Quaise Energy, an American startup, announced on August 27 the final closing of a $180 million funding round, which included $35 million from Nabors, to finance the Obsidian Project in Oregon, where a microwave gyrotron will create wells in rock between 300 °C and 500 °C to establish the first commercial superhot geothermal plant on […]
Image Credit: AI Generated China has turned a huge part of a waste treatment facility in Guangzhou into a public attraction. A former chimney at the Fushan Circular Economy Industrial Park has been transformed into a 120-metre-high tower, allowing visitors to look across the site from above. The facility processes thousands of tonnes of household […]
The recycling process begins with extracting reusable components from the blades.(Representational photo, Getty images) Wind turbine blades can last for years, but what happens to them after they are no longer needed is a challenge. A facility in Fairfax, Iowa, USA, is now recycling old wind turbine blades and turning their materials into products that […]
Moment Energy co-founders Gabriel Soares, Edward Chiang, Sumreen Rattan and Gurmesh Sidhu Six years after four engineering graduates began experimenting with used electric vehicle batteries in a British Columbia garage, their clean technology company has opened the largest second-life battery manufacturing plant of its kind. Moment Energy, founded in 2020 by Simon Fraser University graduates […]
For decades, Pickerel Lake in Minnesota struggled with poor water quality, heavy algal growth and extremely low aquatic plant cover. The shallow lake had become dominated by common carp, a bottom-feeding fish that can disturb lake sediments and alter the movement of nutrients through an aquatic ecosystem.But after the invasive fish were removed in 2009, […]
Russian missile strike hits Lakshmi Mittal’s steel plant in Ukraine Russian attacks on Ukraine on Sunday struck a site at ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, the country’s largest steel producer owned by Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, killing two people and injuring over 10 workers and contractors, the company told Kyiv Post.The missile strike hit the ArcelorMittal Kryvyi […]
PC: Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP via Getty A huge swarm of jellyfish has forced France’s Gravelines nuclear power plant to shut three reactors and reduce output from a fourth, after the animals clogged parts of the seawater cooling system. EDF took reactors 2, 3 and 4 offline as a precaution, while reactor 1 was limited to […]
