Classic classroom toy 'dippy bird' inspires scientists to build electricity generator ~engineering Link 9 votes
Canada to expedite approval of new nuclear projects, energy minister says ~enviro Article 937 words 19 votes
Power companies are scrambling to satisfy the needs of data centers and new factories in the US ~enviro Article 77 words 22 votes
The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea ~engineering Video 33:45 26 votes
Cheap electricity is luring Chinese Bitcoin miners to Ethiopia ~enviro energy Article 77 words 7 votes
State of emergency has been declared in Iceland after lava from a volcanic eruption damaged key hot water pipes ~enviro Article 460 words 22 votes
Research samples collected over decades at Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet were destroyed when a freezer malfunctioned during the Christmas holidays ~science medicine Article 311 words 30 votes
Over two percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin ~enviro energy Article 799 words 42 votes
Can hydrogen help the world reach net zero? ~enviro energy Video 24:46, published Jun 14 2023 14 votes
UK and Denmark launch Viking Link underwater cable project – potential to transport enough electricity to power up to 2.5 million UK homes ~enviro energy.renewable Link 13 votes
Wind overtakes coal for electricity generation in Europe ~enviro energy.renewable Article 800 words 13 votes
All I want for Christmas is one terawatt of solar deployed annually ~enviro energy.renewable Article 911 words 36 votes
Greek ‘green’ islands: Electricity bills plunge from €2,000 to €40 per year ~enviro energy.renewable Article 651 words, published Dec 12 2023 14 votes
New Google geothermal electricity project could be a milestone for clean energy ~enviro energy.renewable Article 649 words 18 votes
Giant batteries drain economics of gas power plants ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1217 words, published Nov 21 2023 19 votes
How electricity is changing, country by country ~enviro energy.renewable climate change Article 1457 words 15 votes
The next power plant is on the roof and in the basement ~enviro energy.renewable Article 2935 words 11 votes
Sweden's government has pledged to take an active role in securing financing for a massive buildout of nuclear power to meet an expected surge in electricity demand ~enviro Article 540 words 9 votes
Wind farms are building datacenters to offload electricity in non-peak hours ~enviro energy.renewable Video 12:11 16 votes
Norway's government risks crisis over a contentious package of EU energy bills ~enviro Article 589 words 5 votes
Gaza neonatal unit warns babies at risk 'within minutes' if power fails ~health medicine Article 629 words 15 votes
The world has already crossed a ‘tipping point’ [of the good kind] on solar power ~enviro energy.renewable Article 77 words 20 votes
Vermont utility plans to end outages by giving customers batteries ~enviro energy Article 1256 words 14 votes
A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed ~humanities.history Video 17:49, published Jul 24 2023 40 votes
Nigerian power grid in ‘total system collapse’. Generation falls to zero, with blackouts across most of Africa’s largest economy ~enviro energy Link 20 votes
US extremists keep trying to trigger mass blackouts — and that’s not even the scariest part ~enviro energy Article 2041 words, published Sep 10 2023 29 votes
Toyota takes its biggest US port off the grid with hydrogen system ~enviro energy.renewable Article 481 words, published Sep 7 2023 35 votes
Texas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wave ~enviro energy Article 540 words 41 votes
Power generation and distribution at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica ~engineering Article 4517 words 16 votes
Despite years of Maui wildfire warnings, Hawaii Electric the Hawaii utility giant did little and spent more on lobbying than prevention ~enviro Article 1295 words 27 votes
Power lines likely caused Maui’s first reported fire, video and data show ~enviro Article 2076 words 11 votes
Environmental experts have criticised the Swedish government's plan to build at least ten nuclear reactors in the next twenty years ~enviro Article 599 words 22 votes
The first US nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia ~enviro energy Article 796 words 64 votes
Butterfly flight inspired researchers to explore new ways to create force and electricity ~engineering Link 10 votes
Viking Link joins UK and Denmark power grids for first time – 765km high-voltage cable joins Bicker Fen in Lincolnshire with Jutland in Denmark ~enviro energy.renewable Article 42 words 10 votes
Heat and smoke are smothering most of the US, putting lives at risk ~enviro pollution.air Article 873 words 14 votes
Controversy over lack of renewable in plans to rebuild electrical grid in Puerto Rico ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1084 words 10 votes
A giant wind farm is taking root off Massachusetts ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1616 words 12 votes
Scientists working to generate electricity from thin air make breakthrough ~tech Article 985 words, published May 24 2023 19 votes