Anthro Energy broke ground on Tuesday on a factory in Louisville, Kentucky, that can make enough battery materials for more than 300,000 electric vehicles. But the facility’s headline output, 25 gigawatt-hours’ worth of electrolytes, is just part of the story. Anthro’s factory could give solid-state batteries a much needed boost in the U.S. Battery manufacturers...
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...
Researchers at Chonnam National University in South Korea have developed an artificial intelligence mapping method that combines drone imagery with ground-based LiDAR data to improve how agricultural robots locate themselves and navigate commercial orchards. The work targets a familiar problem in agricultural automation. Orchard canopies can interfere with satellite positioning, while repeated rows and similar-looking...
Soil is arguably the most critical factor involved in any plant’s life cycle. It serves many roles, including anchoring a plant in place, storing and supplying nutrients, breaking down organic matter, and insulating the plant. These are just a few of the many functions soil performs for a single plant.
The U.S. Army has placed REalloys at the center of America’s drive to rebuild its heavy rare earth supply chain, selecting the company to build and operate the first-ever commercial critical mineral processing operation on a U.S. military installation. REalloys plans to build a heavy rare earth processing complex at the Tooele Army Depot in Utah capable...
It’s always difficult to make predictions, as Yogi Berra said, especially about the future. However, looking back across the history of humanity, it is safe to say that the world will need more energy in the years and decades ahead, as it has steadily used more energy year after year in the past.
Aalo Atomics’ Aalo-X Critical Test Reactor (CTR)—dubbed “Project First Light”—has reached criticality at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), marking the fourth Department of Energy (DOE)–authorized advanced reactor startup under the federal push to accelerate reactor testing and demonstration. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said July 6 that Aalo’s test reactor, which DOE referred to as...
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