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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 chang…

Renters in Australia are secretly using plug-in batteries as demand for cheap solar power outpaces safety rules and ...
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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

Canada begins building the first grid scale SMR in a G7 nation, using a massive buried foundation and a reactor designed to ...
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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 intellige…

Wind turbines were built to make electricity, but engineers now say their towers could do something far more unexpected. A ...
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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 seco…

Scientists turn wet coffee waste into a coal-like fuel in just 90 seconds using a high-temperature plasma process.
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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-ho…

If Morgan Stanley’s scenario plays out, the biggest shock may hit the materials market. The bank says sodium-ion batteries ...
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Río Beach, whose recovery seemed impossible for years, now attracts more than 300 early-morning swimmers and hosts open-water swimming schools in a spot that al…

A Rio beach once known for polluted water is now attracting swimmers again as cleanup efforts begin to show results.
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A town in Extremadura called Miajadas has just launched an initiative that seems like a laboratory experiment but is already yielding results: converting green hydrogen a…

A small town in western Spain has turned a big energy idea into a working plant. In Miajadas, in the Extremadura region, ...
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The Italian forest, which appeared healthy from a distance, concealed ecological degradation dating back nearly 100 years, and scientists discovered that its fir trees …

A forest in Italy looked healthy, but scientists found it had lost over half its plant diversity after decades of monoculture ...
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Researchers believe they have identified one of the most dangerous aspects of antibiotic use: a point at which bacteria are more likely to develop resistance

Researchers identify the antibiotic concentration where bacteria may be most likely to develop dangerous drug resistance.
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Say goodbye to the old idea of generating a lot of solar energy and then forgetting about it, because batteries, time-of-use rates, and self-consumption are starting to …

Home solar is no longer just about generating power, batteries and timing are now key to cutting electricity bills.
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It all started with an old 1972 trailer; now, a family is building a huge earthen house in the middle of the desert, powered by solar energy and rainwater, without relying o…

In Arizona’s high desert, Jonathan and Ashley Longnecker are trying something many families talk about but few actually ...
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A 15-year-old student has built a generator for just $12 using a propeller, a PVC pipe, and recycled parts, and her idea is once again drawing attention because it could ...

A teen built a $12 device that turns ocean currents into electricity, raising hopes for remote coastal communities.