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A Swedish company just bolted a 131-foot rigid wing sail onto a working car carrier and sent it straight back to its transatlantic route, betting the wing can shave a tenth off the fuel bill while drawing the power of a few electric kettles to trim itself

By Luis Reyes—Jul 6, 2026
Energy

America just took three brand-new nuclear reactors critical in thirty days, a first for any country, machines the size of shipping containers, one of them built in 150 days on a single-digit-million budget with a core its founder drove to Idaho in the back of a Ford F-150

By Luis Reyes—Jul 6, 2026
Energy

Australia just switched on a 300-ton machine whose entire job is to spin in place, a giant motor with nothing bolted to its shaft that burns no fuel and makes no power, and its steady spinning just unlocked 600 megawatts of wind and solar that were stuck waiting to connect

By Luis Reyes—Jul 6, 2026
Energy

A new solid-metal nuclear fuel just survived six months of accelerated punishment inside America’s most powerful test reactor, packing in the wear of a decade inside a power plant, and came out ready for the teardown that decides if it replaces the ceramic pellets reactors have burned for 50 years

By Luis Reyes—Jul 5, 2026
Energy

A Florida startup just unveiled the world’s first full-scale 3D-printed nuclear reactor module, a ceramic sphere with 2-millimeter channels winding through it in a shape no lathe on Earth can cut, designed so it physically cannot melt down: cut the neutron supply and the reaction simply stops

By Luis Reyes—Jul 5, 2026
Energy

Arizona raised solar panels on stilts over its crops so one acre could grow food and make power at once — then researchers noticed a third job nobody put in the brochure: skin under the panels runs 21 degrees cooler, in a country where crop workers are 20 times more likely to die of heat

By Luis Reyes—Jul 5, 2026
Energy

A twisted German fusion machine held fusion’s key performance number for 43 seconds, beating every donut-shaped tokamak at the long game with five times less heating power than the old champion — fed by about 90 frozen hydrogen pellets from a one-of-a-kind injector built in Tennessee

By Luis Reyes—Jul 5, 2026
Energy

Austrian scientists just caught a ceramic that engineers have used since the 1990s doing chemistry nobody knew existed — turning CO2 and water vapor into ready-to-burn methane in a single step, on one electrode, instead of the two full plants the job takes today

By Luis Reyes—Jul 5, 2026
Energy

America just issued the world’s first licenses for a fusion power plant, a reactor with no turbine, no cooling tower and no steam — a 60-foot tube built to slam two plasma rings together at a million miles per hour and harvest the recoil as electricity, the way an EV harvests its braking

By Luis Reyes—Jul 4, 2026
Energy

New York just switched on the longest fully buried power line in North America, two grapefruit-thick cables hauling Canadian hydropower 339 miles under Lake Champlain, the Hudson and city streets — up to 20% of New York City’s electricity, and you could stand right on top and never know

By Luis Reyes—Jul 4, 2026
Energy

China just lifted a 1,000-ton conical lid onto a reactor, 134 feet across with a water tank riding on top, built so the plant can cool itself with gravity alone — an American design going up at a speed the American version never found, next to the world’s tallest seawater cooling tower

By Luis Reyes—Jul 4, 2026
Industry

India just pushed its 10-coach hydrogen train to 120 km/h, the last engineering test between the world’s longest hydrogen trainset and paying passengers — 2,600 seats where even the air conditioning runs on hydrogen, now one compliance file away from service

By Luis Reyes—Jul 4, 2026
Energy

German scientists just set the world record for turning sunlight into hydrogen: 31.3 percent of the sun’s raw energy became fuel, outdoors, in real weather — from a rig the size of a dessert plate that wires satellite-grade solar cells straight into the electrolyzer, nothing in between

By Luis Reyes—Jul 4, 2026
Energy

China just tested a 582-ton superconducting magnet, the largest ever built for fusion — a D-shaped ring as heavy as 300 pickup trucks, made to pen a plasma cloud hotter than the Sun’s core in mid-air — and every piece of it, wire to steel, was made at home

By Luis Reyes—Jul 3, 2026
Energy

America just trucked a complete 100-megawatt hydrogen plant to West Texas on skids — stacks, power electronics, water treatment, all factory-built and pressure-tested before it left the shop — headed for the site its owner says will be the largest e-fuels factory on Earth in 2027

By Luis Reyes—Jul 3, 2026
Energy

German scientists just built a solar panel that passes for terracotta, brick or stone from the street, at the world’s biggest solar trade show — the color comes from butterfly-wing physics bending light, the tiles are cut with a laser, and the disguise costs 5 percent of the output

By Luis Reyes—Jul 3, 2026
Energy

A 23,000-pound magnet the size of a school bus, wound from copper and fiberglass in Spain, just flew across the Atlantic to revive America’s flagship compact fusion machine — a reactor that ran for all of 10 weeks and has spent nearly ten years in pieces since

