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Climate activist Ia Anstoot is gunning to challenge Greenpeace's court case against the EU classifying nuclear power as a green investment.

Teen Activist Lectures Greenpeace to Stop Railing Against Nuclear Power

By Frank Landymore

German startup Proxima Fusion recently grabbed millions to build a reactor that looks like a twisty French cruller doughnut.

Nuclear Fusion Startup Gets Funding for Twisty-Looking Reactor

By Sharon Adarlo

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

France Discovers Ominous Cracks in Dozens of Nuclear Reactors

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.

UK Authorities Anticipate Energy Blackouts This Winter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Fighting Heats Up Near Ukraine Nuclear Plant

By Lonnie Lee Hood

North Carolina drivers who own a Ford Lightning F-150 may get paid to provide power to the local energy grid. It could prevent grid failures.

Ford F-150 Lightning Drivers Who Boost the Power Grid Might Get Paid in North Carolina

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Companies in the shipping industry are using cargo sail boats because of delays and the cost of fossil fuel. Shipping via sail boat is more eco-friendly.

Several Companies Are Switching From Cargo Vessels to Wooden Sailing Ships

By Lonnie Lee Hood

$A new Yale study says children born while living next to fracking locations are almost three times as likely to be diagnosed with leukemia.$

Kids Born Near Fracking Sites More Likely to Have Leukemia, Study Says

By Lonnie Lee Hood

China's worst-ever drought in history caused the country to begin cloud seeding, using silver iodide rods to encourage rainfall.

China Shooting Rods Into Sky to Bring Rain After Massive Drought

By Lonnie Lee Hood

At least 50 people have died in Sudan because of severe seasonal flooding, and the worst may not be over. Ethopia's dam project may cause another flood.

At Least 50 Dead in Seasonal Sudan Flooding

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Texas paid Riot Blockchain, a crypto mining company, millions of dollars to partially shut down during an intense heat wave.

Texas Paid Crypto Mining Company Millions to Not Mine Crypto

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A skid steer with a lawn mower hit an old oil pipeline in Tennessee and spilled 180,000 gallons of oil in the state's second largest spill.

Lawn Mower Hits Old Pipeline, Spills 180,000 Gallons of Oil

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

Supply Chain Shortages Making Hurricane Season Even Scarier

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?

Senate Democrats Pass Sweeping Climate and Energy Bill

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Almost every sea turtle being born in Florida is a girl because of increasing sand temperatures due to climate change. Turtle populations are in danger.

Almost Every Turtle Being Born Female Due to Global Warming

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Heat wave Zoe was so bad that Seville, Spain decided to create its own naming and rating system for heat waves and gave it the highest score.

Hooray! Heat Waves Are Now Bad Enough to Get Names

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

German Government Says It May Keep Nuclear Plant Open After All

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Western US is in the worst drought in 1,200 years. Lawns suck up previous water resources, but not every resident is on board with cutbacks.

An Evil Force Is Sucking the Life Out of California: Lawns

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

Saudi Arabia Planning Skyscraper That’s 75 Miles Wide

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

Wind Turbine Catches on Fire, Creates Spiral-Shaped Smoke Pattern

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Startup EarthGrid's plasma bot is built to bore tunnels underground fast and cheap, and may help run electric and power grid lines for the US.

Robot Designed to Tunnel Through the Earth Incredibly Fast Using Plasma

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.

New System Creates Jet Fuel From Water, CO2 and Sunlight

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Experts are worried that Texas' state's power plants won't be able to keep up with energy demands as temperatures soar and plants run full steam.

Experts Concerned Texas Power Plants Will Start to Die Amid Heat Wave

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.

Companies Are Turning Coal Plants Into Solar Farms

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.

Japan May Need Nine Nuclear Reactors Turned On to Get Through Winter

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A single snake found its way into the Tohoku Electric Power station in Japan and caused an outage that lasted an hour for 10,000 homes on Wednesday.

Unfortunate Snake Causes Power Outage for 10,000 Homes

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A startup claims to have created a solid-state battery that can allow an EV to cover 400 miles and then recharge from 10 to 80 percent in just 15 minutes.

Advanced Transport

Startup Says Amazing New Battery Lets EVs Drive 400 Miles, Recharge in 15 Minutes

By Victor Tangermann

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.

Police Say Dudes Hacked Gas Station Pumps to Make Prices Lower

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

Ironic! Norway is Building a Massive Wind Farm to Boost Oil Production

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

France Might Run Out of Energy Because of Russia’s War

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Air conditioning needs will likely outpace the US's energy capacity because of climate change by the early 2030s according to a new study in Earth's Future.

Climate Change Air Conditioning Spike Will Cause Widespread Blackouts, Scientists Warn

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Lebanon’s entire electric grid collapsed on Saturday when the country’s two main power stations ran out of fuel.

The Country of Lebanon’s Entire Electric Grid Just Collapsed

By Tony Ho Tran

China seems to be powering a massive array of intercontinental ballistic missile silos with a huge new wind farm, so at least it's environmentally friendly.

Rejoice! China Is Powering Ballistic Missile Silos With Environmentally-Friendly Wind Turbines

By Dan Robitzski

The German government just unveiled a facility that synthesizes jet fuel out of nothing but water and atmospheric carbon dioxide.

New Facility Creates Jet Fuel Out of Water

By Dan Robitzski

German researchers working on a research initiative to decarbonized the steel industry unveiled a modified hydrogen Tesla that runs on synthetic fuel.

