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The Survival Condo is a converted luxury condominium complex comprised of 15 floors, reaching 200 feet below the surface.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers is trying to build sustainable energy in developing communities with a new battery pack rental program.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers are hoping that tiny graphite-coated balls of uranium could revolutionize and bring back nuclear energy production to the United States.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Radiation sensors recently identified a harmless-but-significant leak, likely from a nuclear power plant, in east Europe.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A new system makes carbon capture more feasible for power plants and can convert carbon emissions into raw materials for fuel.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A power company in the U.K. is building the world's largest liquid air battery, which stores energy in the form of highly-compressed air.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a star that resembles our Sun so nearly that it's almost like a mirror of our solar system.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers probing the night sky for signs of dark energy discovered almost 21,000 new, extremely-dim galaxies.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A new solar panel-like device can generate clean electricity when it's blocked by darkness and shadows rather than sitting in direct sunlight.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

During a test, a powerful laser weapon system on board the amphibious US Navy ship USS Portland "successfully disabled an unmanned aerial vehicle."
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, daily emissions decreased by 17 percent, or 17 million tons of carbon dioxide, worldwide to 2006 levels.
Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists Discover New Trick to Stabilize Fusion Reactors
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

After studying a population of asteroids called the Centaurs for years, a team of scientists believes they originated outside the solar system.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

In Basalt, Colorado, a neighborhood built its own virtual power plant, letting them generate — and share — clean energy as needed.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Ukrainian authorities say a forest fire is causing radiation levels to spike in the area of Chernobyl, a nuclear power plant that melted down in 1986.
Energy

By Jon Christian

A group of roughly 300 nuclear fusion researchers put together a massive report of goals and priorities for making fusion power a reality.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers at the UPenn have discovered 139 minor planets — too small for a planet, but not a comet either — orbiting the Sun past Neptune.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

A new site claims to offer a guide to building an entire nuclear power plant, from the reactor vessels to the Homer Simpson-esque control panels.
Nuclear Fusion

By Jon Christian

There is a chance that incoming stars that whip past the Earth could throw it out of orbit and move it away from the Sun, an astrophycisist argues.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found a way to turn biowaste, specifically the inedible cores of jackfruit and durian, into high-density ultracapacitors for storing energy.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A draft proposal, if enacted, would force vendors selling phones, tablets, or earbuds in the European Union to use replaceable batteries.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A new study reveals a bizarre link: on days that solar storms mess with the magnetic field, more gray whales beach themselves.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

An Australian fusion startup called HB11 claims to have found a way to revolutionize current nuclear fusion technology. A bold statement.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have created tiny solar powered wings that can flap faster than butterfly wings and only need sunlight as a power source.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Delta just threw down a carbon-neutral pledge at a first-class price: $1 billion over ten years. Is it a realistic ambition, or a pie-in-the-sky dream?
Renewable Energy

By Foster Kamer

Swiss startup Energy Vault wants to overcome the limitations of lithium-ion batteries by storing wind and solar energy by stacking massive brick towers.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists has nearly dug deep enough inside Earth to tap into a reservoir of supercritical fluid, which could serve as a limitless power supply.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

An astrophysicist has designed a stellar engine that could move Earth's entire solar system from one part of the Milky Way to another.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

Climatologist Alan Robock from Rutgers University and his team studied what an all-out nuclear war between world nations could look like.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers built a kind of generator that gives off a powerful burst of energy whenever it's hit by falling rain.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shared a dire warning that the planet is descending into conflcit and instability, but a better future is possible.
Wind

By Dan Robitzski

The US Navy is looking to arm nuclear submarines with high-energy laser weapons, according to Popular Mechanics. It won't reveal why.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers identified a major flaw in the U.S. government's plan to store nuclear waste: groundwater can eat away at storage containers and cause leaks.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

Research teams have discovered dust grains older than our solar system in two meteorites that landed on separate parts of the Earth in 1969.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

The wildfires raging in Australia could release a billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere by the end of the fire season, says Stanford scientist.
Renewable Energy

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers wants to make use of nuclear waste by converting it into extremely long-lasting diamond batteries that could power medical devices.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

Rolls-Royce is eyeing two building sites for its first mini nuclear power stations called "small modular reactors" (SMR) in Wales and northern England.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

The local government overseeing Fukushima has vowed to supply the region with 100% renewable energy by 2040, The Guardian reports.
Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists detailed how 143 countries could transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2050 or possibly even sooner.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

U.S. President Donald Trump claimed in a single speech that he both “doesn’t understand wind” and has “studied it better than anybody.”
Wind

By Kristin Houser

Russia's floating nuclear power plant, Akademik Lomonosov, is now operational and generating power for the town of Pevek.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

An Army research center patented bizarre boots that generates electricity every time a soldier takes a step, giving them a new way to power their gear.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have created an AI that is able to come up with a recipe for "perovskite" that could one day be used to create spray-on solar cells.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has resurfaced his idea to turn 10,000 square miles in the U.S. desert into a solar farm that can power the entire nation.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Musk's mind is already racing far ahead, imagining a bright, renewable energy-fuelled future featuring a cybertruck cladded in solar panels.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that a fiery layer of super-hot plasma marks the transition between our solar system and interstellar space.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

Heliogen's new solar oven can focus sunlight and reach temperatures high enough to manufacture steel and cement without any fossil fuels.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists used data collected by the European Space Agency's Cluster mission to map out Earth's "eerie song" it sings during a solar storm.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

The U.S. Air Force is trying to find out if we could collect solar power in space and beam it down to Earth with the help of Northrop Grumman..
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

The Keystone Pipeline just had a spill of over 380,000 gallons of crude oil into North Dakota wetlands, the latest in a line of catastrophic oil spills.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

After denying reports of a system malware infection Tuesday, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) admitted that its plants had been hacked.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Last week, scientists achieved "first light" with the Mayall Telescope's Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. It could teach us about dark energy.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The asteroid Hygiea is actually our solar system's smallest dwarf planet, astronomers determine using Very Large Telescope data.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

Early observations of the interstellar object 2I/Borisov suggest that the comet's home solar system might not be that different from our own.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

Big tech companies have by and large avoided the blackouts in California, as they're powered by more robust transmission lines.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Navy "UFO "scientist Salvatore Cezar Pais has filed another bizarre patent. This time, it's for a compact nuclear fusion reactor.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new essay, several companies trying to develop nuclear fusion reactors believe they're getting pretty close.
Energy

By Cameron McCloskey

Starting Wednesday, the utility company Pacific Gas & Electric will turn off customers' power to prevent its aging infrastructure from causing wildfires.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

New calculations of the universe's outward expansion only make sense if it turns out that some black holes are actually giant blobs of dark energy.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

According to a decade-long study by a team of scientists, human activity emissions total up to 100 times more than all volcanoes combined.
Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

While performing a close flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured several stunning images of a solar eclipse on the gas giant.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

Japanese auto giant Toyota has partnered with a local energy company to test a Prius hybrid that's almost entirely covered in solar panels.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to the Gemini Observatory, we get a closer look at the object called C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), a comet believed to be from beyond our solar system.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers believe they may have detected a second interstellar object, but unlike 'Oumuamua, this one is on its way into our solar system.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser