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Glen Canyon Dam cools the Colorado River to stop invasive fish, a counterintuitive strategy that worked through 2024 and beyond
Cooling releases at Glen Canyon Dam blocked smallmouth bass recruitment in 2024, and early 2025 monitoring also found none.
On February 12, 2008, a Danish offshore wind farm produced strange white trails behind its turbines, and scientists discovered that the rotating blades were mixing the layers of air with enough intensity to contribute to fog formation
Golden eagles over Wyoming may miss wind turbines, a blind spot in their vision that makes renewables unexpectedly dangerous
China has already altered the Earth’s rotation with a mega infrastructure project and is now planning a project that will triple the power of the Three Gorges Dam
A 700-ton hammer was built to drive gigantic wind turbine foundations into the seabed, and its 7,500-kilojoule blows show just how enormous offshore wind construction has become
India launched its first hydrogen-powered train, and in just eight days, it had already traveled more than 1,200 kilometers without using diesel, resulting in savings of more than 3,200 liters of fuel
Scientists directly connected the solar panels, battery, and heat pump of a 208-square-meter home and discovered that the usual path of the electricity was causing a daily waste of energy
Spain’s Vortex Bladeless built a wind turbine that sways instead of spinning, and it would take 34,000 of them to match a single modern turbine
A half-mile strip of solar panels now floats over an irrigation canal in India, generating power for the grid while blocking evaporation from the water below
- Saharan dust drifting into Europe has grown by up to 25% over nearly a decade, and it’s starting to cloud the continent’s bet on solar power
- Australia’s home battery installations fell more than 70% in a single month, from 80,000 in April to just over 20,000 in May, after the rebate rules changed
- The Pentagon has put 155 wind projects on hold, and the reason is not the turbines but what military radars may fail to see
- A $100 battery printed in Belfast could replace expensive lab equipment, and the breakthrough may change how scientists test renewable energy storage
- Scientists turned mixed plastic waste into hydrogen fuel without sorting it first, and the carbon problem did not escape the reactor
- Only 24% of Australian battery owners will hand control to an operator, even though it nearly doubles their savings, a really hard sell in the words of one energy boss
- A home built with tires keeps a steady 68 °F without heating or air conditioning, a sustainable oddity that turns trash into comfort
- He buried tubes in his yard and cooled his house without air conditioning using an old geothermal system, a simple idea that sounds very tempting when the heat gets nasty
- A new sodium-metal battery charges in just 4 minutes and keeps its capacity for years, a number that sounds like a serious hit against today’s battery limits
- Octopus Energy launched a plug-in home battery, an idea that wants to make storing electricity at home almost as simple as plugging in another appliance
- A Polish energy giant wants to build 14 small nuclear reactors in Britain, and the 2034 deadline may be the hardest part to believe
- A German engineer and an American developer created a hydropower plant without big dams, a quieter idea that aims to draw power from rivers without breaking them apart so much
- After the home battery boom, the humble water heater could become the next big hidden battery at home, storing energy without most people even noticing
- Denmark is studying an artificial energy island in the North Sea that could power up to 10 million homes by 2040, basically a giant offshore outlet in the middle of the sea
- Steelmaking is returning to Newcastle, but this time with renewables and no fossil gas, a historic industrial comeback for a city that never fully let go of its steel past
- An Indian billionaire secured 500 hectares to build a massive project in Africa, and the move already feels like one of those bets that could reshape an entire region’s economy
- German scientists have managed to convert up to 31.3% of sunlight directly into hydrogen, a number that puts the race for clean fuel from nothing but sun and chemistry on a whole new level
- A new study says linking solar panels, batteries, and heat pumps with direct current could save up to 16.7% on electricity, and the trick is avoiding invisible conversions happening inside the home
- What appears to be a simple supermarket product could be hiding a small energy revolution: a 2.24-kWh battery that costs about $350 and is already attracting attention across Europe
- Across Australia, people are quietly plugging illegal batteries into their apartment walls, and the underground rush to power balconies with the sun is forcing a change few saw coming
- A quiet town in northern Italy could wake to find 14,000 solar panels planted on a field wedged between their homes, and the residents’ revolt exposed something no one expected
- Canada buried a 1,050-ton slab east of Toronto to seat the first grid-scale nuclear reactor a G7 nation has ever built, and how it cools itself breaks every rule
- While data centers strain power grids, consume water, and are a source of complaints on land, a San Francisco based company wants to move part of the artificial intelligence boom out to sea, inside floating wind turbines
- It all started with some coffee grounds that would normally have ended up in the trash; now, scientists have managed to turn them into a coal-like fuel in just 90 seconds
- The table salt in your kitchen could play an important role in the next big energy battle, as Morgan Stanley is already forecasting annual demand of 830 gigawatt-hours for sodium batteries by 2030
- Switzerland has just installed a small solar power plant between the tracks of an active railway line, and what seems impossible is that more than 11,000 trains have already passed over it without interrupting service