AI Energy Consumption Is Often Overestimated, Officials Say. There Is a More Pressing Matter: Air Conditioning
EnergyAs much as AI data centers consume, climate change will mean that we'll need much more air conditioning.
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The U.S. Is Developing a Transportable Nuclear Reactor for Military Use. It Will Be the Country’s First Fourth-Generation Reactor
EnergyProject Pele is already underway and aims to test a prototype in no more than five years.
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Artificial Intelligence Has Reached Nuclear Power Plants. It Will Change Them Forever
EnergyResearchers are using AI to solve scientific and technical challenges in nuclear fusion.
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Microsoft Will Reopen a Nuclear Power Plant That Has Been Closed Since 2019 to Power Its AI
EnergyOnce reopened, the plant will provide its 835 MW of power to Microsoft’s data centers.
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Texas Is Getting a New Nuclear Reactor at an Unexpected Location: A University
EnergyIt’s the first research reactor the U.S. has licensed at a university in more than 30 years.
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A Former NASA Engineer Believes He Has the Solution to Combat Heat in Homes: An Air Conditioner With a Built-In Dehumidifier
EnergyThe Helix Micra system is a dehumidification system for air conditioners.
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China Isn’t Satisfied With Creating the World’s Largest Offshore Windmills. Now It Wants Them to Be Used to Breed Fish, Too
EnergyWhat if wind farms could be used for more than just generating renewable energy?
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NASA Has Confirmed a 60-Year-Old Hypothesis: The Earth Has a Third Hidden Energy Field
Space60 years ago, scientists proposed a hypothesis about the existence of a weak energy field surrounding our planet.
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Do Fridge Magnets Increase Energy Consumption? Here’s What Manufacturers Say
EnergyRefrigerator magnets have no impact on the lifetime of the appliance, but this isn’t because of their magnetic fields.
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This ‘Wonder Material’ for Solar Panels Has Broken Records Again Due to a New Chemical Treatment
EnergyNew perovskite photovoltaic cells increase the material’s ability to convert light into energy by 60.
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South Texas Has Hit the Jackpot Again: An Unlimited Supply of Clean Energy to Replace Oil
EnergyPiedras Pintas Salt Dome could become world’s biggest hydrogen storage facility.
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80 Trillion Watts: A UK Startup Has Fired the World’s Most Powerful Cannon to Demonstrate Nuclear Fusion
EnergyThe world's most powerful projectile can now produce nuclear fusion.
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The ‘4 Ms’: Google’s Plan for AI Companies to Consume 1,000 Times Less Power
EnergyAI is consuming a monstrous amount energy of during its training and when providing users with responses to their questions.
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Texas Was an Oil Giant, Now It’s a Solar Energy Titan: The State Already Produces More Energy Than California
EnergyAfter years in the shadows due to conservative politics, Texas is finally embracing solar energy.
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Japanese Researchers Have Found the Holy Grial to Produce Cheaper, More Effective Green Hydrogen
EnergyGreen hydrogen is widely seen as the future of the energy sector, but producing it at scale currently isn't possible.
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The World’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant Is a Beast With 7 Reactors. It’s Ready to Come Back Online
EnergyA new Japanese law allows nuclear power plants more than 60 years old to remain in operation.
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Californians Installed Too Many Solar Panels. It's Causing a Problem for Their Electrical Grid
EnergyThe state offers incentives to encourage Californians to install rooftop solar panels. However, the decades-long initiatives have now backfired.
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