Energy
Nuclear power, fusion, batteries, grids, geothermal systems and the technologies reshaping reliable low-carbon energy.
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Western Australia’s Rocks Could Become Hydrogen Factories
Hot water and an iron-rich mineral can generate hydrogen. New attention on an Australian study reveals why the shape of the rock may matter as much as its chemistry.
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Australia’s New Grid Battery Gives Solar Power a Longer Shift
A Brisbane industrial site is putting sodium-sulfur storage to work. The installation offers a practical look at keeping useful solar energy available beyond the middle of the day.
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Nvidia and Google Want Data Centres That Know When to Turn Down the Power
A new alliance wants AI facilities to ease pressure on the grid by changing when they consume electricity. The promise depends on commitments utilities can verify.
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Rocket Lab’s New Solar Cell Cuts Weight From the Space Power Race
Rocket Lab’s new space solar cell tackles a practical challenge: producing useful power without carrying unnecessary mass into orbit.
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MIT’s Hydrogen Experiment Tackles a Stubborn Clean-Energy Bottleneck
Researchers have used electricity to help release hydrogen from ammonia at lower temperatures. The laboratory result addresses a difficult transport problem, with cost and scale still unresolved.
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Fusion’s Next Leap Could Start With Two Supercomputers an Ocean Apart
British and American fusion researchers plan to connect their AI computing efforts. The goal is to build models that learn across different experiments, giving the pursuit of fusion power a stronger scientific foundation.
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Australia’s Solar Boom Is Getting a Battery the Whole Street Can Share
ARENA has reached 100 community battery installations. The next challenge is turning shared storage into a useful deal for households—including people without solar panels.
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Old EV Batteries Are Back at Work on Texas’s Power Grid
A new Texas storage project is putting used electric-car batteries back to work. The clever part is getting packs with different histories to behave like one dependable system.
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Tesla’s New Texas Factory Is Building Batteries Too Big for a Car
Megapack 3 production has started in Texas. Tesla’s expansion connects a new manufacturing line with a much bigger challenge: getting stored electricity onto the grid when it is needed.
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Wave Energy’s Next Test Is 11 Kilometres Out to Sea
Oregon’s newly opened PacWave South gives wave machines a grid connection and a demanding ocean test. The infrastructure is ready; proving dependable power comes next.
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The Next Battery Leap May Be Hiding in the Liquid Inside
A lithium-metal study reports high cell energy and encouraging durability tests. The innovation is the electrolyte—and the results need careful separation.
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Panasonic’s 150°C Battery Is Built for Places Lithium-Ion Fears
Panasonic Energy has developed a small solid-state battery designed to keep operating at 150°C. It is not an electric-car breakthrough yet—but it could remove a major weak point from sensors inside hot, hard-to-reach machines.