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A new zinc-iodine battery from Flinders University achieves over 60,000 charge cycles with a 3-minute recharge time, offering a safe and sustainable alternative to lithium-ion for large-scale energy storage.
A New York Times report reveals that the US power grid relies on aging, hand-built transformers: a cascading failure could trigger multi-year blackouts.
Octopus Energy is paying customers in free electricity to cut power usage during the August 12 solar eclipse, aiming to prevent grid instability as solar generation drops by up to 1.3GW.
Envision Group integrates AI into its 12.8 GWh battery cluster in China to automate spot-market trading and thermal management, boosting projected lifetime revenue by 20%.
ENEA introduces advanced software and educational tools to analyze gender gaps in the energy transition, treating decarbonization as a complex social system rather than just a technical shift.
Wind and solar power surpassed fossil fuels in Germany's electricity mix for the first time in 2025, generating 44% of total power and marking a pivotal moment for the Energiewende strategy.
China has completed a record-breaking 582-ton superconducting magnet for its BEST fusion reactor, aiming to achieve commercial clean energy generation by 2030.
Texas A&M engineers are developing fish-like nanorobots to harvest lithium from seawater, aiming to secure a sustainable supply for EV batteries and reduce reliance on destructive land mining.
PNNL and AWS are testing neuro-symbolic AI to fortify the US power grid against cyberattacks and extreme weather, overcoming the reliability limits of standard LLMs.
AI data centers are stalling the US transition away from coal, with energy demand projected to exceed 10% of national usage by 2030, forcing the retention of aging fossil fuel plants.
Syncline Energy's proposed 350-hectare AI data center in Melbourne faces backlash over its energy demand, which exceeds the output of Victoria's largest coal plant.
UCLA and Ewha Womans University researchers developed an alkaline thermal treatment to turn mixed plastics into high-purity hydrogen while sequestering carbon as a solid mineral.
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