Extreme heat is breaking temperature records across Europe, early measurements suggest, and driving bigger and stronger wildfires. From a report: In south-west France, records were broken on Monday in Angouleme, Bergerac, Bordeaux, Saint-Emilion and Saint-Girons. Meteo France said the “often remarkable, even unprecedented, maximum temperatures” in the region were 12C Read more…
A French nuclear plant temporarily shut down on Monday due to a “massive and unpredictable presence of jellyfish” in its filters, its operator said. The swarm clogged up the cooling system and caused four units at the Gravelines nuclear power plant to automatically switch off, energy group EDF said. The Read more…
Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers… Some critics question whether states have the spine to take a hard line against tech behemoths like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta. [T]he Data Center Read more…
They haven’t built a spacecraft for travelling to our nearest star system. But engineers have designed a spacecraft that could take up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to Alpha Centauri. The craft, called Chrysalis, could make the 25 trillion mile (40 trillion kilometer) journey in around 400 years, Read more…
One of America’s largest solar + battery storage projects is now fully online in Mojave, California. Arevon Energy’s Eland Solar-plus-Storage Project combines 758 megawatts (MWdc) of solar with 300 MW/1,200 megawatt hours of battery storage. Eland 1 reached commercial operation in December 2024, and Eland 2 recently commenced full operation. Read more…
California’s biggest electric utilities pulled off a record-breaking test during the 7pm-9pm window that is typically its time of peak demand as people come home from work. Pacific Gas & Electric and other top California power companies switched on residential batteries in more than 100,000 homes and drew power from Read more…
The Chinese government has embarked on an all-out drive to transform the technology from a remote concept to a newfangled reality, with applications on factory floors and in hospitals and government offices… “[E]xperts say Beijing is pursuing an alternative playbook in an attempt to bridge the gap” with America: “aggressively Read more…