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Electricity through osmosis: Japan opens landmark osmotic power plant

Posted on September 17, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

Energy Electricity through osmosis: Japan opens landmark osmotic power plant By Chelsea Haney September 16, 2025 A desalination plant in Fukuoka has been connected to a new kind of osmotic electricity generator. Fukuoka Area Waterworks Imagine generating power not from sunlight … Continue reading →

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Facing cold winter. Kept this article from 11th September 2022. John Horgan writes for Independent “Sleep-walking into an energy crisis worse than the 1970’s. Who foretold the changes in world markets since 2022 and supplies of oil and gas. Grok 4 could not break the paywall but this synopsis is worth reading especially before the Budget

Posted on September 13, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

See new posts Home Opinion Comment We’re sleep-walking into an energy crisis worse than in the 1970s, but we can still avert the danger if we wake up Oil and gas firms should be allowed to explore deeper gas horizons … Continue reading →

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GZERO Everything is political Big Oil is getting mad at Trump. Comment: If you have access to Irish Independent archives, I have a paper copy of article by David Horgan dated 11th September 2022. It should be republished and if people have access read it. Ireland is in choppy waters but as we face winter Oil / Gas will be our weakness. “Sleep-walking into an energy crisis worse than the 1970’s”

Posted on September 12, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

everything is political Open Search Sign Up GZERO Daily: our free newsletter about global politics
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New Atlas: Norway and World’s Largest Sand Battery

Posted on August 28, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

Energy The world’s largest sand battery just went live in Finland By Abhimanyu Ghoshal August 27, 2025 With its 100-MWh capacity, Pornainen’s sand battery is the largest in the world Polar Night Energy View 3 Images View gallery – 3 images … Continue reading →

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The Deep View: Google goes nuclear (again)

Posted on May 9, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

Google goes nuclear (again) Source: ChatGPT 4o Image Generation Google announced that it’s bankrolling Elementl Power, a two-year old company with LinkedIn listing under 20 staff, to identify and permit three U.S. reactor sites, each slated for ≥ 600 MW. One block that … Continue reading →

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Deep View: How AI will shape the future of energy

Posted on April 10, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

Report: How AI will shape the future of energy Source: Unsplash The International Energy Agency (IEA) today published an extensive (300-page!) report on the complex relationship between artificial intelligence and energy.  The work aims to inject data-based projections into a landscape that … Continue reading →

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Lord Bebo on X: “Europe in the Grips of Gas Imperialists.

Posted on April 1, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

LMAO: Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo Europe is considering increasing imports of Russian gas amid increasingly tense relations with Trump. Because now the White House has a president who “also wants to blackmail the world with his gas.” and Europe is at … Continue reading →

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Infrastructure startup has a plan to keep the data center lights on “…natural gas turbines, a multi-billion-dollar deal intended to provide power to data centers.”. Ireland we need to start thinking about energy and the implications of being the serfs in Techno Feudalism 

Posted on March 18, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

Infrastructure startup Crusoe has a plan to keep the data center lights onSource: UnsplashSpoiler alert: it involves natural gas.  AI infrastructure startup Crusoe — which is already working with OpenAI on a Stargate data center in Texas — said it … Continue reading →

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New Atlas: Europe plays catch-up to China with gargantuan wind turbine

Posted on February 10, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

Energy Europe plays catch-up to China with gargantuan wind turbine By Abhimanyu Ghoshal February 08, 2025 Siemens Gamesa could claim the title of the world’s largest wind turbine – but China’s Dongfang is hot on its heels Siemens Gamesa View 4 … Continue reading →

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Small and advanced nuclear reactors: Closing the fuel cycle? Comment: Ireland needs to really consider advanced nuclear reactors.

Posted on February 10, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

The authoritative guide to ensuring science and technology make life on Earth better, not worse. An engineer uses a three-dimensional computer-assisted virtual environment to consider new designs for a virtual nuclear reactor, at the Idaho National Laboratory (IHL) Center for … Continue reading →

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