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After examining over 200,000 images taken by Hubble, a faint excess of light spread across our sky has been detected by astronomers.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

Italian startup Energy Dome has designed an ingenious battery that uses CO2 to store energy, and it only needs non-exotic materials like steel and water.
Energy

By Frank Landymore

According to reporting by Elektrek, Tesla's solar division is pulling out its solar roof program across the country, with solar employees getting laid off.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

Only some 90 light years away lurks a graveyard of destroyed planets orbitting a white dwarf. And it may be one of the oldest solar systems in the universe.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

Infamous Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has released a new study that claims there could be an absurd amount of alien spacecraft already in our backyard.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

Dozens of France's nuclear reactors remain offline following a series of troubling outages believed to be caused by stress-induced pipe corrosion.
Nuclear Fusion

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Guardian reports that the BBC has already secretly prepared scripts to read on air in the event of energy shortages causing blackouts or empty gas reserves — a telling sign that between the war in Ukraine, growing energy uncertainty, and a fast-approaching winter, UK authorities are bracing for the absolute worst.
Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have discovered the brightest energy burst ever detected in space — and Astronomy Twitter is abuzz over the electrifying finding. 
Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Germany has once again fired up its coal plants. But Greta Thunberg thinks the country should just use its already in place nuclear power plants instead.
Nuclear Fusion

By Frank Landymore

A new crude oil supertanker launched by the China Merchant Energy Shipping company (CMES) is making use of four large sails to reduce its fuel consumption.
Fossil Fuels

By Victor Tangermann

A leading Chinese solar power company is sending its panels to space in an effort to establish 24/7 energy harnessing to send back to Earth.
Solar Power

By Noor Al-Sibai

The widespread adoption of colder, bluer LEDs may not be worth the energy it saves if it causes so much disruption to the environment and our own lives.
Energy

By Frank Landymore

China claims it will build the world's biggest nuclear fusion reactors within the next six years, a highly ambitious timeline.
Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

In October 2021, months before Russia's invasion, a YouTuber got an exclusive look inside the New Safe Confinement site at the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has long believed that 'Oumuamua, a mysterious object that visited our solar system, was an alien spacecraft.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Ben Nowack, a 26-year-old inventor, wants to send satellites with mirrors mounted to their backs into space to allow us to generate solar energy at night.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is planning "The Mirror Line." The skyscraper would be the world's largest structure and house millions.
Energy

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The space race may just have heated up amid China's reported discovery of a new lunar mineral that could possibly be used as an energy source. 
Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

The US Department of Energy said it's making geothermal energy a priority, hoping to cut its cost by 90 percent before 2035.
Geothermal

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The situation at the Russia-controlled Zaporizhzhia power plant — the Ukrainian nuclear power plant at the war's front lines — is bad. Really bad.
Nuclear Fusion

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn't convinced of the long-term prospects of fusion energy, the concept of fusing atoms together to generate green electricity.
Wind

By Victor Tangermann

The energy crisis in Europe has gotten so bad that CERN is considering idling the Large Hadron Collider to save energy amid potential rationing.
Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Shelling and fighting near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe's largest nuclear plant, are making locals increasingly nervous about Russia.
Nuclear Fusion

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A solar company under investigation for violating consumer protections filed suit againt a company it blames for failure. Meanwhile, the climate changes.
Solar Power

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Amazon — which made solar power a key pillar of its plan to reach zero emissions by 2040 — secretly switched off all rooftop warehouse solar panels.
Solar Power

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

California is spending $20 million on a pilot project that will involve 8,500 feet of solar panels covering sections of canals.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Say Future Wind Turbines Could Be Recycled Into Delicious Gummy Bears
Wind

By Frank Landymore

For the better part of the last century, one question has dogged humanity: if and when nuclear war breaks out, what will happen next? 
Nuclear Fusion

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cosmic voids in the cosmic web may be connected to dark energy, which causes the universe to expand at an accelerating rate.
Energy

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Officials are alarmed by Russia's decision to keep bombing a nuclear power plant in a Russian-occupied region in southeastern Ukraine.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

An incoming solar storm cycle is going to make things much worse for the increasing number of satellites that are going up.
Solar Power

By Noor Al-Sibai

Supply chain shortages have put transformers in short supply, so states may struggle to restore electricity after hurricanes this season.
Energy

By Lonnie Lee Hood

US Senate Democrats passed a bill to address climate change and energy needs through new corporate taxes on Sunday. Is it enough?
Energy

