Credit to Author: Rahul Mewawalla| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:26:54 +0000
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is transforming our world, but it comes with an insatiable surge in data centers that are powered by an ever-growing appetite for energy. As AI […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 14:13:00 +0000
The Department of Energy (DOE) unveiled plans on Sept. 27 to inject $1.3 billion into its portfolio of federally funded carbon capture demonstration and large-scale pilot programs by the end […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 12:09:54 +0000
Project Tundra, a demonstration project that seeks to capture an average of 4 million tons of carbon dioxide from flue gas from two lignite-fired units at the 705-MW Milton R. […]
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Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:33:26 +0000
Space-based solar power (SBSP) could prove transformative to global energy demand by providing price-efficient, continuous clean energy from orbit (Figure 1). Recent developments, including low-cost space access, mass-produced satellites, robotics, […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:59:33 +0000
A project that will demonstrate the conversion of a former coal mine in Bell County, Kentucky, into a utility-scale 287-MW pumped storage hydroelectric facility has garnered federal backing from the […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:27:37 +0000
The UK government has narrowed its shortlist of technologies competing in its flagship Small Modular Reactor (SMR) competition to four candidates. On Sept. 25, it announced that Westinghouse, GE-Hitachi Nuclear […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:29:06 +0000
Google’s top executive confirmed the company is working on large-scale data centers that would use more than 1 GW of power. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, in a […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:11:34 +0000
The U.S. Department of the Air Force has awarded Sage Geosystems an initial $1.9 million contract to demonstrate its pioneering geothermal baseload power and energy storage system at an off-site […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:10:51 +0000
Energy giant Equinor said it will not export blue hydrogen from Norway to Germany due to economics and a lack of demand. Equinor on September 20 said it would discontinue […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:52:11 +0000
Fusion energy is a promising form of power generation that aims to harness the same process that powers the sun and stars. Fusion involves combining two light atomic nuclei to […]
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