Hal Bernton of Inside Climate News reports on Alaska’s potential for underground hydrogen. Alaska geologist Mark Myers hopes that underground reserves of hydrogen could fuel a new state energy industry. His dreams were launched by a well drilled in the African country of Mali that yields enough hydrogen to fuel a village electric power plant. ...
Joe Burns of Utility Dive writes on ARPA-E funding for data center cooling. Advanced Cooling Technologies will receive $1.1 million through two subcontracts with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. The funding is part of ARPA-E’s Cooling Operations Optimized for Leaps in Energy, Reliability and Carbon Hyperefficiency for Information Processing Systems program,...
Barbara Grady writes in Trellis about Chevron’s bet on green hydrogen. In Richmond, California, a city plagued by the carbon dioxide, soot and methane emitted by a massive oil refinery owned by Chevron Corp., a startup is building a waste-to-green hydrogen conversion project designed to produce zero-carbon hydrogen for transportation applications. If it succeeds, the...
Jordyn Grzelewski of Tech Brew reports on GM’s use of AI to boost performance in its automobiles. Every second counts on the racetrack. That’s one reason General Motors is integrating artificial intelligence into just about every aspect of its motorsports division. Tech Brew recently got a peek behind the scenes of where the machine learning...
Kendra Pierre-Louis and Leslie Kaufman of Bloomberg write on the status of America’s dams. As flooding hammered Appalachia in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, residents became intimately familiar with a new norm in the US’s post-storm script: dams at imminent risk of failing. Officials last week said multiple dams were on the brink, including Tennessee’s...
Mark Mills writes in The Wall Street Journal about AI’s role in bringing back Three Mile Island. The news that Microsoft plans to fund the reopening of the undamaged reactor at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant spread almost as quickly as news about the nuclear accident at that same site in 1979. Microsoft’s decision was animated,...
Abhishek Bhardwaj of Interesting Engineering writes about the efficiency of solid-state batteries. Australia-based Altech Batteries has announced that its first Cerenergy ABS60 battery prototype is online and operating successfully at its joint venture partner Fraunhofer IKTS’ test laboratory in Dresden, Germany. The prototype 60 kWh sodium chloride solid-state battery energy storage system has been integrated...
Most recently, on September 20, Microsoft and Constellation announced that they will reopen a reactor at Constellation’s Three Mile Island nuclear energy center in Pennsylvania to power Microsoft data centers. Microsoft agreed to pay $16 billion to restart the Unit 1 reactor which has a capacity of 835 megawatts. It was shut down in 2019 under financial pressure from growing competition with cheap natural gas. (The Unit 2 reactor was destroyed in 1979 accident and is undergoing decommissioning; however, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) noted there were no deaths or accidents, or discernible health effects from some small radioactive releases.) Microsoft has agreed to buy up to 100% of the electricity produced by Unit 1. This is part of the tech giant’s efforts to secure enough reliable, low-carbon electricity to supply its energy-thirsty data centers powering the boom in artificial intelligence.
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