As anyone who's ever witnessed a bolt of lightning streaking through the sky knows, the air around us can be filled with an astonishing amount of energy. A new study shows that some of this energy can ...

Ford and Duke Energy are planning to use F-150 Lightning batteries as backup energy storage to conserve energy use on the grid. Duke Energy, one of the largest utility companies with over 7.4 million ...

After Ford launched the F-150 Lightning and announced deliveries in the next few days, we learned about a curious situation at the event: a power outage. At this point, we have no idea if it was on ...

Lightning Systems has an all-electric powertrain for the popular Ford F-550 chassis cab and a new energy division to charge it up. The Colorado-based designer and manufacturer of zero-emission ...

Two University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists have discovered a new type of "whistler," an electromagnetic wave that carries a substantial amount of lightning energy to the Earth's magnetosphere. The ...

A carbon fiber tip offering lightning strike protection for wind turbine blades has been developed by researchers at the U.S. DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The blade tip, which is being ...

This new method doesn't require a lot of energy, nor does it need any fossil fuels or expensive raw material, and it has a significantly lower environmental impact – the latter being hugely important ...

Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered that cosmic-ray showers seem to play a pivotal role in triggering lightning flashes. The research is published in the journal JGR ...