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Tesla Considering a Bid for Sigma Lithium

Construction at the Grota do Cirilo lithium project in Brazil. (Image courtesy of Sigma Lithium.)Tesla Inc. has been weighing a takeover of battery-metals miner…

Thermal Plant

Team Develops New Way to Extract Thermal Energy From Waste Heat Sources and Reuse It via Pressure Control

Barocaloric thermal batteries: Concept and realization. Credit: Institute of Metal ResearchA Chinese research team has developed a new concept for extracting th…

Energy Technology

Harnessing Plant Molecules to Harvest Solar Energy

Plasmon to Current technology. Fluorophores produce an induced current in the metal, which is proportional to the magnitude of the fluorophore’s extinctio…

Energy Storage Battery

Quantumscape Seeks to Boost Cathode Capacity Loading to ~5 Mah/CM2 This Year for Energy Cells

Solid-state battery startup QuantumScape, which successfully shipped its first 24-layer prototype A0 lithium-metal battery cells to automotive OEMs for testing …

Wind Farm

EDP Renewables and Mytilineos Sign a 78 MW Wind PPA

EDP Renewables (EDPR) and MYTILINEOS – Energy & Metals (RIC: MYTr.AT, Bloomberg: MYTIL.GA, ADR: MYTHY US) signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA…

Energy Saving

By Growing Uniform Lithium Crystals, Engineers Progress Toward Fast-Charging Lithium-Metal Batteries

In a new Nature Energy study, engineers report progress toward lithium-metal batteries that charge quickly—as fast as an hour. This fast charging is thanks to …

Hydrogen Technology

University of Surrey Researchers Make ‘Game-Changing’ Findings for Hydrogen Production

University of Surrey researchers have said they have found a type of metal-free catalysts for the direct conversion of methane into hydrogen, which they believe…

Energy Storage Battery

New Sodium, Aluminum Battery Aims to Integrate Renewables for Grid Resiliency

A new battery design could help ease integration of renewable energy into the nation's electrical grid at lower cost, using Earth-abundant metals, according to …

Nuclear Power Plant

Lucas Heights Redevelopment Project Gets Under Way

The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has begun a project at its Lucas Heights facility near Sydney to remove general solid waste, …

Nuclear waste

US Approval for Metal Storage Cask

A metal cask for the storage of used nuclear fuel, jointly developed by Doosan Enerbility of South Korea and NAC International of the USA, has received design c…

Thermal Coal

Investors With $2.2 Trillion in Assets Ask Glencore to Disclose Thermal Coal Plans

　　Newlands coal mine produces thermal and metallurgical coal. (Image courtesy of Glencore.)　　Glencore (LON: GLEN) is facing fresh pressure from investors wi…

Coal Production

Alpha Announces 2023 Full-year Operational Guidance

Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc., a leading US supplier of metallurgical products for the steel industry, has announced its operational guidance for the 2023…

Hydrogen Project

Highlighting Safety Standards For Hydrogen In Power Generation

Image credit: 123rf.comHydrogen has been handled and used in a safe manner for decades by industries for refining petroleum, treating metals, producing fertilis…

Energy Storage Battery

Research Team Reports Breakthrough in Metal Gas Batteries

Hong Kong researchers have discovered a new way to boost metal carbon dioxide battery capacity.

Australia

Australia Launches Research into Energy-Efficient Metaverse Technologies

University of Wollongong Professor Willy Susilo has been awarded more than Au$400,000 (US$266,000) for research into green and sustainable energy-efficient meta…