As New York scrambles to transition away from burning fossil fuels, nuclear energy is in the spotlight. Last month, officials with the state energy authority, NYSERDA, announced the agency had begun gauging interest from companies who may want to develop nuclear power plants in New York. Weeks earlier, Governor Kathy Hochul noted that new nuclear...
DOE Partners with UK’s DESNZ and Tokamak Energy Ltd. to Accelerate Fusion Energy Development through a $52M Upgrade to the Privately Owned ST40 Facility
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.K.’s Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), and the private fusion company Tokamak Energy Ltd. (TE) today announced a plan to jointly sponsor a $52 million upgrade to the ST40 experimental fusion facility to advance fusion science and technology needed to deliver a future fusion pilot plant. Fusion...
From Oil Fields to Solar Farms: The Market-Driven Transformation of American Energy
For all the heated rhetoric about America's energy future, the real story isn't on cable news. It's written in investment portfolios, corporate strategies, and technological breakthroughs transforming how we power our nation.
Regulatory red tape holds back the carbon capture opportunity in Texas
We all know Texas is the energy capital of America, and we know that our ability to lead the country in so many types of energy production — oil, natural gas, wind, solar, battery storage and soon geothermal — is often in spite of federal regulations that are designed to delay and obstruct. Thankfully, the incoming Trump...
Transforming Data Centers: A Vision For Sustainable Technology
As a leader in the tech industry, I’ve witnessed firsthand how sustainable technology is reshaping industries. What began as a passion for innovation has evolved into a mission to leverage cutting-edge solutions for data center management and AI computing, with a strong emphasis on minimizing wasted energy. My entrepreneurial journey has been deeply rooted in...
Turning Mine Waste into Valuable Electronics Materials
An innovative method for recovering rare earth elements (REEs) from mine waste promises to address pressing environmental challenges while meeting the growing demand for materials critical to the electronics industry. Researchers at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) have unveiled a process that extracts lanthanum, a high-demand REE, from contaminated mine tailings. The method utilizes industrial adsorbents to purify...
Meta seeks nuclear power developers for reactors to start in early 2030s
Meta (META.O), said on Tuesday it is seeking proposals from nuclear power developers to help meet its artificial intelligence and environment goals, becoming the latest big tech company to take interest in atomic power amid an expected boom in electricity demand. The company wants to add 1 to 4 gigawatts of new U.S. nuclear generation capacity...
How GE Vernova plans to deploy small nuclear reactors across the developed world
GE Vernova is aiming to deploy small nuclear reactors across the developed world over the next decade, staking out a leadership position in a budding technology that could play a central role in meeting surging electricity demand and reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The company’s small modular reactor, or SMR, is designed to reduce the cost of building...
Solar Project Converts Cranberry Bog Into An Efficient Power Source
Repurposing airfields, building on landfills, and blending with cranberry bogs, Syncarpha Capital wants to change the energy scene. Syncarpha Capital’s aim is to transform the energy landscape by reducing or completely removing obstacles to the mass use of solar energy and energy storage in the United States. Recently, a couple of community projects expressed their...
LANL conducts first HALEU fuel experiment in two decades
For the first time in more than two decades, researchers at the US Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have performed critical experiment using high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) TRISO (TRI-structural ISOtropic) fuel. The Deimos experiment was performed at the National Criticality Experiments Research Centre (NCERC) outside of Las Vegas, operated by LANL at the Nevada National...