Energy

Six innovative ways to float skyscraper-sized wind turbines
While most offshore wind farms are firmly rooted in the seabed, engineers are developing new ways to float enormous wind turbines.
Shining a light on oil fields to make them more sustainable
Sensors and analytics give oil well operators real-time alerts when things go wrong, so they can respond before they become disasters.
US will accelerate geothermal exploration on federal land
The Bureau of Land Management is taking steps to make it easier for public lands to be considered for geothermal power systems.
A shield of lunar dust could cool the Earth, says Harvard scientists
World’s biggest direct air capture plant is trapping CO2 in Iceland
How heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future
First small modular nuclear reactor certified in US
This MIT research could help us unlock smaller, lighter, and safer batteries
New experiment produces hydrogen with LEDs
Paper-thin solar cell can turn any surface into a power source
After 50 years, fusion power hits a major milestone
New battery is cheaper than lithium-ion with four times the capacity