By Luis Reyes—Jul 3, 2026
Energy

Three Mile Island Unit 1 Restart for Microsoft Set for 2027

By Luis Reyes—Jul 2, 2026
Energy

Torus Nova Spin Flywheel: 7-Ton Wheel Stores Power for Data Centers

By Luis Reyes—Jul 2, 2026
Energy

Sun-Ways Solar Panels Between Swiss Rails Survive 11,000 Trains

By Luis Reyes—Jul 2, 2026
Energy

Dutch Floating Solar Farm: Fish and Invertebrates Thrive Under Panels

By Luis Reyes—Jul 2, 2026
Energy

Oklo Sodium-Cooled Reactor Cleared to Build, Using Old EBR-II Fuel

By Luis Reyes—Jul 1, 2026
Energy

Kudankulam: India Installs 320-Ton Russian Reactor Vessel

By Luis Reyes—Jul 1, 2026
Energy

Solarcycle Opens Georgia Solar Panel Recycling Plant in Cedartown

By Luis Reyes—Jul 1, 2026
Energy

UK Welds Reactor Vessel Shut in Under 24 Hours With Electron Beam

By Luis Reyes—Jul 1, 2026
Energy

Copenhagen Atomics Thorium Reactor Fits in a Shipping Container

By Luis Reyes—Jul 1, 2026
Energy

A gas well in northern Minnesota holds some of the richest helium-3 ever measured on Earth, rich enough to rival lunar soil, and two US federal labs ran the gas blind and landed on the same number, an isotope so rare a single liter costs more than a car

By Luis Reyes—Jun 30, 2026
Energy

Valar Atomics Airlifts Nuclear Reactor to Utah on C-17, Goes Critical

By Luis Reyes—Jun 30, 2026
Energy

IBM just fit nearly 100 billion transistors onto a chip the size of a fingernail by stacking them into floors instead of shrinking them, ending a fifty-year race that had finally run out of room as the switches shrank down to the size of atoms

By Luis Reyes—Jun 30, 2026
Energy

Volkswagen Tennessee Solar Farm Uses Sheep and a Guard Donkey

By Luis Reyes—Jun 30, 2026
Energy

Utah Test Reactor Goes Critical in Race for July 4 Deadline

By Luis Reyes—Jun 30, 2026
Energy

Leith’s Yellow ‘Minions’ Are Transition Pieces for a North Sea Wind Farm

By Luis Reyes—Jun 30, 2026
Energy

General Fusion Compresses Plasma to 8.4 Million Degrees With Lithium Can

By Luis Reyes—Jun 29, 2026
Energy

Yellowstone Hydrothermal Explosion Opens 61-Foot Crack and Boiling Pool

By Luis Reyes—Jun 29, 2026
Energy

South Korea Puts 14-Ton Hydrogen Excavator With Solid-Hydrogen Tank to Work

By Luis Reyes—Jun 29, 2026
Energy

CANDU Reactor Proposed for the US: Runs on Natural Uranium

By Luis Reyes—Jun 29, 2026
Energy

TVA’s 300 MW BWRX-300 Reactor Planned at Oak Ridge

By Luis Reyes—Jun 29, 2026
Energy

Ireland Approves Energy Dome CO2 Battery for Google: 200 MWh

By Luis Reyes—Jun 29, 2026
Energy

China Thorium Molten Salt Reactor Refuels While Running

By Luis Reyes—Jun 28, 2026
Energy

Paks II: Hungary Digs 23-Meter Pit for 330-Ton Reactor Vessel

By Luis Reyes—Jun 28, 2026
Energy

Bats Decline 86% at English Solar Farms, Study of 19 Sites Finds

By Luis Reyes—Jun 28, 2026
Energy

Eavor’s German Geothermal Plant: CEO Admits Clogged Loops, Budget Spent

By Luis Reyes—Jun 28, 2026
Energy

Sizewell C: UK Reactor Copy Aims to Be 20% Cheaper Than Hinkley

By Luis Reyes—Jun 28, 2026
Energy

Solar-Powered Trash Interceptor Pulls 143,710 Pounds From LA Creek

By Luis Reyes—Jun 28, 2026
Energy

CRRC Velforce: Locomotive With Battery, Hydrogen or Diesel-Hybrid Power

By Luis Reyes—Jun 28, 2026
Energy

Magma Reservoir Under Tuscany Powers World’s Oldest Geothermal Plant

By Luis Reyes—Jun 27, 2026
Energy

Pigs Graze Under 109,000 Solar Panels at Alberta Solar Farm

By Luis Reyes—Jun 27, 2026
Energy

Bruce Power Swaps Eight Steam Generators, Restarts Reactor 7 Months Early

By Luis Reyes—Jun 27, 2026
Energy

Project Nexus: California Solar Canals Cut Water Evaporation

By Luis Reyes—Jun 27, 2026
Energy

Robots Install 100 MW of Solar Panels in California Desert

By Luis Reyes—Jun 26, 2026
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