By Lonnie Lee Hood

An Australian company offers a promising new wave energy prototype that has already supplied power to the electrical grid of a small island.
Energy

By Frank Landymore

A small nuclear reactor has been approved for certification by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Friday, the first in the country.
Nuclear Fusion

By Frank Landymore

Germany may need to expand the life of a nuclear power plant as Russia invades Ukraine and destabilizes power supplies in Europe.
Nuclear Fusion

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The UK government is planning to bury the world's largest stockpile of radioactive nuclear waste beneath the ocean floor, sparking concern among experts.
Nuclear Fusion

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An independent analysis shows that Tesla's electric cybertruck is incredibly aerodynamic — its drag is above average for other pickup trucks on the market.
Wind

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Follow-up experiments attempting to recreate a landmark laser fusion breakthrough are falling far short of expectations, Nature reports.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A windmill in Texas caught on fire after getting strucking by lightning. Footage showed a spiral of smoke before the structure collapsed.
Wind

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists in Switzerland say they've figured out how to make jet fuel from water, carbon dioxide and sunlight using a solar tower.
Energy

By Lonnie Lee Hood

New imagery of the largest canyon in the solar system was captured on the Red Planet by the ESA and the Mars Express mission.
Solar Power

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Coal-powered plants are being repurposed in the US to store and produce solar and battery power for more renewable power sources.
Solar Power

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A solar panel can leak heavy metals and cause pollution, but consumer solar demand may mean they get tossed aside less often.
Solar Power

By Lonnie Lee Hood

To prevent power outages this winter, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida asked that as many as nine of the country's nuclear reactors be brought online.
Nuclear Fusion

By Lonnie Lee Hood

After running nearly 3,000 simulations, scientists found that a minor change in Neptune's orbit caused by a passing star could disrupt our system's orbits.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

Two new high capacity battery prototypes are pushing the frontiers of energy storage — and in a beachy twist, one is based on sand and the other on water.
Energy

By Frank Landymore

While we're not expecting to see it hitting store shelves soon, Tesla has shown off a solar range extending trailer during an exposition in Germany.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

The cost of polysilicon, used in solar panel production, rose 5 percent in price this week. Solar panel costs could also increase because of the jump.
Solar Power

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It's definitely not a bird, but it is sort of a plane — it's the non-existent but admittedly very cool Sky Cruise, a fantastical nuclear-powered sky hotel.
Nuclear Fusion

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Seattle-based startup Zap Energy also says that its approach to fusion energy is far simpler and cheaper tan other approaches.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Russian President Vladimir Putin happily announced the country's so-called "Satan-2" rocket is ready for deployment this year.
Nuclear Fusion

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Police in Virginia Beach arrested two men they say stole gas and re-sold it at a discount to other people using a gas hack and social media.
Energy

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A bill that would ban all crypto mining that uses fossil fuels is languishing on the desk of New York's governor, which begs the question — what now?
Fossil Fuels

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a huge twist of irony, Norway is building the world's largest wind farm — to power offshore oil and gas fields.
Wind

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A few wind farms in Scotland were asked to reduce output by 25 megawatts because turbines produced more power than the UK's electric grid could handle.
Wind

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new startup called Air Company is producing vodka by making use of carbon dioxide emissions, a futuristic new beverage.
Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A top-secret superyacht confessional reveals the Bond-esque lifestyles of the rich and the famous who own these luxury vessels.
Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists are planning to drive a Tesla 9,400 miles around Australia — a journey that's entirely powered by the Sun alone, Reuters reports.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

California is a step closer to a completely clean energy power grid. Is it in time to stop climate change and reverse environmental damage?
Energy

By Lonnie Lee Hood

UK-based startup First Light claims to have achieved a fusion energy "breakthrough" by shooting a projectile into a fuel target to release energy.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

France's electric grid manager asked people to cut electric consumption because of an incoming cold front, Europe's ongoing energy crisis and Russia.
Energy

By Lonnie Lee Hood

If you live in the Northern part of the United States and catch a glimpse of the aurora borealis tonight, you'll have a "cannibal" solar explosion to thank. 
Solar Power

By Noor Al-Sibai

Exxon Mobile is used to waste about 18 million cubic feet of gas per month. Now it's using the fossil fuel to power crypto mining rigs.
Fossil Fuels

By Lonnie Lee Hood