to be awesome, but it's way cooler on paper than on the floor. I ended up trying it out at home with my friend and we were sorely disappointed.

Hello fellow "Greenies"- I'm Stefanie Michaels. I am also known as Adventure Girl from Adventure Girl.com. I am excited to be a part of Huffington Pos...

A few commenters were skeptical of the specific technology Jack was flouting. Totally fair. Interestingly, there was a new story in the New York Times just today about it.

We must stop putting carbon into the air in the first place -- not take it out afterwards -- and we must start moving towards a carbon-free chemical fuel -- hydrogen -- now to begin veering away from catastrophe.

This is the fifth and final article of my HuffPo series on finding an optimal solution for Peak Oil and Global Warming.

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