Princeton Satellite Systems $100 Million Plan for a Fusion Space Drive by 2027
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Lancaster, California will be home to a "greener than green" trash-to hydrogen production plant three times the size of any other green H2 facility
Power is everything is a famous quote from the movie Apollo 13. A similar statement is made by Marc Millis about interstellar travel. Marc is a thought leader in interstellar travel.
The Trump administration on Monday approved the largest solar installation in U.S. history, giving its blessing to a Berkshire Hathaway Inc. subsidiary's 690-megawatt project just north of Las Vegas.
Nextbigfuture has tracked and analyzed nuclear fusion, nuclear fission and other energy.
For this particular new tabless electrode, CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that this technology is "way more important than it sounds" without explaining more.
Researchers from Rice University have built a simple new solar-powered device that can create hydrogen for fuel by splitting water. The system is very similar to other "artificial leaf" designs, but the team says it's self-sufficient and relati
Ukraine's Ministry of Energy believes that using power plants for crypto mining could be one of the best ways to take advantage of a current energy glut.
"We have seen an inflection point in interest for utility level storage, primarily driven by progress in reducing costs," the company said.
Lithium-ion batteries are the backbone of modern energy storage in consumer devices, but there are alternatives in the pipeline that could offer us considerable advantages moving forward.
When you think of dragsters as well as gob-smacking acceleration and speed you also think of apoplectic engine roar and flames being thrown in all directions from high-octane machines.
Hbar Technologies looks at using Breakthrough Starshot laser acceleration to reach Proxima Centauri and then use antimatter propulsion to decelerate.
The Swarm-Probe Enabling ATEG Reactor, or SPEAR, is a nuclear electric propulsion spacecraft that uses a new, lightweight reactor moderator and advanced thermoelectric generators (ATEGs) to greatly reduce overall core mass.
Windows capable of harvesting energy from the sun have been on the horizon for a number of years, but they're yet to help cut down a building's energy costs. A new development from Australian researchers may change that.
But the coronavirus will push first deliveries back by a month.
(Natural News) Conservationists working at the London Zoo are busy cultivating Pete, a maidenhair fern that will hopefully be able to take photos that can help scientists monitor remote areas of rainforests all over the world.
Robert Zubrin describes the multiplier of producing fuel on the moon or Mars.
BWX Technologies, Inc., Westinghouse and X-energy have contracts to each begin design work on a mobile nuclear reactor prototype under a Strategic Capabilities Office initiative called Project Pele.
BWX Technologies, Inc., Westinghouse and X-energy have contracts to each begin design work on a mobile nuclear reactor prototype under a Strategic Capabilities Office initiative called Project Pele.
After months of high drama and unceasing tedium, the OPEC+ group of countries, led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, finally granted President Trump his wish and agreed to pull some by 9.7 million barrels/day from the market in response to the epic collaps
The EV bus will be "the best of the Touran."
Solar cells are constantly improving on the road to maximum efficiency. Now, three records have been broken by two different devices, including one that pushes the highest overall solar conversion efficiency towards the 50-percent mark.
Each of the cell's six junctions (the photoactive layers) is specially designed to capture light from a specific part of the solar spectrum.
Researchers at the University of Southern California looking to crack the renewable energy storage problem have developed a new version of a redox flow battery from inexpensive and readily-available materials.
Solar panel driveways may soon be powering all our households with clean electricity thanks to this Budapest-based startup.
Saudi Arabia's latest construction is raising eyebrows in the West, with these new satellite images sparking fears about the kingdom's quest for power.
And the new glass battery promises to accelerate the shift away from internal combustion engines because it will deliver a significant increase in storage capacity.
In our last post we touted a too-big too fail return in the commodity-sector (a name nobody dare to pronounced.
In this week's pick of energy and commodity charts to watch, super tankers are in high demand to store oil while prices remain at historic lows.
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