Environment

The semiconductor industry lost its only source of pure quartz – everything was ruined by a hurricane

Hurricane Helen, which recently struck North Carolina, caused severe flooding and damage across a wide area. Among the affected areas…

2 months ago

Westinghouse ready for mass production of eVinci nuclear microreactors

Westinghouse Electric has completed the operations necessary to begin mass production of its advanced eVinci nuclear microreactors. She submitted a…

2 months ago

Firebricks will become a popular and cheap storage of green energy

A group of scientists at Stanford University published a paper in which they predicted the growth rate of thermal accumulation…

2 months ago

A flying shopping cart has been built in South Korea

Scientists from Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech) have developed a flying platform for moving cargo without contact…

2 months ago

Leclanché introduced the world’s first lithium-niobium battery for heavy equipment – it will withstand 10 thousand recharge cycles

The Swiss company Leclanché SA presented, in its words, the world's first lithium-niobium battery for electric heavy equipment, designed for…

2 months ago

China has created the world’s most capacious battery in a standard 6-meter container – 8 MWh

The transition to renewable energy does not make sense without networked energy storage devices that would smooth out peaks in…

2 months ago

China has created the world’s most capacious battery in a standard 6-meter container – 8 MWh

The transition to renewable energy does not make sense without networked energy storage devices that would smooth out peaks in…

2 months ago

The world’s largest 30-MW flywheel energy storage device has launched in China.

China has become a testing ground for promising energy storage devices, among which the newly launched flywheel-based buffer power plant…

2 months ago

Google has invested in directly removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a record low price

Google struck a deal to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a bargain price: $100 per tonne of CO₂,…

2 months ago

Carbon dioxide emissions from data centers will amount to 2.5 billion tons by 2030

The data center boom is expected to push the industry's carbon emissions to 2.5 billion tons by the end of…

3 months ago