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France will start building its first new nuclear reactors in decades as part of efforts to meet its promises to reduce planet-warming emissions, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday. The Associated Press reports: He spoke as climate negot…

Hecate Energy’s plans for a 500-acre solar farm in upstate New York were cut by 50% “after facing an outcry from some in the community who feared the installation would mar the bucolic setting,” reports the New York Times. (Alternate URL here.)
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During the first three months of 2021, the United States installed its 100,000th EV charger. Ars Technica reports on the important electric vehicle milestone: Of course, the actual composition of those chargers is important. It’s no good having half a …

The US Naval Research Laboratory (AFL) is developing an Argon Fluoride (ArF) laser that may one day make fusion power a practical commercial technology. New Atlas reports: The wide-bandwidth ultraviolet laser is designed to have the shortest laser wave…

A new study by Wang and a team including researchers from the US Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC), and battery company A123 Systems, […] shows that batteries with recycled cathodes can be as good as, or even better than those using new state-of-th…

headless 曰く、GM は 12 日、バッテリー欠陥による Chevrolet Bolt EV / EUV のリコールについて、費用をバッテリー供給元の LG 電子が補償することで合意に達したと発表した (ニュースリリース、 The Verge の記事)。

当初、欠陥バッテリーを製造したのは LG Chem (LG 化学) の特定の工場だと発表されていたが、その後の発表では「LG」のみの表記になっていた。LG 電子 (LG Electronics) の名前が出るのは今回が初めてだ。GM は …

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: The Biden administration is planning to aggressively expand offshore wind energy capacity in the United States, potentially holding as many as seven new offshore lease sales by 2025. The move was announced …

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Conversation: Our new paper in Nature Communications presents a global assessment of how many rooftop solar panels we’d need to generate enough renewable energy for the whole world — and where we’d need to …

“A group of ten EU countries, led by France, have asked the European Commission to recognize nuclear power as a low-carbon energy source that should be part of the bloc’s decades-long transition towards climate neutrality,” reports EuroNews. While gree…

Gizmodo takes a hard look at a “growing sense of excitement” about collaboration between bitcoin-mining operations and nuclear power plants (which are now plagued by high operating costs compared to renewables as well as natural gas):

Of the three par…