Toyota and BMW are two of the latest automakers to announce they’re adopting Tesla’s North American Charging System (NACS) plug for their North American EVs, giving drivers access to Tesla’s Supercharger network. Ars Technica reports: BMW’s announcemen…

A Croatian energy company has discovered an underwater lake of superheated water that meets all the requirements for the construction of a 16MW geothermal power plant. The Next Web reports: The find was the result of a two-year study by state-run power…

Federal regulators have issued a preliminary “yellow” warning to Dominion Energy after cracks were discovered again in a backup emergency fuel line at their South Carolina nuclear plant. ABC News reports: Small cracks have been found a half-dozen times…

Hyundai and Kia said on Thursday that they will adopt Tesla’s electric vehicle charging technology in the United States. Reuters reports: Joining their global peers, including Ford Motor, General Motors and Nissan in adopting Tesla’s North American Cha…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Thirteen US states are now implementing underground thermal energy networks to reduce buildings’ carbon emissions as part of a nationwide push to adopt cleaner energy sources. Thermal ener…

This week America’s Department of Energy announced $264 million for 29 projects as part of its Energy Earthshots Initiative “to advance clean energy technologies within the decade.”

The funding will support 11 new research centers — along with …

An anonymous reader shares this report from Futurism:

Training large language models is an incredibly power-intensive process that has an immense carbon footprint. Keeping data centers running requires a ludicrous amount of electricity that could gene…

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There is a theoretical, magic tipping point for adoption of electric vehicles. Once somewhere between 5 and 10 percent of new car sales are all-electric, some re…

America’s Department of Defense recently exercised a contract option with X-energy, a private nuclear reactor engineering company, seeking “a thorough analysis of design options” for a transportable micro nuclear reactor. The Department says its ultima…

An anonymous reader writes: Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, has a problem. Although the company is famous for pioneering lean methods of manufacturing and being an early pioneer of hybrid electric powertrains, the switch to battery electric vehi…