Well, I suppose people want innovation to give us even cheaper electricity while making it clean. People who are optimistic about innovation in software and AI bring that optimism to the other things they do. There is a more direct connection, though, which is that the additional data centers...
Thermonuclear plants provides 17% of the electrical energy used in the United States. Clearly, nuclear power is the future and the alternative to fuel. There are many R&D carried out in extracting energy efficiently from nuclear reactors and also scaling down the size of nuclear reactors and deve...
The U.S. is providingsubsidies to keep some existing nuclear plants open,selling some large nuclear reactors to eastern Europe. But the country pinning much of its ambition on scaling up the market forsmall modular and advanced reactortechnology and building theassociated fuel enrichment capacity...
The UK's current energy system wastes renewable energy and leads to high consumer bills. Reforming the energy market with regional pricing and flexible energy usage can lower costs and incentivize green investment. The UK has the opportunity to lead a global transition to a greener, cheap...
The Inflation Reduction Act is expected to cut roughly a billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions a year by 2030, save thousands of lives a year, and prompt a transformation of the U.S. energy and transportation landscape.
The more mass something has and the faster it goes (the higher the velocity), the more kinetic energy it has. If a truck and a car are driving parallel to one another down the freeway, at the same speed, the truck has more kinetic energy than the car because it has much more mass...
All smart meters can be programmed to be pay as you go (PAYG) meters. This just means you pay for your energy up front, rather than by Direct Debit. Paying as you go can give you more control of the energy you use, and therefore more control on how much your energy costs you. You...
First, the world is geared up to producing gasoline engines by the million, so they're naturally much cheaper, better tested, and more reliable. You can buy an ordinary car for a few thousand dollars/pounds but, until recently, a fuel-cell car would have set you back hundreds of ...
In addition to longevity and self-charging capability, nuclear batteries would revolutionize smartphone design. They would makecharging portsunnecessary, so phones could be fully waterproofed and made much tougher than ever before. It’s also conceivable, as artificial diamonds become cheaper to produce...
The cheapest form of alternative energy is solar power, according to the International Energy Agency. In its 2020 World Outlook Report, the Agency found that photovoltaic solar energy is "consistently cheaper than new coal- or gas-fired power plants in most countries, and solar projects now offer...