A Houston-based company has received funding that can help make world’s first superhot geothermal power plant. Quaise Energy, a leading developer of utility-scale superhot geothermal energy, today announced the final close of its Series B, raising a total of $180 million in equity financing, including a $35 million investment from Nabors Industries (NYSE: NBR), one...
Researchers in the US have developed a new electric plasma heating method that could significantly speed up the production of cement and at the same time slash its reliance on fossil fuels. The technique was developed by Qi Zheng, PhD, and Yi Cui, PhD, from Stanford University, along with Paulo Monteiro, PhD, a civil engineering...
The US state of Utah has signed an deal with clean energy company Deployable Energy Limited to explore one megawatt (1 MW) nuclear reactors small enough to fit inside a standard 20-foot (6-meter) shipping container. The Houston-based firm signed the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Utah Office of Energy Development (OED) on Tuesday, August...
Urenco plans to expand uranium enrichment capacity at its U.S. facility in New Mexico by nearly 50 percent, adding 2.1 million separative work units (SWU) to support rising domestic demand for nuclear fuel. The multi-billion-dollar project will install 24 cascades of gas centrifuges at the National Enrichment Facility in Eunice. The first cascades are scheduled...
The Port of Long Beach is moving forward with plans to explore small modular reactors (SMRs) that could eventually provide electricity for port operations and ships, potentially bringing a new nuclear power project to California for the first time in five decades. The effort involves Bluecore Energy, a startup developing small nuclear reactors designed to...
TRISO-X has extended its research and development agreement with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) by 30 months. The two organizations have worked together since 2016. Their joint effort centers on improving the chemical engineering methods used to manufacture tri-structural isotropic (TRISO) nuclear fuel. “ORNL has been a critical partner in transforming years of TRISO fuel...
Scientists in the US have identified nearly 63,000 promising materials that could advance solid-state battery technology and speed up the development of safer and higher-performing energy storage. The researchers at Cornell University used an artificial intelligence (AI) framework called IonNet to search millions of possible materials for fast-ion conductors that are critical components of solid-state...
Scientists have made a major breakthrough in solar energy technology by creating a novel material capable of directly converting sunlight into heat with unprecedented efficiency. The development centers on thin films of a specific titanium oxide phase, Ti₄O₇, and could lead to advances in areas ranging from energy-efficient buildings to clean water and sustainable fuel...
Nuclear energy holds immense potential to meet growing energy demands, and researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are working on a breakthrough technology that could revolutionize the recycling of nuclear fuel and other valuable materials. Their research focuses on a smaller, more localized approach to recovering uranium, transuranic elements, and...
Thank you for signing up
Help us promote free market solutions for climate change.