Wind energy blows away coal-fired power in the US

Good news for planet Earth, at least as far as the data shows for the United States. According to the US Energy Information Administration, in the five years from 2019 to 2024, in March and April specifically, electricity production using wind power ha… Continue reading Wind energy blows away coal-fired power in the US

Massive Australia-to-Singapore clean energy cable gets green light

The world’s largest renewable energy and transmission project has received key approval from government officials. The Australia-Asia Power Link project will send Australian solar power to Singapore via 4,300 kilometer-long undersea cables.Continue Rea… Continue reading Massive Australia-to-Singapore clean energy cable gets green light

World’s first dual-tower solar thermal plant boosts efficiency by 24%

Two 650-foot-tall (200-m) towers have risen in China’s Gansu Province. Combined with an array of 30,000 mirrors arranged in concentric circles, the new facility is expected to generate over 1.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity every year.Continue … Continue reading World’s first dual-tower solar thermal plant boosts efficiency by 24%

Giant twin-rotor floating wind turbine can harness a hurricane

Mingyang Smart Energy, maker of the world’s largest wind turbines, has just unveiled its latest gigantic floating offshore wind turbine creation. The OceanX is a two-headed, deep-water behemoth capable of generating during Cat 5 hurricanes.Continue Rea… Continue reading Giant twin-rotor floating wind turbine can harness a hurricane

Full-scale self-assembling wind turbine system funded for construction

The sheer size of today’s wind turbines is mind-boggling – they’re among the biggest machines humanity has ever built, and the bigger they get, the more potential value you can get by adding a little extra length to the blades.Continue ReadingCategory:… Continue reading Full-scale self-assembling wind turbine system funded for construction

Geothermal fracking plant scores world-record energy contract in Utah

Just a year ago, Fervo Energy successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of its horizontally oriented geothermal system. Now the company has landed a massive contract for providing its clean, virtually endless power to the California grid.Continue Rea… Continue reading Geothermal fracking plant scores world-record energy contract in Utah

Kilometer-tall skyscrapers to double as massive batteries

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the designer of the world’s tallest building, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, has joined forces with Energy Vault Holdings to investigate the possibility of creating something even taller: huge 1-km [3,280-ft]-tall skyscrapers t… Continue reading Kilometer-tall skyscrapers to double as massive batteries

Drilling into magma: Risky plan takes geothermal to supercritical extremes

The Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT) “has the potential to be for geoscientists what the Large Hadron Collider has been for particle physicists.” So say researchers working on the project to drill straight into a magma chamber to explore massive geothermal p… Continue reading Drilling into magma: Risky plan takes geothermal to supercritical extremes

Drilling into magma: Risky plan takes geothermal to supercritical extremes

The Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT) “has the potential to be for geoscientists what the Large Hadron Collider has been for particle physicists.” So say researchers working on the project to drill straight into a magma chamber to explore massive geothermal p… Continue reading Drilling into magma: Risky plan takes geothermal to supercritical extremes

Video: Wave-amplifying generator bounces twice as high as the swells

Sweden’s CorPower has announced “breakthrough” results from Atlantic ocean testing of its full-scale floating generators, which cleverly time their motions to amplify smaller waves while protecting themselves against dangerous storm conditions.Continue… Continue reading Video: Wave-amplifying generator bounces twice as high as the swells