Energy

Installation of a nuclear reactor pressure vessel at a construction site in China

What China wants from nuclear power is bigger than electricity, because this reactor surge is being built to harden factories, data, and autonomy

April 19, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Portable battery backup system designed for blackouts by a teenage entrepreneur in Florida

What this teenage entrepreneur built for blackouts looks far bigger than a school project, because portable energy is where outages turn personal

April 17, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Retrofitted electric freight truck used by PepsiCo operating on a logistics corridor in India

PepsiCo has turned 8 diesel trucks into electric logistics machines, and the bigger story is how retrofit is entering heavy transport for real

April 15, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Hydrogen-powered aircraft engine test on an unmanned cargo plane during a short demonstration flight in China

The aircraft engine no one expected to see flying this soon just ran on hydrogen, and China is using it to push aviation beyond fossil fuel logic

April 14, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Floating spherical wave energy device Ocean-2 in the ocean designed to generate electricity from wave motion

A strange floating sphere is being sent into the ocean with one objective, because the next big renewable prize may be hiding in the waves

April 14, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Salton Sea shoreline with geothermal facilities in the background, highlighting lithium extraction efforts in California’s Lithium Valley.

A poisoned lake is sitting on white gold for the battery era, and the race to turn that buried treasure into industrial power is getting real

April 13, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Oil tankers navigating the Strait of Hormuz as regional tensions disrupt global energy flows and impact export revenues.

What looks like one regional oil disaster is splitting the Middle East in two, with some governments losing billions and others cashing in fast

April 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Deep geothermal plant in Cornwall generating electricity while extracting lithium from underground brine for battery production.

The underground project that looked like a power plant hidden in rock is now promising two prizes at once: an oil alternative and battery metal

April 10, 2026 at 6:00 PM
High-altitude Andes mountains landscape with potential copper mining exploration area

Not just copper, but a strategic mountain-sized resource: the Andes may be hiding an energy jackpot with a brutal extraction problem

April 9, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Geothermal energy plant in the UK extracting heat and lithium from deep underground wells

The U.K. is turning water into the next energy fight, with a new technology that wants to break oil’s grip when prices are surging again

April 8, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Wind tree with multiple microturbines generating renewable energy in a residential backyard

Not rooftop solar, but a wind tree: one 36-turbine system is turning a backyard into a small-scale energy plant with zero-bill ambition

April 7, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Homemade solar-powered ice storage cooling system in Florida using thermal energy to shift air conditioning demand

Not lithium, but ice: a homemade solar rig in Florida is turning thermal storage into the kind of cooling system hot climates may start needing more

April 6, 2026 at 1:45 PM
floating offshore wind turbine platform in open sea designed to support integrated AI data center infrastructure.

Offshore wind is no longer just about electricity, because engineers now want each floating turbine to become a cooled AI machine in the open sea

April 6, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Harvard solar prototype panel that switches between electricity and heat generation based on temperature conditions

Not just electricity, but heat: Harvard’s new solar system is turning seasonal weather into the switch that tells a building what to harvest

April 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM
1969 Ford Thunderbird Landau with low mileage showcased after resale attempt at higher price

The real reason this 14,000-mile Ford Thunderbird is blowing up is simple: someone paid $25,000, barely moved it and came back asking $38,000

April 5, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Ras Laffan LNG facilities in Qatar after damage that disrupted exports and triggered global gas supply concerns

The fight over global gas is getting bigger, as Qatar warns that one of the world’s key export engines may stay impaired for years

April 4, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Single-family home with backyard deck and visible power lines, representing residential electricity use and energy costs

Maine just changed the rules on electric bills, and the new push for affordability could reshape how families feel every rate hike

April 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Homemade low-cost solar tracker using water and gravity to tilt a panel toward the sun without motors or electricity

For the first time, a 13-year-old built a solar tracker for under $25 that could squeeze more power from sunlight without motors or electricity

April 4, 2026 at 9:00 AM
offshore oil platform near Santa Barbara coastline linked to restarted production and pipeline operations

Chevron is buying oil from Santa Barbara’s most controversial restart, and the deal is reopening a fight California thought it had buried after the spill

April 2, 2026 at 7:45 AM
power outage in Cuba with dark streets and limited lighting highlighting the national electricity crisis

A power system that barely covers half of demand may now require billions to recover, exposing how deep Cuba’s electricity crisis has really become

April 1, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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