1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (247+ words) Boom’s CEO recently posted a video of a rotor being balanced and said that if the centre of gravity of that disk is out by one millionth of an inch, it can destabilise the whole machine. This is the high…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (376+ words) Fusion research to get major boost with new high-temperature superconducting tape manufacturing Interesting Engineering A Munich-based company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Germany’s State of Lower Saxony Proxima Fusion’s deal with the state aims at…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (102+ words) Interesting Engineering No US power plant currently generates electricity from superhot geothermal fluids. Geothermal energy comes from the underground heat trapped and stored deep beneath the Earth’s crust. It can be accessed through shallow ground, hot water reservoirs, or deep…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (545+ words) The new organic flow battery partnership could bring scalable, long-duration energy storage closer to commercial use. XL Batteries and ENEOS Holdings have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance an organic flow battery technology aimed at large-scale, long-duration energy storage....

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (495+ words) The new 10C battery system could help data centers handle rapid power swings without straining the grid. A new battery platform from DIMAAG-AI and Toshiba is designed to handle the rapid power swings of AI data centers while providing backup power…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (402+ words) Researchers at Yunnan University and Southwest United Graduate School have demonstrated functional underwater solar cells operating at a depth of 10 meters (33 feet) in the South China Sea. The achievement smashes previous limits. Earlier attempts to harvest solar energy underwater stalled…...

3+ day, 9+ min ago   (505+ words) Antares plans to test its Mark-1 reactor for more than six months in 2027 on a ground-to-space demonstration. The US has not operated a nuclear reactor in space since 1965. Antares now wants to change that with a $161 million defense award. The…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (434+ words) The new partnership aims to adapt powerful pulsed lasers designed for fusion energy into potential military defense systems. RTX Ventures has invested in laser fusion company Xcimer Energy to develop pulsed-laser technology for potential use in US military directed-energy systems....

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (516+ words) A full-size reactor canister survived a 100-foot descent and retrieval as Deep Fission tests its underground nuclear concept. Deep Fission has successfully lowered a 20-foot reactor canister 100 feet underground and retrieved it using commercial drilling equipment, testing a key part…...

4+ day, 8+ min ago   (182+ words) Interesting Engineering How stacked solar panels work Oxford PV shipped the first commercial stacked solar panels in September 2024, silicon cells coated with a few hundred nanometres of perovskite that harvests the blue light silicon wastes as heat. In a factory…...