German Researchers Converted a Tesla Model Y Into a Hydrogen Car

By Dan Robitzski

A new chemical reactor seems to be able to take carbon dioxide and convert it into the building blocks for rocket fuel, making Mars journeys more feasible.

Scientists Say New Technique Could Turn Martian Air Into Rocket Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

MIT engineers managed to create an intensely powerful magnetic field in a very compact space, which they say is a huge step toward nuclear fusion energy.

MIT Announces “Major Advance” in Fusion Power

By Dan Robitzski

A team of physicists demonstrated that a nuclear fusion device called a stellerator could manage heats up to twice the temperature of the Sun's core.

Scientists Thrilled at Important Step Toward Practical Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists found that they could power a drone mid-flight using microwaves, and they say the same tech could someday launch spacecraft.

Japanese Scientists Propose Microwave-Powered Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski

A Tesla Megapack battery system erupted into flames shortly after being installed at a massive energy storage faciltiy in Australia.

Fire Breaks Out at Tesla Battery Power Station

By Dan Robitzski

The Indiana state government, Purdue University scientists, and a German startup are collaborating on new roads that automatically charge electric vehicles.

Electric Vehicles

Indiana Prepares To Test New Roads That Charge Electric Vehicles

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to new restrictions on the energy usage of personal electronics, powerful Alienware gaming computers are now banned in California.

New Gaming PC Consumes so Much Power That It’s Banned in California

By Dan Robitzski

In order to meet the industry's incredible energy demands, crypto miners are buying and setting up shop inside existing power plants.

Crypto Miners Are Buying Up Entire Power Plants

By Dan Robitzski

A prominent lobbyist for ExxonMobil admitted that the company actively fights climate science and climate change legislation in secret.

In Secret Recording, ExxonMobil Lobbyist Brags About Only Pretending to Care About Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Oil companies like Shell are actively trying to rehabilitate their image by paying social media influencers to paint them in a good light.

Oh No, Oil Companies Are Paying Social Media Influencers Now

By Dan Robitzski

A farmer in Wales built his own Bitcoin mine, which he powers by burning the methane emitted from his cows' decomposing turds.

A Farmer Is Using Cow Turds to a Power Bitcoin Mining Operation

By Dan Robitzski

Cobalt mining is ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as miners are kept in poverty and live around mines that poison the environment.

Electric Car Batteries Are Turning This Country Into an Actual Hellscape

By Dan Robitzski

While installing more wind farms will probably be a crucial part of fighting climate change, putting them too close together could be self-defeating.

Scientists Say That Building Too Many Wind Turbines Weakens the Wind’s Power

By Dan Robitzski

Physicist Melvin Vopson argues that digital information contains a fundamental amount of mass and should be considered a new form of matter.

Physicist Claims That Information Is a New Form of Matter

By Dan Robitzski

British police raided a facility they thought was hiding an indoor police farm because of its heat signature but found a Bitcoin mine instead.

Police Raid Suspected Weed Growery, Find Bitcoin Mine Instead

By Dan Robitzski

The Colonial Pipeline cyberattack is causing gas shortages throughout the American Southeast as drivers wait in long lines to stock up.

Americans Are Hoarding Gas as Gas Stations Run Out of Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

The Biden administration just greenlit the first large-scale offshore wind farm in the United States, and experts expect more to follow soon.

White House Approves United States’ First Massive Offshore Wind Farm

By Dan Robitzski

New simulations show that a compact fusion reactor with compressed plasma would actually produce more electricity than it takes in.

Simulation Shows This Fusion Reactor Doing Something Amazing

By Dan Robitzski

Low-tech Magazine's entire site is powered by solar panels on the author's balcony. It's part of a plan to make the internet less energy-intensive.

This Magazine’s Website Is 100 Percent Solar Powered

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a way to turn food scraps into viable jet fuel that burns cleaner than traditional petroleum fuels and works with the planes we have today.

Food Waste Could Power the Jet Engines We’re Currently Flying With, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Citizens were outraged after the mayor of the Japanese town Suttsu volunteered to be considered as a nucelar waste storage site.

Japanese Mayor’s House Firebombed to Protest Nuclear Power

By Dan Robitzski

Another earthquake hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Saturday, further complicating the effort to manage and decommission it.

Another Earthquake Nails the Crumbling Fukushima Power Plant

By Dan Robitzski

Shell just announced that it plans to decrease oil production by a small amount every year for the rest of its existence.

Shell Says Oil Production Will Fall Every Year, Forever

By Dan Robitzski

The only carbon capture plant in the United States shut down because it was entirely financially dependent on the success of the fossil fuel industry.

The Only Carbon Capture Plant in the US Just Shut Down

By Dan Robitzski

A rocket startup called bluShift successfully test-launched a rocket that runs on a proprietary kind of farm-grown biofuel.

Startup Tests Spacecraft That Runs on Farm-Grown Rocket Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

Electric vehicles are poised to finally become cheaper than their gas-burning counterparts thanks to improvements in battery manufacturing.

Advanced Transport

Electric Cars Are About to Become Cheaper Than Gas Ones

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed a trick that generates methanol fuel out of water and carbon dioxide without using any fossil fuels.

New Trick Turns Air Into Synthetic Gasoline Without Using Any Fossil Fuels

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, we could theoretically extract energy from the enormous amounts of emissions emanating from black holes.

Physicists Outline Plan to Harvest Energy From Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

The Russian oil company Gazpromneft built a Bitcoin mining facility in its Siberian oil field to make use of energy from excess gases.

Russian Oil Company Builds Bitcoin Farm in Siberia

By Dan Robitzski