Enlarge / The Nesjavellir Geothermal Power Station. Geothermal power has long been popular in volcanic countries like Iceland, where hot water bubbles from the ground. Gretar Ívarsson/Wikimedia Commons reader comments 97 Glistening in the dry expanses of the Nevada desert is an unusual kind of power plant that harnesses energy not from the sun or ..
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Enlarge / Mining operations start right at the edge of Bulqizë, Albania. reader comments 23 “The search for geologic hydrogen today is where the search for oil was back in the 19th century—we’re just starting to understand how this works,” said Frédéric-Victor Donzé, a geologist at Université Grenoble Alpes. Donzé is part of a team ..
Enlarge / With color, high resolution. Google/EDF reader comments 21 When discussing climate change, attention generally focuses on our soaring carbon dioxide emissions. But levels of methane have risen just as dramatically, and it’s a far more potent greenhouse gas. And, unlike carbon dioxide, it’s not the end result of a valuable process; methane largely ..
reader comments 259 Just before the holiday break, the US Energy Information Agency released data on the country’s electrical generation. Because of delays in reporting, the monthly data runs through October, so it doesn’t provide a complete picture of the changes we’ve seen in 2023. But some of the trends now seem locked in for ..
Enlarge / NREL has taken some of the hassle out of getting permits for projects like these. reader comments 35 Can government agencies develop software to help cut bureaucratic red tape through automation? The answer is “yes,” according to the promising results achieved by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which has saved thousands of ..
More than 250 organizations took part last week in GridEx VII, the seventh edition of the biennial exercise focusing on the security of the electrical grid in the United States and Canada. GridEx is organized by the Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC) at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and is the ..
Rubrica settimanale Sos Energia, frutto della collaborazione fra Key4biz e SosTariffe. Una guida per il consumatore con la comparazione dei prezzi dell’elettricità, del gas e dell’acqua. Per consultare tutti gli articoli, clicca qui. Già lo scorso anno, con la guerra tra Russia e Ucraina, abbiamo visto come le tensioni geopolitiche possono avere riflessi importanti sul mercato dell’energia elettrica e del ..
reader comments 78 with Humanity is on the cusp of radical changes in how we produce and consume energy, according to a new evaluation by the International Energy Agency. And that leaves us in a place where small changes can produce huge differences in the energy economy by the end of the decade—even a slight ..
reader comments 21 with As the utility of AI systems has grown dramatically, so has their energy demand. Training new systems is extremely energy intensive, as it generally requires massive data sets and lots of processor time. Executing a trained system tends to be much less involved—smartphones can easily manage it in some cases. But, ..
Enlarge / The equipment needed for drilling a borehole of this type. reader comments 81 with On the outskirts of the small town of Folschviller in eastern France stand three nondescript sheds. One of these temporary structures has recently become a hive of activity due to a continuous stream of visitors, including scientists, journalists, and ..