Environment
China has begun building the world’s largest compressed air energy storage facility in caves.
In China, the success of the first stage of a system to store excess renewable energy in compressed air in…
Google and others have paid millions of dollars for rocks scattered across fields that will supposedly remove CO2 from the air.
The young American company Terradot has just received a $27 million tranche for a pilot program in Brazil to naturally…
Samsung announced the world’s first refrigerator with Peltier elements and AI
In January in Las Vegas at CES 2025, Samsung Electronics intends to present new refrigerators with hybrid cooling technology controlled…
A solar power plant has been built in China that generates energy day and night.
Chinese company SDIC Gansu New Energy has commissioned the 750 MW Akesai Huidong solar power plant in Gansu province. It…
US will face power shortages due to AI as early as 2025, industry regulator warns
The North American power grid is facing "critical reliability issues" as power production fails to keep up with growing demand…
The earth tilted 80 centimeters
Over the past 20 years, the Earth has tilted 80 centimeters due to intensive pumping of groundwater. An intervention of…
German police demolish the camp of protesters against the Tesla plant, but they hold their defense in the trees
Yesterday, German police announced the start of demolition of a forest camp of environmental activists protesting against the expansion of…
Bourbon waste could become a source of clean energy
In the next five years, production of bourbon—corn whiskey—in Kentucky is projected to double. At the same time, the state's…
In Finland, a thermal battery with a capacity of 100 MWh on soapstone will undergo winter testing
At the end of October, Finnish startup Polar Night Energy completed filling a thermal storage tank with 2,000 tons of…
Climate change cannot be defeated: emissions are rising, and China is ahead of everyone in green energy
Against the backdrop of the COP29 climate summit, Bloomberg published an article about the prospects for combating looming climate change.…