- US space force confirms working on space-based directed-energy weapons | The Nation (June 18th, 2021) https://nation.com.pk/18-Jun-2021/us-space-force-confirms-working-on-space-based-directed-energy-weapons 26 comments spaceforce
- Security and climate change drive a return to nuclear energy as over 30 nations sign summit pledge https://apnews.com/article/eu-nuclear-summit-energy-climate-war-016102058bc53f0d1590dd2faf5e569a 5 comments worldnews
- Nevada dilemma: Renewable energy or national monument? https://www.eenews.net/articles/nevada-dilemma-renewable-energy-or-national-monument/ 3 comments nature
- Governor Sisolak Demands Answers from U.S. Dept. of Energy on Unapproved Waste Shipments to the Nevada National Security Site http://gov.nv.gov/news/press/2019/governor_sisolak_demands_answers_from_u_s__dept__of_energy_on_unapproved_waste_shipments_to_the_nevada_national_security_site/ 7 comments politics
- Scotland sets renewable energy record as wind power provides equivalent of 118% of nation's electricity http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/scotland-renewable-wind-energy-power-electricity-three-million-homes-118-per-cent-of-households-a7855846.html 16 comments europe
- Solar dish sets thermal energy efficiency record. Australian National University has developed a solar dish with a 97% efficient sunlight-to-steam conversion rate. https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/23/solar-dish-sets-steamy-thermal-energy-efficiency-record/ 3 comments technology
- Jill Stein: US Has to Nationalize Energy Companies http://www.gp.org/jill_stein_us_has_to_nationalize_energy_companies 40 comments politics
- Pakistan’s Other National Struggle: Its Energy Crisis http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/07/09/pakistans-other-national-struggle-its-energy-crisis/ 12 comments pakistan
- The commercial operations of Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant meet all national safety requirements and international standards. Electricity can now be delivered constantly and reliably over the next 60 years 👌 http://wam.ae/en/details/1395302925834 9 comments worldnews
- National Security U.S. officials say Russian government hackers have penetrated energy and nuclear company business networks https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-officials-say-russian-government-hackers-have-penetrated-energy-and-nuclear-company-business-networks/2017/07/08/bbfde9a2-638b-11e7-8adc-fea80e32bf47_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.580a45674eb4 10 comments politics
- The island nation of Cape Verde has pledged to power the entire country with nothing but renewable energy by the year 2020. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/cape-verde-the-african-country-that-plans-to-run-on-100-renewable-energy-by-2020-a7337426.html 4 comments worldnews
- President-elect Barack Obama will nominate Steven Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as his Energy Secretary http://www.reuters.com/article/newsone/idustre4b970320081210 3 comments politics
- Bitcoin Miners Are Sucking Up More than 2 Percent of the Nation’s Electricity Energy Information Administration now makes big crypto producers divulge power usage. https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2024/02/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-mining-electricity-eia-report-power/ 18 comments climate
- France Will Nationalize Country's Largest Utility Company Amid Deepening War-Induced Energy Crisis https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2022/07/06/france-will-nationalize-countrys-largest-utility-company-amid-deepening-war-induced-energy-crisis/ 44 comments worldnews
- Biden: ‘If We Don’t Develop Renewable Energy, We Will Make the Biggest Mistake in This Nation’s History’ http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/08/30/308030/biden-if-we-dont-develop-renewable-energy-we-will-make-the-biggest-mistake-in-this-nations-history/ 343 comments politics
- Electric cars could form battery hubs to store renewable energy - By 2050, National Grid predicts, 35m electric cars will supply energy when needed https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/11/electric-cars-could-form-battery-hubs-to-store-renewable-energy 8 comments technology
- Norway mulls new ways of using sovereign fund: oil-rich nation to announce how much of its $920 bn sovereign wealth fund will be poured into renewable energy http://www.aljazeera.com/video/europe/2014/04/norway-mulls-new-ways-using-sovereign-fund-201444143551547865.html 13 comments europe
- Mention of 'fossil fuels' cut from videos at UN climate talks | AFP obtained emails sent by the United Nations to NGOs asking them to remove video frames referring to "dirty energy" and "pipelines", claiming that they breached the UN climate convention's rules of participation https://phys.org/news/2018-12-mention-fossil-fuels-videos-climate.html 5 comments worldnews
- New Zealand quake scientists make a surprising find underground, water measuring 100°C (212°F), which could provide a significant new energy source for the nation http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-zealand-quake-scientists-surprise-underground-hot-water/ 5 comments worldnews
- Wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources now make up just about 10 percent of the nation’s electricity supply, but transitioning to 100 percent clean energy is both necessary and feasible, academic experts and clean energy advocates said today. http://www.environmentamerica.org/news/ame/panel-wind-solar-and-other-clean-energy-sources-could-supply-all-our-power 7 comments politics
- WikiLeaks Reveals NSA Spying On Japanese Officials, Companies | The intercepted communications range from goverment deliberations over agricultural imports and trade disputes, negotiating positions in the WTO, to the nation’s climate change, nuclear and energy policy and carbon emissions schemes http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/target-tokyo-wikileaks-reveals-nsa-spied-japanese-pm-shinz-abe-companies-like-mitsibushi-1513479 6 comments worldnews
- Renewable energy isn't boosting electric bills study contends. Top 10 states in renewable energy had an average increase in retail electricity prices of 3.06% between 2002 and 2013. The 10 states with the least renewable energy generation had a 3.74%, while the national avg was 3.23%. http://blogs.denverpost.com/thebalancesheet/2015/03/23/renewable-energy-isnt-boosting-electric-bills-study-contends/12570/ 11 comments technology
