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Lutz Wiese of Vattenfall power company refuels a hydrogen-powered Mercedes at a filling station in Berlin. Vatenfall is a partner in the world's first direct wind-hydrogen power plant, in northern Germany. Using wind-generated electricity to create hydrog

The car of the future — the very near future — might be driven by the wind

Technology

How do you balance the ebbs and flows of wind and solar power to use it when and where it’s most needed? Turn it into hydrogen and use it to drive cars.

Solar power production has grown more than 25 times over the last decade in Germany, spurred largely by big incentives for small producers to get into the market. But sunshine and wind power are intermittent, so engineers and others are looking for ways t

How do you catch the sun to make electricity at night? This German inventor has an answer.

Environment