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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

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

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

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

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

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 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

After an ill-conceived round of federal layoffs, the government is scrambling to hire back hundreds of nuclear weapons experts.

Government Fires Specialists Without Realizing They Were in Charge of Nuclear Bombs, Then Panics and Tries to Rehire Them

As Donald Trump has demanded the mass firing of hundreds of workers at an agency that manages our nuclear stockpile.

Trump Enacts Mass Firings at Group That Maintains Nuclear Bombs

By Noor Al-Sibai

If Donald Trump makes good on his campaign promise to impose tariffs on Canadian energy imports, it will devastate the nuclear energy market.

Trump’s Tariffs Poised to Wreck Nuclear Power

By Noor Al-Sibai

A company is trying to turn the idea of an at least partially solar-powered Cybertruck into a reality with a solar panel wrap.

New Cybertruck Wrap Adds Solar Panels All Over It

By Victor Tangermann

Jimmy Carter Once Lowered Himself Into a Nuclear Reactor After a Partial Meltdown

Jimmy Carter Once Lowered Himself Into a Nuclear Reactor After a Partial Meltdown

By Noor Al-Sibai

As more and more rich people rush to buy and build bomb shelters, experts suggest they're a bandaid on top of a nuclear blast.

There’s a Major Problem With the Nuclear War Bunkers The Rich Are Buying

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists Say Something May Have Visited the Solar System and Rearranged the Planets

Scientists Say Something May Have Visited the Solar System and Rearranged the Planets

By Frank Landymore

Scientists found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus messed with our understanding of the planet.

Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA Complains

By Victor Tangermann

The interstellar tunnel, a feature of an enormous structure called the Local Bubble, could lead to nearby stars.

Astronomers Discover “Interstellar Tunnel” In Our Solar Neighborhood

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is still spinning through space uncontrollably. One of its boom arms has a bend as well.

NASA Solar Sail Spacecraft Damaged, Spinning Through Space

By Victor Tangermann

The man in charge of the United States stockpile of nuclear missiles, says the Pentagon is doubling down on artificial intelligence.

General in Charge of Nuclear Weapons Says Heck, Let’s Add Some AI

By Victor Tangermann

Google is going all-in on nuclear to power its AI efforts, which have resulted in the tech giant missing important climate targets.

Yet Another Tech Giant Throws Its Weight Behind Nuclear As AI’s Monstrous Power Demands Spike

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A huge solar flare caused a radio blackout on Earth yesterday — and we could be in for another powerful geomagnetic storm later this week.

A Colossal Solar Flare Just Triggered a Radio Blackout on Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former president Donald Trump made a mind-meltingly dumb assertion that we should be more worried about "nuclear warming."

Confused Trump Issues Garbled Warning About “Nuclear Warming”

By Victor Tangermann

China experienced a major military setback earlier this year when its secret nuclear submarine sank right after being launched.

China Embarrassed When Brand-New Secret Nuclear Submarine Instantly Sinks

By Noor Al-Sibai

Nuclear researchers and energy startups are now melting down weapons-grade uranium from unexploded warheads to power next-generation SMRs.

America Now Disassembling Old Nuclear Warheads to Power Nuclear Reactors

By Victor Tangermann

The objects lie beyond the known boundaries of the Kuiper Belt, a disc of icy bodies that encircle our Solar System.

Scientists Intrigued by Signs of Hidden Ring of Objects at Edge of Solar System

By Frank Landymore

NASA’s Experimental Solar Sail Is Tumbling in Orbit

NASA’s Experimental Solar Sail Is Tumbling in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

After shutting it down in 2022, Michigan is making an abrupt u-turn and is now planning to reopen an old 1970s nuclear power.

Michigan Plotting to Re-Open Shuttered 1970s Nuclear Plant

By Sharon Adarlo

The multi-layered coating is not only thinner than the silicon cells typically used in solar panels, but rivals their efficiency, too.

Scientists Develop Solar Panel Material 100 Times Thinner Than a Human Hair

By Frank Landymore

A power geomagnetic storm that hit Earth on Monday created beautiful auroras that lit up the night sky during the Perseids meteor shower.

Severe Solar Storm Creates Stunning Auroras During Meteor Shower

By Frank Landymore

Mayonnaise may, according to a new study, help scientists figure out how to realistically harness the power of nuclear fusion.

Scientists Say Secret to Fusion May Lie in Hellmann’s Mayonnaise

By Noor Al-Sibai

Earlier this month, a 360-foot blade of a wind turbine off the shore of Nantucket shattered. An oil spill is still far worse.

