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Electric Car

NIO Says Tesla Can’t Dictate EV Prices in China, and It Won’t Partake in the Price War

According to NIO’s CEO, William Li (Li Bin), Tesla has little influence over EV prices in China, unlike in the US, where it dominates the market.NIO CEO says T…

Energy Technology

Dynamic Radioisotope Power System Development for NASA Missions

The multimission radioisotope thermoelectric generator for NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is tested at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in 2020. The…

Hydrogen Production

Statkraft to Supply Renewable Power for Fortescue’s Holmaneset 300 MW Green Hydrogen & Green Ammonia Project

Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) has secured renewable power for its proposed Holmaneset green energy project, entering into a long-term Power Purchase Agreeme…

Energy Technology

Partnership Unveils Plan For Helium Test Facility

X-Energy Reactor Company, LLC and Kinectrics have announced a partnership to design, construct and operate a commercial-scale facility to test and verify the pe…

Electric Car

Alfa Romeo Starts Production of Its First Plug-in Hybrid; Tonale Offers 30 Miles Electric Range

Alfa Romeo started retail production for the all-new 2024 Tonale PHEV. (Earlier post.) Alfa Romeo’s first plug-in hybrid is built at the Giambattista Vico…

Oil Exploration

Fresh Batch of Offshore Contracts Brings Saipem $650 Million

Italian oilfield services provider Saipem has been awarded three new offshore engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contracts and two f…

Nuclear Power Plant

The Future Looks Bright for Nuclear Power—Dare We Use the ‘R’ Word Again?

The term nuclear renaissance was very popular in the early 2000s. Nuclear power plant operators had substantially improved existing plant performance, and many …

Gas turbine engine

Successful Test of Hydrogen in Gas Turbine Driving a Natural Gas Compressor in Germany

A project led by two major European gas transmission system operators (TSOs) has successfully tested blending rates of up to 25% hydrogen on a Titan 130 SoLoNOx…

Carbon Emissions

Potent Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Depleting Chemicals Called Cfcs Are Back on the Rise Following an International Ban, a New Study Finds

A U.S. chemical plant in Louisiana that produces a common refrigerant may be partly to blame for increased emissions of CFCs—chemicals thousands of times more …

Nuclear Power Plant

Vogtle Unit 3 Generates Electricity, Connects to Power Grid

Georgia Power has announced another milestone for the two-unit reactor expansion at the Plant Vogtle nuclear power site, as Unit 3 on April 1 successfully gener…

Carbon Emissions

A New Report Is Out on Hurricane Ian’s Destructive Path. The Numbers Are Horrific

The category 4 storm was the costliest in Florida’s history. Storm surges rose as high as 15 feet and over 20 inches of rain fell on some communities.

Thermal Plant

JERA’s Anegasaki Thermal Power Station Unit Starts Operations

Its second unit has a 650MW capacity.JERA started the operations of the Anegasaki Thermal Power Station New Unit 2 with a capacity of around 650 megawatts (MW) …

Hydrogen Production

Element 1 and Mmm Energy to Deliver Methanol-To-Hydrogen Generators to the Energy Industry

Element 1 and MMM Energy have signed a strategic partnership agreement to enable the production of methanol-to-hydrogen generators.The agreement, signed through…

Energy Saving

Tapping Seagull Optimization Algorithm for Greener and More Energy-Efficient Edge-Cloud Data Centers

Owners of technology and industrial centers have extensively utilized edge-cloud data centers (ECDC) to meet user requirements, yet the consequent energy expend…

Energy Storage Battery

Team Finds Major Storage Capacity in Water-Based Batteries

Researchers at Texas A&M University have discovered a 1,000% difference in the storage capacity of metal-free, water-based battery electrodes.These batteries ar…