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A group of red balloons tied with white strings against a yellow background, with a large red pushpin floating among them.

The Iran War Has Cut Off Supply of a Gas the AI Industry Desperately Needs

A long outdoor escalator with a glass roof runs uphill between densely packed urban buildings. The escalator is covered with a white, wavy metal and glass canopy. Surrounding the escalator are tall residential and commercial buildings, including a yellow apartment building on the right and a rounded, multi-story building with green windows in the center. The area appears busy with a few people visible near the escalator entrance. The scene is set in a city with a hilly terrain.

China Built the World’s Largest Outdoor Escalator, and It’s a Modern Marvel That Looks Like It Never Stops Rising Into the Sky

By Frank Landymore

A stylized image of the Wall Street bull, colored in orange and black with a halftone texture. The background is green with scattered black stars. The bull is outlined with a thin orange glow, creating a striking contrast against the background.

Wall Street Has a Major Problem With AI Data Centers

Proponents of clean energy have launched a campaign of vengeance, targeting political candidates opposing wind and solar.

Renewable Energy

Clean Energy Industry Launching Campaign of Vengeance

By Victor Tangermann

A long row of offshore wind turbines extends into the distance over a deep blue sea under a clear sky. The turbines are painted bright yellow-green, with large blades and tall cylindrical towers anchored in the water. Several ships are visible far in the background on the horizon.

Trump Administration Would Rather Pay a Billion Dollars Than Build a Single Wind Farm

By Frank Landymore

A large semi-truck with a black cab and a silver trailer is shown against a vibrant background. The truck is highlighted with a glowing green outline, and the background features a pink grid pattern. The truck is positioned at an angle, facing slightly to the left.

Trucker Awarded $20,000 for Hauling a Massive Amount of Nuclear Waste

Rubble and debris from a destroyed building with a dusty police vest lying on top. An Iranian flag is planted in the rubble, and damaged buildings are visible in the background under a clear blue sky.

Iran Says It’s Ready to Destroy the Global Economy

By Frank Landymore

It's looking like a "nightmare scenario" is unfolding as skyrocketing oil prices "send the world economy plummeting into a deep recession."

Looks Like the Economy Is Hitting a “Nightmare Scenario”

By Victor Tangermann

Trump's war in Iran has cut much of the world off from a viral supply of oil and gas from the Middle East, causing oil prices to spike.

Gas Prices Spiking After Trump’s War in Iran

By Victor Tangermann

A bright, fiery mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion dominates the left side of the image, with intense yellow, orange, and red hues against a dark background. On the right side, there is a stylized, vintage illustration of a similar mushroom cloud in orange, teal, and cream colors, framed with a torn paper effect.

Polymarket Quietly Takes Down Bet On Nuclear Detonation

By Frank Landymore

A large cooling tower silhouetted against a vibrant red and orange sunset sky, with the sun partially visible near the base of the tower. Thin power lines run horizontally across the lower part of the image.

Renewable Energy

Huge Study Finds Living Near Nuclear Plants Linked With Cancer Deaths

By Frank Landymore

A fiery red and orange tornado-like vortex of flames rising above a calm blue ocean, with dark smoky clouds in the background.

Scientists Find That Igniting Oil Spills to Create Fire Tornadoes Might Actually Be Good for the Oceans

A devastated landscape showing extensive destruction of houses and trees, likely caused by a natural disaster such as a tornado or hurricane. The area is filled with debris, broken tree trunks, and remnants of buildings, with some vehicles partially buried under rubble. The sky is overcast, adding to the somber atmosphere.

Emails Show Epstein Scheming That Environmental Destruction Could Solve “Overpopulation”

A large wildfire is burning intensely on a hillside at night, with bright orange flames and glowing embers spreading across the landscape. Thick smoke rises into the dark sky, and the fire's glow reflects on the water in the foreground. Dim lights from buildings or homes are visible at the base of the hill.

Earth on Track to Become Uninhabitable, Scientists Say

Yellow and green metal barrels with radioactive hazard symbols painted in black, covered in dripping green paint. A red barrel is partially visible on the left side, also with green paint dripping down. The barrels appear worn and stained.

US Government Seeking Volunteers to Store Nuclear Sludge

China's solar energy production is reaching simply staggering levels, dragging energy costs down around the globe.

