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…

On August 30th a scientific paper discussed lithium in an extinct volcano in the western United States. But would it also increase supplies of a crucial battery-making ingredient?

“The mining industry is seldom that simple,” argues Bloomberg’s Energy…