Fervo Energy says it has achieved a breakthrough in geothermal technology. It carried out a 30-day well test at its site in northern Nevada and says it was able to achieve a “flowrate of 63 liters per second at high temperature that enables 3.5 megawatts of electric production.” The company Read more…
VanMoof — the independent e-bike maker that once bragged about being the “most funded e-bike company in the world” — has been declared bankrupt in the Netherlands. The company had entered into a so-called “suspension of payment” proceeding with court-assigned administrators just last week. From a report: According to a Read more…
Tesla has officially launched its new ‘Charge on Solar’ feature to let its electric car owners charge their vehicles with sunshine. Tesla describes the feature: “With Charge on Solar, your Tesla vehicle can charge using only excess solar energy produced by your Tesla solar system. Using excess energy to charge Read more…
Wikipedia notes that “Today, the Moon has no active volcanoes even though a significant amount of magma may persist under the lunar surface.” But this week the New York Times reports that “The rocks beneath an ancient volcano on the moon’s far side remain surprisingly warm, scientists have revealed using Read more…
Newly raised concerns about lead-covered telephone cables installed across the US many decades ago are putting pressure on companies like AT&T and Verizon to identify the locations of all the cables and account for any health problems potentially caused by the toxic metal. US Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) wrote a Read more…
Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called “impossible early galaxy problem.” “Our newly-devised model stretches the galaxy formation time by a several billion years, making the universe 26.7 billion Read more…
New military and commercial craft aim to go far higher than jumbo jets and stay there for months, offering more flexible alternative to satellites. This month a drone took off from a missile range in New Mexico and climbed into the stratosphere, joining a race to deliver unmanned aerial vehicles Read more…