Renewable Energy

The Amount of New Solar Power Production Capacity China Is Manufacturing Is Legitimately Mind-Blowing

Chinese company Linyi Yunchuan recently deployed a massive airborne wind turbine, which dominated the skyline over Sichuan Province.

Renewable Energy

Behold This Massive Airborne Wind Turbine Hovering Over China

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak has just shattered a longstanding limit in nuclear plasma density.

Chinese Fusion Reactor Achieves Plasma Density Previously Thought to Be Impossible

A comapny has come up with an intriguing approach that stores energy in enormous domes that are filled with compressed carbon dioxide gas.

Google Rapidly Deploying Huge CO2 Battery Facilities That Store 200 Megawatt Hours of Power

By Victor Tangermann

The MIT fusion professor's suspected murderer, Claudio Neves Valent,e was found dead in a storage unit. Plenty of questions remain.

Murder of MIT Fusion Scientist Getting More and More Bizarre

By Victor Tangermann

A German energy company is building two enormous heat pumps that draw water from the Rhine to provide an appreciable 40,000 homes with heat.

Renewable Energy

Germany Building Clever System to Heat 40,000 Homes Using Device Powered by River Water

By Victor Tangermann

Trump's Truth Social company announced this week that it's merging with the fusion power company TAE, formerly called Tri Alpha Energy.

Truth Social Stock Explodes as It Merges With Nuclear Fusion Company

By Victor Tangermann

Lauded theoretical physicist and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Nuno Loureiro has been murdered at the age of 47.

MIT Fusion Physicist Murdered in His Home

By Victor Tangermann

A video making the rounds on social media shows a giant replica of the Statue of Liberty toppling over in a Brazilian parking lot.

Replica Statue of Liberty Topples in Urban Hellscape

By Victor Tangermann

Psychiatrists studied years of medical cannabis research and concluded that medical cannabis doesn't help patients on acute pain or insomnia.

Renewable Energy

Huge Study Finds Very Worrying Results for Medical Marijuana Patients

By Sharon Adarlo

With backing from AI chipmaker Nvidia, a startup called Starcloud launched a high-powered Nvidia GPU into outer space and trained an AI.

Nvidia Chip on Satellite in Orbit Trains First AI Model in Space

By Victor Tangermann

The dome around the Chernobyl site "had lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability" after a drone strike.

Russia Damaged Protective Dome Around Chernobyl, Can No Longer Contain Radiation

By Victor Tangermann

A YouTuber named Chris Doel cracked open hundreds of vapes to build an energy cell capable of powering his entire house.

Man Builds Huge Battery Bank From 500 Disposable Vapes to Power His Entire House

Residents in three Australian states will be receiving at least three hours of free solar power a day, even if they don't own solar panels.

Australia Now Has So Much Solar Power That It’s Giving Electricity Out for Free

By Victor Tangermann

Jensen Huang just admitted the People's Republic is outmaneuvering the "cynical" US on electrical costs and regulation.

Nvidia CEO Says China Is “Going to Win” the AI Race

In a new memo published on his blog, Bill Gates pushed back on a "doomsday view of climate change," arguing we should help the poor instead.

Bill Gates Says Climate Change Isn’t So Bad After All

By Victor Tangermann

A Chinese firm has just unveiled the world's first underwater data center, cooled by the ocean and powered by wind.

Chinese Company Launches Wind-Powered Data Center at the Bottom of the Sea

The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.

Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

A worker fell into the nuclear reactor at the controversial Palisades Power Plant in Michigan, where they drank a little "cavity water."

Worker Falls Into Nuclear Reactor, Drinks a Little “Cavity Water”

New footage from the British fusion firm Tokamak Energy shows unbelievably hot plasma imprisoned in a magnetic field.

We’re Only Slightly Exaggerating When We Say This Footage of a Fusion Experiment Will Melt Your Face Off

By Frank Landymore

The United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization has released its latest report on global greenhouse gas emissions, and it's bleak.

The Latest Climate News Is So Bad That You Should Probably Not Click This and Just Bury Your Head in the Sand

By Victor Tangermann

AI data centers in the US are spiking nearby customers electricity bills and bringing other unexpected costs.

AI Data Centers Are Skyrocketing Regular People’s Energy Bills

OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.

Renewable Energy

OpenAI’s New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to a perfect storm of AI and crony capitalism, the country's power system is rapidly crumbling as costs balloon into the stratosphere.

