Slashdot reader oumuamua writes that two U.S. nuclear plants owned by Exelon “were almost shutdown prematurely…but were saved at the last minute by the Illinois Senate.”
The Illinois Senate has approved a clean energy deal which includes a subsidy f…
General Motors urged some owners of Chevrolet Bolt electric cars to park and store the vehicles at least 50 feet away from other cars to reduce the risk that a spontaneous fire could spread. Bloomberg reports: The Detroit automaker has recalled all of …
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) currently under construction in Cadarache, southern France, will see cost overruns and delays due to the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, its top official said on Friday. Euractiv r…
Rolls-Royce’s “Spirit of Innovation” all-electric airplane completed a 15 minute flight, marking “the beginning of an intensive flight-testing phase in which we will be collecting valuable performance data on the aircraft’s electrical power and propuls…
The New York Times reports:
Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland are working to determine whether three uranium cubes they have in their possession were produced by Germany’s failed nuclear program dur…
ABC News reports:
Inspired by the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps, President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are pushing for a modern counterpart: a Civilian Climate Corps that would create hundreds of thousands of jobs building trails, …
The New York Times looks at “a wave of new battery technologies that could lead to novel designs in consumer electronics and help accelerate the electrification of cars and airplanes. They may even help store electricity on the power grid, lending a ha…
David Chandler writes via MIT News: It was a moment three years in the making, based on intensive research and design work: On Sept. 5, for the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped up to a field strength of 20 t…
Three Simple Policy Heuristics – “The most important thing to understand is this: Harm ripples, kindness ripples. People you hurt go on to hurt other people. People who are treated with kindness become better people, or more prosperous people, and go o…
バッテリー発火の可能性により 2 回のリコールが発表されている Chevrolet Bolt EV のオーナーが GM の指示通り屋外の駐車場に駐車していたところ、夜中に爆発して両隣に駐車していた車も焼いてしまったそうだ(オーナーの Reddit 投稿、 Mashable の記事)。
1 回目のリコールでは診断結果に応じてバッテリーを交換し、異常を検出可能なソフトウェアアップデートをインストールしていた。しかし修理済みの車両 2 台で発火事故が報告され、バッテリーの欠陥が確認されたことで 2 回目…