- China Consolidates Grip on Rare Earths: By closing or nationalizing dozens of the producers of rare earth metals - which are used in energy-efficient bulbs and many other green-energy products - China temporarily shuts down most of the industry and crimping the global supply of the vital resources https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/business/global/china-consolidates-control-of-rare-earth-industry.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all 64 comments worldnews
- With 'One Nation,' Liberal Groups Aim to Match Tea Party's Energy, Influence http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/12-1 3 comments politics
- 8 ways Argonne advances hydrogen as a clean energy resource. (Argonne National Laboratory is managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science) https://www.anl.gov/article/8-ways-argonne-advances-hydrogen-as-a-clean-energy-resource 3 comments energy
- More nations will join U.S. in releasing emergency oil reserves. The International Energy Agency said member countries had agreed to a release to ease global oil markets rocked by Russia’s war in Ukraine. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/business/iea-oil-reserves.html 11 comments politics
- Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday released a plan to address climate change by transitioning the nation to 100 percent clean energy in a decade, pledging to adopt a key goal of Jay Inslee and calling on the rest of the primary field to do the same. https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2019/09/03/elizabeth-warren-releases-climate-change-plan-move-percent-clean-energy-years/ShRh3e3SZUDnimQv1E5jcM/story.html 151 comments climate
- Renewables to Beat Fossil Fuels With $3.7 Trillion Solar Boom - Renewable energy will draw almost two-thirds of the spending on new power plants over the next 25 years, dwarfing spending on fossil fuels, as plunging costs make solar the first choice for consumers and the poorest nations. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-23/renewables-to-beat-fossil-fuels-with-3-7-trillion-solar-boom 5 comments economy
- Duke Says Disposal of Coal-Ash May Cost Up to $10 Billion - Duke Energy Corp. (DUK) said the total tab for cleaning up its North Carolina coal-ash dumps may reach $10 billion amid a call for national rules to regulate the disposal of the fossil-fuel byproduct. http://bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-22/duke-says-coal-ash-disposal-may-cost-up-to-10-billion.html 186 comments politics
- Democratic lawmakers are calling for $80 billion in federal funds to be set aside to beef up the nation's Internet services, develop renewable energy sources and computerize healthcare records. http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=house-dems-push-for-more-than-80-bi-2009-01-16 2 comments science
- Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Lab have made transparent glass panes that darken in the sun’s glare and also act as solar panels. At low humidity levels, the window is see-through. But as temperatures rise, the vapor triggers a chemical reaction that causes the window to darken. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19009-z.pdf 10 comments science
- In work reported online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers created a quantum version of Maxwell’s demon in the lab and measured both the information stored in its memory and the energy it extracted from a system. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/scientists-peek-inside-mind-maxwells-demon 3 comments science
- This is a big deal — a legacy deal for Obama that will make a significant, long-term contribution to America’s energy, environmental, health and national security agendas. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/opinion/sunday/friedman-this-is-a-big-deal.html?ref=opinion 3 comments politics
- A massive expansion of wind farms across the UK is now needed for national security reasons, the business secretary has declared, as, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the government considers sweeping changes to planning laws to improve Britain’s energy independence. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/13/tories-plan-big-expansion-of-wind-farms-to-protect-national-security 107 comments environment
- LA could soon be home to the nation’s largest green hydrogen infrastructure system: Southern California Gas Company wants to build a 10 to 20GW electrolyzer and 25 to 35GW of new and curtailed wind and solar, along with 2GW of energy storage, to deliver green hydrogen to the Los Angeles Basin. https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/02/17/la-could-soon-be-home-to-the-nations-largest-green-hydrogen-infrastructure-system/ 3 comments energy
- Like a 'second wife': Wind energy gives American farmers a new crop to sell in tough times. In an increasingly precarious time for the nation’s farmers and ranchers, some have a new commodity to sell — access to their wind. “The turbines make up for the (crop) export issues we’ve been facing.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/16/wind-energy-can-help-american-farmers-earn-money-avoid-bankruptcy/4695670002/ 12 comments energy
- Waste heat is released when we generate and use energy, yet the regional impact of that heat has not been well accounted for. A new study shows waste heat may explain some temperature variations at a national scale better than do global climate models. http://blogs.agu.org/geospace/2016/06/17/study-waste-heat-major-source-national-warming/ 21 comments science
- Muslim Clerics Call for a Phaseout of Fossil Fuels. Islamic leaders from 20 nations called for the phaseout of greenhouse-gas emissions from burning fossil fuels and for 100 percent of energy to come from renewables http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-18/muslim-clerics-call-for-a-phaseout-of-fossil-fuels 10 comments worldnews
- A Group Shout on Climate Change - the way to approach the task of harnessing greenhouse gas emissions was not to ask how much it would cost but how much nations stood to gain by investing in new technologies and energy efficiency. http://nytimes.com/2014/09/28/opinion/sunday/a-group-shout-on-climate-change.html?ref=opinion&_r=1&referrer= 4 comments politics
- Conservative Think-tanks Launch Campaign to Turn Americans Against Wind Energy: Documents show for the first time that local anti-wind groups are co-ordinating and working with national fossil-fuel funded advocacy groups to wreck the wind industry. http://www.alternet.org/environment/155359/conservative_thinktanks_launch_campaign_to_turn_americans_against_wind_energy/?page=entire 2532 comments politics