If You’re Upset About That Broken Wind Turbine, Remember the Time BP Spilled 210 Million Gallons of Oil Into the Gulf of Mexico?

By Victor Tangermann

A massive wind turbine blade shattered, leading to "large floating debris and fiberglass shards" threatening local beachgoers.

Beaches Covered in Shards and Debris as Giant Wind Turbine Shatters

By Victor Tangermann

While heat waves batter Europe, a million people in Southern Russia went without power due to a nuclear false alarm.

One Million Russians Lose Power When Alarm Goes Off at Nuclear Plant

By Noor Al-Sibai

China has built the OceanX, "the world's largest single-capacity floating wind turbine platform." It can withstand hurricanes and typhoons.

China Installs Giant Wind Turbine Built to Harness Power of Hurricanes

By Sharon Adarlo

The same sunspot responsible for the epic geomagnetic storm earlier this month just came back into view and immediately let loose.

The Sun Just Unleashed Yet Another Fierce Solar Flare, and It’s Only Getting Started

By Frank Landymore

Germany has so much energy coming from solar panels that it has outpaced consumer demand and pushed energy prices into a steep nose dive.

Germany Now Has So Much Solar Power That Its Electric Prices Are Going Negative

By Sharon Adarlo

The Blue Visby Solution proposes that cargo ships stop arriving way ahead of schedule and reduce their top speeds at sea to save fuel.

Renewable Energy

Ingenious Trick Cuts Cargo Ship Carbon Emissions by 17 Percent

By Frank Landymore

Tractors and other farm equipment broke down in the middle of planting season due to an extreme solar storm over the weekend.

Solar Storm So Powerful It Shut Down Farm Equipment Across the US and Canada

By Victor Tangermann

A new carbon capture facility that claims to be the biggest in the world, began sucking the carbon from the air in Iceland.

Renewable Energy

World’s Largest Vacuum to Suck Carbon From Atmosphere Turns On for First Time

By Victor Tangermann

A massive solar storm is blasting the Earth's atmosphere with charged particles, resulting in auroras that will be visible across the US.

Massive Solar Storm to Trigger Northern Lights Across North America

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA spacecraft with sails being propelled solely by the rays of the Sun just made contact with operators back on Earth.

NASA Prepares to Unfurl Large Solar Sail From Spacecraft in Orbit

By Sharon Adarlo

It's the "duck curve" problem. Solar power is providing huge amounts of energy during the day, creating a headache for grid operators.

California Now Has So Much Solar Power That Electricity Prices Are Going Negative During the Day

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have long been hunting for a hidden planet in our Solar System — and new research suggests that it's out there.

Scientists Say They’ve Found More Evidence of Hidden Planet in Our Solar System

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA footage from the International Space Station shows a massive, looming cloud of darkness engulfing huge swathes of the United States.

The Solar Eclipse Looks Absolutely Wild From Space

By Victor Tangermann

A massive jet stream formed over the mid-Atlantic region this past weekend, pushing eastbound planes faster than the speed of sound.

Mighty Wind Propels Commercial Jets Faster Than Speed of Sound

By Noor Al-Sibai

A plan to store nuclear waste in America's busiest oil field is a fascinating collision between fossil fuels and nuclear.

Please Don’t Store Nuclear Waste in Our Precious Oil Field, Says Fossil Fuel Industry

By Jon Christian

Last night's event was the first Super Bowl to be entirely powered by renewable energy, an impressive feat for a 65,000-person stadium.

Renewable Energy

The Entire Super Bowl Was Powered by Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Stanford researchers tasked OpenAI's GPT-4 AI to make high-stakes, society-level decisions. It recommended the use of nuclear weapons.

In Tests, GPT-4 Strangely Itchy to Launch Nuclear War

By Victor Tangermann

A particularly enterprising Tesla owner has built his very own solar panel array that can be mounted on the roof of his Model Y.

Tesla Owner Builds Solar Array That Folds Out of Model Y Roof

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists encountered the biggest solar flare recorded since 2017, which was powerful enough to knock out radio communication on Earth.

A Massive Solar Flare Just Knocked Out Radio Communications Back on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

The first-of-its-kind geothermal plant will power Google's nearby data centers and could kick start a new phase of geothermal energy.

Google Fires Up Experimental New Geothermal Plant

By Frank Landymore

Researchers simulated what would happen if a rogue star were to come within 100 astronomical units of the Sun.

Scientists Study What Would Happen If a Rogue Star Crashed Through Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann