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American and South Korean scientists just fed water bottles, shopping bags and yogurt tubs into a single reactor without sorting them first, drawing off hydrogen more than 90% pure while most of the plastic's carbon came out as solid rock
4+ hour, 9+ min ago (1031+ words) Rinsing out a yogurt tub and checking the little number stamped into the bottom feels like the responsible thing to do. That number is a resin code, and it is there because most recycling processes only work on one kind…...
While every wave machine you have seen floats where the storms live, the generator first in line for America's first commercial berth hides underwater, braking itself when the sea turns ugly, and it still has not left the dock
11+ hour, 39+ min ago (918+ words) Power purchase agreements are the least interesting paperwork in the energy business. A buyer promises to take the electricity, a generator promises to make it, both sides argue about price for a while, and somebody signs. The machine doing the…...
The most photographed roof in Welsh sport just turned out to be hiding 3,296 solar panels, craned over the trusses of Cardiff's rugby stadium in six quiet weeks, and on the sunniest afternoons the building now runs largely off the grid
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (636+ words) The physical work happened in the 2025 off-season. EvoEnergy fitted the whole array over about six weeks, timed from mid-August to the end of September so it would not clash with events. The system started generating in February 2026. What changed in…...
Finland just ran a nuclear reactor past regulators from five countries and none found a showstopper, a machine with no turbine at all, running at the pressure of four car tires, built to do one thing: heat the pipes under a city
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (1606+ words) Almost every reactor announcement of the past two years has arrived with the same thing bolted on: megawatts of electricity, usually promised to a grid operator or a data center campus. The machine exists so a turbine can spin. A…...
A German drone boat built to fire out of a 21-inch torpedo tube just passed its first sea trials, a 15-foot hull with a keel that folds flat and a mast that collapses, so a submarine can look above the waves without ever coming up
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (1329+ words) A submarine is only worth something for as long as nobody knows where it is. The problem is that most of what a submarine wants to look at happens above the waterline, and the second it pushes a mast up…...
A desalination pod designed to trade power-hungry pumps for the weight of 1,300 feet of ocean just cleared its first endurance run, three months at 93% uptime, and gets lowered into Santa Monica Bay this fall for the test that counts
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (1447+ words) Desalination in California usually ends in a fight. Somebody proposes a plant on the coast, the plant needs a huge intake and somewhere to put the leftover brine, and then everybody spends a decade arguing about it in hearing rooms....
Six seabed turbines built for a French strait where the current outruns most sailboats just got stuck on a single missing document, with every permit signed, the shipyard waiting 20 miles up the coast and the tide arriving on schedule twice a day
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (1395+ words) Big infrastructure projects normally fall apart for reasons you can see coming. The money dries up, a court freezes the permit, the local objections pile up, or the hardware turns out not to survive contact with the real world. France…...
A drone killer that fires nothing at all just broke cover in England, built to fly into a swarm, switch on a microwave and knock out more than 50 drones in one flight by frying their electronics, then land, get picked up and go again
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (1020+ words) Shooting down a drone has always been a targeting problem. You find it, you point something at it, you deal with it, and then you start the whole thing over for the next one. Missiles work that way. Lasers work…...
A nuclear reactor shelved almost a decade ago just got pulled out of retirement to float on a barge, with a UK company studying how to build the whole plant inside a shipyard like a ship and tow it to any port the grid can't reach
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (886+ words) Building a nuclear reactor on land in the US usually starts with an argument over where to put it. You pick a site, then spend years in environmental reviews, licensing hearings, and local objections before anyone pours a foundation. By…...
The radioactive dye in a US heart or bone scan often starts in a 1960s reactor buried in Dutch coastal dunes that quietly makes 30% of the world's medical isotopes, and its replacement is going in now with divers pouring concrete underwater
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (940+ words) If you have ever had a bone scan, a cardiac stress test, or one of those procedures where a technician injects a tiny amount of something radioactive and then watches it show up on a screen, there is a good…...