Electricity Is Becoming Unbelievably Expensive as the US Power Grid Decays Into Ruin

Scientists say they've developed a way to salvage nuclear waste from fission reactors — and turn it into a potent fuel for fusion reactors.

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out a Way to Turn Nuclear Waste Into a Powerful Fuel

By Victor Tangermann

Over the weekend, a huge swarm of jellyfish forced the Gravelines Nuclear Power Station in France to take four of its six reactors offline.

Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down by Furious Jellyfish

Employees at the site in South Carolina where the US used to construct nuclear weapons have discovered a radioactive wasp nest.

Workers Find Radioactive Wasp Nest at Nuclear Facility, But the Wasps Are Missing

By Victor Tangermann

Marathon Fusion says that fusion energy reactors could also be used to turn mercury isotopes into gold.

Fusion Startup Says It’s Figured Out How to Turn Mercury Into Gold

By Victor Tangermann

Solar power has become the fastest growing source of energy throughout the globe, with one gigawatt of capacity installed every 15 hours.

The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable

NASA's Relay 2 satellite had been dormant since 1967 — until last summer, when it emitted a very powerful burst of energy.

Long-Dead NASA Satellite Suddenly Lets Out Epic Blast of Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's shoddy AI Overviews allegedly spread damaging lies about a solar company, which is now suing the tech giant for defamation.

Solar Company Sues Google for Giving Damaging Information in AI Overviews

By Frank Landymore

Two satellites just carefully lined up to form a perfect "artificial total solar eclipse" in orbit. The results are stunning.

Scientists Line Up Satellites to Create “Artificial Total Solar Eclipse”

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are intrigued after spotting a highly unusual celestial object lurking at the very edge of our solar system.

Scientists Detect Mysterious Object in Deep Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have observed a quasar-powered galaxy lasering its opponent with a crippling beam of radiation.

Astronomers Intrigued by Galaxy Blasting Its Neighbor With Giant Energy Beam

By Frank Landymore

China just surpassed a new green energy milestone, crushing the west in the process.

China’s Green Energy Surge Has Caused CO2 Emissions to Fall for the First Time

Wind Farms Accused of Stealing Each Others’ Wind

Wind Farms Accused of Stealing Each Others’ Wind

By Frank Landymore

A breathtaking video shared on social media shows a mountain range in Guizhou blanketed in solar panels as far as the eye can see.

Wild Video Shows Entire Mountain Range in China Covered With Solar Panels

Donald Trump's administration is so committed to deregulation that it is ending program that has saved Americans half a trillion dollars.

You’ll Start Spiralling When You Learn What the Trump Administration Just Did

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have detected a promising sign of a ninth planet lurking at the the farthest reaches of the Solar System.

Scientists Say They May Have Spotted a Huge Hidden Planet Deep in Our Solar System

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have discovered a gigantic, glowing gas of hydrogen gas lurking just 300 light-years away.

Scientists Intrigued by Glowing Cloud Near Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

The Trump administration is slapping giant tariffs on solar panels — and the figures are so high, you will straight up gasp.

Trump Just Set a Tariff on Solar Panels So High That Your Eyebrows May Raise Involuntarily

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed the successful refueling of an operational Thorium-powered nuclear reactor.

China Fires Up World’s First Thorium-Powered Nuclear Reactor

A British startup called Pulsar Fusion has come up with a wild new concept for a nuclear fusion-powered space rocket.

Startup Says Its Nuclear Fusion Rocket Could Cut Time to Mars in Half

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Puzzled by Giant Ancient Life Forms

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists Discover Four Intriguing Planets Around Closest Single-Star Solar System to Earth

Scientists Discover Four Intriguing Planets Around Closest Single-Star Solar System to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

A giant wave of undulating gas and dust appears, per new research, to have engulfed our Solar System millions of years ago.

Something Mysterious Swept Over Our Entire Solar System, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers believe they've discovered a spiral structure inside the Oort cloud that surrounds our solar system.

Scientists Spot Spiral Structure at Edge of Solar System

By Frank Landymore

New research suggests that our Solar System may already be swimming in interstellar objects that originate from the Alpha Centauri system.

Alpha Centauri Sending Stream of Objects Into Our Solar System, Scientists Propose

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have developed a new "artificial leaf" that removes CO2 from the air and turns it into sustainable fuel.

Renewable Energy

Scientists Reveal “Artificial Leaf” That Turns Carbon Into Sustainable Fuels

By Noor Al-Sibai