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Vattenfall launches first controlled study on how harbor porpoises respond to electromagnetic fields from offshore wind cables
17+ hour, 28+ min ago (503+ words) Every day, harbor porpoises cross above the cables threading along the North Sea floor " cables that silently radiate electromagnetic fields into the surrounding water. It happens thousands of times, largely unnoticed and almost entirely unstudied. Now, for the first time,…...
Bruce Power secures Ontario government backing to begin pre-development on a 4, 800-megawatt nuclear expansion at the world's largest operating nuclear site
20+ hour, 3+ min ago (387+ words) Ontario's electricity system is being pulled in several directions at once. Demand is climbing. Industry is returning. And the province has staked its clean-energy future heavily on nuclear power. Against that backdrop, a site on the eastern shore of Lake…...
Topsoe's pilot reactor ran on two different carbon sources at once and still produced stable, aviation-grade synthetic fuel
22+ hour, 46+ min ago (442+ words) Making synthetic aviation fuel requires two things at once: a steady carbon feedstock and cheap renewable electricity. In practice, neither shows up on schedule. In a pilot-scale experiment published in the Journal of CO2 Utilization, Topsoe scientists fed two entirely different…...
IEA chief meets Canadian leaders in Ottawa as Middle East conflict strains global oil and gas supply chains
22+ hour, 13+ min ago (436+ words) Global energy markets are on edge. Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz " a narrow waterway that handles a significant share of the world's oil and natural gas flows " has been disrupted by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East,…...
More than 1 million solar panels keep operating at this plant thanks to an army of 3, 000 sheep protecting them from their greatest threat
21+ hour, 34+ min ago (607+ words) Credits: Energies Media Internal edition The U. S. tech boom faces a critical power bottleneck. AI data centers consume up to 10 times more energy than standard searches, heavily straining the aging grid. Global climate mandates require a fast shift to 24/7 renewable power....
ADNOC's ADIPEC grew from a hotel meeting room in 1984 to the world's largest energy event with 200, 000 attendees
1+ day, 42+ min ago (387+ words) In May 1984, a young ADNOC employee stepped into a lift at Abu Dhabi's Inter Continental Hotel, rode down two floors, and walked into a modest conference room where a few hundred petroleum engineers had gathered to share technical papers. It…...
Most solar farms build fences to keep foxes out. This one gave them GPS trackers and tiny doors, and now they are raising their young beneath the panels
23+ hour, 33+ min ago (575+ words) Solar farms are becoming unexpected sanctuaries for North America's rarest predators. Global solar capacity is exploding to meet massive net-zero climate goals. Yet, these giant arrays consume millions of acres of sensitive habitats. But maybe green energy doesn't have to…...
Ballard Power is putting hydrogen fuel cells inside 64-tonne freight trucks for the first real-world heavy haul test on Earth
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (391+ words) Alberta's freight sector burns nearly 70% of the province's diesel supply and pumps roughly 12 million tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year " a scale of emissions that no incremental fix has managed to dent. Now, two 64-tonne B-train tractor-trailers…...
Terra Power progresses deployment of sodium fast reactor platform after receiving U. S. regulatory clearance
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (569+ words) While major energy transitions are rarely driven by a single event'especially in nuclear, where progress is often slowed by regulatory red tape'the U. S. government recently made a decision that moved an advanced reactor project closer to physical construction. The change in…...
Halliburton deployed a wireless acoustic barrier monitoring system on a live CO2 injection well in Western Australia, a global first for well intervention safety
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (431+ words) Removing a Christmas tree from a live CO2 injection well is not a routine job. The moment that pressure-control equipment comes off, a verified barrier between workers and the gas below becomes the only thing standing between a controlled operation and…...