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Energy & environment

Thomas Edison’s first village electric lighting system

Back on the rails

Natural networks have promise for cheap, flexible optoelectronics

The Engineer Q&A: Carbon Capture and Storage

Research aims to unify Smart Cities solutions in Milton Keynes

Shetland Composites to construct tidal turbine blades

Roll-to-roll process improves viability of spray on solar cells

Science 'personal priority' for Osborne

Direct approach: improving wind turbine drivetrain reliability

Chernobyl's giant shield takes shape

Spanish tidal turbine prototype installed at Orkney

Why we shouldn't write off marine energy