Power Plants

Satellites are our eyes in the sky or, er, in space. Now, a coalition of groups is turning to satellites and AI…

Molten lava from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has entered the grounds of Puna Geothermal Venture, a geothermal power…

The Clean Power Plan set a new standard for the U.S. response to climate change. It was supposed to reduce…

We already saw how the new $1.6 billion sarcophagus—the 843-foot wide, 354-foot tall steel shield that entombs the…

The act of boiling water helps us brew coffee and cook pasta—and it’s also what fuels most of the world’s energy…

Biomass cogeneration doesn't scream "family fun for all ages" to most of us, but the city of Uppsala, Sweden, is…

Just 90 miles off the tip of Florida lies a half-baked, abandoned relic of the Cold War-era arms race—what was…

On June 2, President Obama proposed new EPA regulations to reduce the carbon dioxide pollution that's causing global…

It's come to light that two US power plants were hit by malware attacks in 2012, after employees used infected USB…

Keeping the Western hemisphere's single largest coal-fired power plant running nonstop is no easy feat—especially,…

How does a court seize a nuclear plant? Well, that damn Russian floating nuclear plant is cursed. After a series of…

The U.S.' nuclear plants are getting older, becoming more unstable with age even as we demand more power of them.…

A new hybrid power plant to be built in Turkey will combine a traditional gas-fired steam turbine with solar thermal…

The Japanese authorities have announced that radiation levels surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant…

After today's earthquake in Japan, there was concern over the country's nuclear power plants: though 13 of the…

Bourne Energy's BPP-2 puts a 30-pound, 500-watt generating hydroelectric plant on your back. That's like being able…

Shockingly cheap Apple tablets, Twitter books, Google power plants, Samurai Mario and a bunch of things that didn't…

Poor Mr. Polar Bear. When he's not jumping from melting ice chunk to ice chunk trying desperately not to drown, he's…

Maybe you've heard the plans for "clean coal" (aka carbon capture and storage), a technology that collects…

Here's an idea that's not going to go over well with the Department of Homeland Security: Toshiba has reportedly…