In reading about sustainable energy and writing about it, there have been some happy news stories where former landfills are outfitted with solar power arrays and where abandoned coal mines also are found to have solar power potential. Rivian is involved with one such project as reported on this site. … [continued]
Well, that’s one way to put it. I have to give the credit to CleanTechnica reader “ElectricGuy” for this one. Yesterday, he wrote, “The world will add 120 new 1GW nuclear reactors this year. What a headline that would be!” He was referencing a recent report’s estimate for solar power … [continued]
The U.S. Department of Energy announced some big nuclear fusion news this week. It is truly gigantic scientific news, and I don’t intend to downplay the breakthrough at all here. I’m amazed and thrilled U.S. scientists were able to produce net-positive energy for a brief moment in a laser-based nuclear … [continued]
A DOE lab has created a fusion event that created more energy than it consumes — something that has never happened before.
The most popular CleanTechnica articles last week, quite surprisingly, were led by stories on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, nuclear fusion, and nuclear fission. That is surely the first time such topics topped the list. It isn’t until you get to #5 on the list that you see a story about … [continued]
Commonwealth Fusion Systems says it plans to build a compact, affordable fusion reactor that will begin generating electricity in 10 years.
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch, but a new hydrogen-boron solution for “clean” nuclear fusion energy could come pretty close.
Nuclear power is one of the most controversial alternative energies, partially due to the toxic waste it creates. Now physicists at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a system that uses fusion to eliminate the transuranic wastes created by nuclear plants.
I remember seeing the movie Chain Reaction back in 1996 and praying that nuclear fusion would become a reality in my lifetime. And according to researchers at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (LLNL) in California, it just might. At the facility’s National Ignition Facility (NIF), researchers are gearing up to test the … [continued]
New Awards from DOE Will Support Acceleration of Commercial Fusion Energy Toward Viability The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $107 million in funding for six projects in the Fusion Innovative Research Engine (FIRE) Collaboratives, and that several privately funded fusion companies have completed early critical-path science and technology … [continued]
