1235 Results From "renewable energy"

Scientists say they've successfully transmitted solar energy gathered in orbit down to the Earth's surface.
Solar Power

Satellite Beams Solar Power Down to Earth Using Microwave Transmitter

Trump's Department of Energy has been blocking research on the benefits of renewable energy sources from seeing the light of day.
Studies

The White House Got Caught Burying Studies About Renewable Energy

A huge cargo ship will use a large kite to drag itself across the ocean in a test run next month in an effort to reduce carbon emissions the shipping industry emits each year.
Climate Change

Cargo Ship Will Get Dragged Through Ocean by Giant Kite

The potential detection of objects lying beyond the Kuiper Belt's limits may upend our understanding of what encircles our solar system.
Off-World

Scientists Find Evidence for Large Unknown Objects in Distant Solar System

A NASA spacecraft has caught a glimpse of a green comet being buffeted by a coronal mass ejection, a powerful solar storm.
Off-World

Amazing Video Shows Solar Eruption Blasting Tail Off Comet

New research suggests that hidden vegetation in NYC seems to absorb a lion's share of its carbon emissions via photosynthesis. 
Renewable Energy

NYC’s Greenery Eats Up All the CO2 From Its Cars, Trucks and Buses “And Then Some”

Microsoft will buy all the power produced by the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant for twenty years as part of a deal to reopen it.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Working to Reopen Three Mile Island to Power Huge AI Datacenters

Planetary scientists suggest an Earth-like planet, no bigger than three times the Earth's mass, could lurk beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Off-World

Scientists Say There May Be Another Earth-Sized Planet Lurking in the Solar System

AI's demand on the US power grid is resulting in changing phase-out deadlines for American coal companies.
Artificial Intelligence

Huge Power Demand for AI Is Keeping Polluting Coal Plants Alive

Months after notifying government officials that its Minnesota-based nuclear plant had sprung a radioactive water leak, Xcel Energy has come publicly clean.
Nuclear Fusion

Nuclear Plant Admits It Accidentally Leaked 400,000 Gallons of Radioactive Water

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

The UK Is Producing Too Much Wind Power, Actually

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

Greta Thunberg Thinks Germany Shutting Down Its Nuclear Plants Is a Bad Idea

Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods told the New York Times that he thinks Donald Trump shouldn't withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement.
Climate Change

Even Exxon Mobil Is Horrified by Trump’s Climate Plan

NASA has chosen Lockheed Martin to test a nuclear-powered rocket in space by 2027, in hopes of using the system to power Mars missions.
Nuclear Fusion

NASA Signs Deal for Nuclear-Powered Rocket That Will Eventually Power Mars Missions

Mining company Fortescue is looking to reduce its carbon footprint with an electric "Infinity Train" that can fully recharge by rolling down the mountain.
Science & Energy

Ingenious Electric Train Fully Charges Itself by Rolling Downhill With Heavy Load

Scientists suggest another planet could be lurking in the Oort cloud, a collection of icy objects stretching beyond the Kuiper Belt.
Off-World

Our Solar System May Be Hiding an Extra Planet, Scientists Say

To keep generative AI models running requires huge amounts of electricity — and the US' aging power grid is struggling to handle the load.
Artificial Intelligence

America’s Ramshackle Power Grid Is Straining Under the Load of Generative AI

The scientist who run the Doomsday Clock have once again ticked it forward, bringing humanity's estimated chances of its own annihilation ever closer. 
Nuclear Fusion

Scientists Say We’re Closer to Nuclear Armageddon Than Any Other Point in History

For the first time in history, renewables became the second-most prevalent electricity source in the US in 2020 after natural gas.
Nuclear Fusion

Renewables Overtook Coal and Nuclear Power Generation in the US Last Year

Fusion startup Helion is in talks for a deal with OpenAI to "buy vast quantities of electricity to provide power for data centers."
OpenAI

OpenAI Negotiating to Buy “Vast Quantities” of Fusion Power, Which Doesn’t Exist Yet