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Artificial intelligence could soon outpace Bitcoin mining in energy consumption, according to Alex de Vries-Gao, a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’s Institute for Environmental Studies. His research estimates that by the end of 2025, AI c…
Whether General Motors survives “depends in part on whether its bets on battery technology pay off,” writes the Wall Street Journal.
At $33,600 the company’s Chevy Equinox is one of the cheapest EVs in America (only $5,000 more than the gas-powered m…
“In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia’s rivers flowing south, instead of its natural route north…” remembers the BBC.
[T]he Soviet Union simultaneously fired three nuclear devices buried 127m (417ft) undergr…
In early 2025, U.S. solar power production jumped 44% compared to the previous year, driven by end-of-year construction to capture tax incentives and long-term cost advantages. “The bad news is that, in contrast to China, solar’s growth hasn’t been eno…
Spain’s grid operator has accused some large power plants of not doing their job to help regulate the country’s electricity system in the moments before last month’s catastrophic blackout across the Iberian peninsula. From a report: Beatriz Corredor, c…
An anonymous reader shares a report: Germany has dropped its long-held opposition to nuclear power, in the first concrete sign of rapprochement with France by Berlin’s new government led by conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
Berlin has signalled…
“The Danish government plans to evaluate the prospect of beginning a nuclear power programme,” reports the Telegraph, noting that this week Denmark lifted a nuclear power ban imposed 40 years ago.
Unlike its neighbours in Sweden and Germany, Denmark …
TechCrunch reports:
The world’s only net-positive fusion experiment has been steadily ramping up the amount of power it produces, TechCrunch has learned.
In recent attempts, the team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)…
The only nuclear power plant still operating in Taiwan was shut down on Saturday, reports Japan’s public media organization NHK:
People in Taiwan have grown increasingly concerned about nuclear safety in recent years, especially after the 2011 nuclear…
This is a weird story:
U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them, two people familiar with the matter said.
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Over the past nine months, undocumented communication devices, including cellular radios, have also been found in some batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers, one of them said.
Reuters was unable to determine how many solar power inverters and batteries they have looked at…