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Wales just cleared the next phase of one of the world's largest consented tidal schemes, 240 MW in a strait where the sea moves at 7 mph, enough for 180, 000 homes on a timetable written by the Moon
1+ hour, 42+ min ago (132+ words) Andy Billcliff, chief executive of Menter M'n Morlais Ltd, was blunter about what the approval actually buys: the chance, in his words, "to get tidal energy devices in the sea." Which is, after more than a decade of groundwork, the…...
A Finnish company just fed pure hydrogen to a 13, 000-horsepower piston engine the size of a bus and put the electricity on Spain's national grid, the world's first large-scale engine running on 100% hydrogen
4+ hour, 42+ min ago (221+ words) Neither approach wins outright. They solve different problems. Toyota wants to decarbonize the thing moving the freight. W'rtsil' wants to decarbonize the thing keeping the freight terminal lit at 3 a. m. when the solar farm is asleep. That is the unglamorous substance…...
The rocks grow a few millimeters every million years, four kilometers down in the dark, loaded with cobalt, nickel and rare earths. A machine that works like a vacuum cleaner is about to suck them up by the million tons
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For centuries the playbook for boggy farmland was drain it. German scientists just ran the numbers on the opposite, flood it back and bolt solar panels on top, and the ground earns twice, power above, carbon locked belo
21+ hour, 12+ min ago (284+ words) This isn't some rare edge case either. In the UK, 80% of peatlands are degraded. In Germany the number climbs to 95%, mostly from centuries of drainage for farming. So a huge share of these landscapes have already been switched from carbon…...
Australian scientists just made the case that the continent already runs a natural nuclear reactor: superhot granite that once powered a plant for 160 days before the wells got plugged and everyone walked away
22+ hour, 42+ min ago (207+ words) No fuel rods, no containment dome, no decade of hearings. Their name for tapping it is Geothermal 2. 0, drilling into rock hotter than 662 F (350 C) and pulling steady electricity out of the ground around the clock. After decades of development, they reckon,…...
Australia's new Ghost Shark drone submarine floods its own hull on purpose, sealing only what matters, vanishes at very long range to spy or strike, and comes back with answers, or not alone. Dozens just entered service
1+ day, 12+ min ago (233+ words) Australia is spending up to A$368 billion, call it US$235 billion, on a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, and the first boat to actually fly an Australian flag won't arrive until the early 2030s. The ones built in Australia are a 2040s project....
Two companies drilling in rural Kansas just put a date on something nobody on Earth has ever done, billing a customer for hydrogen pumped straight out of the rock, and the well sampled up to 96% pure
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (223+ words) We've covered the global scramble for this gas before, from the French deposit that may hold half the world's annual hydrogen supply to the wells popping up across North America. Those were stories about geology. This one is about an…...
Lockheed's new parasite drone grips a warship with 16 suction cups, charges its batteries off the water rushing past like a bike dynamo taped to a destroyer, then lets go loaded with torpedoes and six aerial drones
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (432+ words) The lamprey is nobody's favorite fish. It's jawless, eel-shaped, and it gets through life by suctioning its round mouth onto something bigger and letting the host do all the swimming. A biologist will tell you that's parasitism. An engineer might…...
Finland is weeks from opening the world's first nuclear tomb, 430 meters down in rock older than animal life, built to stay sealed for 100, 000 years and need exactly zero human attention from day one
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (268+ words) Every argument about nuclear power runs into the same wall eventually. The reactors are clean, the output is steady, the safety record is better than most people assume, and then someone asks where the waste goes. For roughly 70 years, the…...
Chinese engineers re-tested the rubber sealing the world's underwater tunnels, crushed and soaked at once like the real ocean, and it's losing grip 35% faster than the design math promised
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (179+ words) The part that should bother engineers is not the 67. 66 percent. It is what happens on the surface while that is going on. Over the test period, the gasket's Shore A hardness rose by 14. 18 percent and its density climbed by 5. 88 percent....