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Raindrops flowing through narrow tubes generated electricity with five-orders-of-magnitude efficiency improvement

Rain is so ordinary it barely registers — drops hitting pavement, sliding down glass, pooling in gutters. Nobody thinks of it as a power source. But in a…

By Daniel Garcia · October 2, 2026

Ordinary raindrops falling through a pencil thin tube just powered a row of glowing lights in a discovery that could turn

BLM

BLM Utah approves Third Quarter 2026 oil and gas lease sale covering 34,596 acres across Vernal and Moab field offices

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 2

Air Products

Air Products commits $250 million to supply industrial gases for U.S. semiconductor manufacturer expansion in Arizona

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 2

Engineers India

Engineers India signs $450M contract to oversee Dangote’s $16B Lamu refinery in Kenya

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 2

A pump jack working on a Permian Basin oil pad in West Texas midday light, permian basin independent

A Permian Basin independent that started with 3,000 barrels a day fourteen years ago crossed 1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day this summer, a threshold previously held only by majors

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 2

BP sells additional five percent Browse Project stake to Japan’s Osaka Gas in latest Australian asset divestment

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 2

Oil rig

BSR signs crude oil framework agreement with ExxonMobil Asia Pacific to diversify Dung Quat Refinery feedstock supply

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 1

PureSky Illinois community solar project

PureSky launches its first Illinois community solar project reserved for income-qualified households, bringing shared solar savings to families that often get left out of rooftop programs

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 2

Between the strawberry rows and the solar panels California farmers found a financial lifeline hiding in plain

California farms use low-yield land for solar arrays and year-round electricity income

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 2

Ingka 101 MW solar project

Ingka switches on a 101 MW solar project in South Carolina, putting another large block of clean power into commercial operation

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 2

While America retreats from clean energy China is quietly building 2.8 trillion watts worth of wind and solar that analysts

China continues expanding wind and solar capacity while widening its clean-energy manufacturing lead

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 1

Solar

Egypt’s Benban solar project combines 259 MW with denser panels and 120-MWh battery

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 1

offshore wind farm turbines at dusk 15 miles off Rhode Island coast, turbines standing 65

Turbines standing 65 strong off the Rhode Island coast sent first power to New England on a Friday night, and the farm had survived two federal orders to stop building it

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 2

Red fox, Pallas's cat

Pallas’s cats were more nocturnal in wind-farm areas with greater fox dietary overlap

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 2

giant wind turbine in Germany

Brandenburg wind farm uses Nordex N175 turbines on 587-foot towers for light-wind conditions

By Anke Maree · Oct 2

wind turbine with Dynamic Yaw software

Hill of Towie wind software increased paired-turbine output by up to 2.5%

By Anke Maree · Oct 2

Energy

New Wave Offshore Energy awarded marine warranty survey contract for TotalEnergies-led AGUP Phase 2 project in southern Iraq

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 1

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Fermi 2 reactor scram control room panel with amber indicator lights, one failed electrical

One failed electrical bus at a Michigan lakeside plant killed a 1,150-megawatt reactor’s protection system power, and the chain of events it set off shows how a single lockout can cascade through three separate systems

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 2

120-foot mock reactor Virginia facility towering above engineer at base

A 120-foot mock reactor in the Virginia hills sat silent for a decade, and two veterans schooled in rocket deadlines revived it to chase the data center power crisis bearing down on American grids

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 1

Deep Isolation disposal route

Deep Isolation demonstrates a disposal route for waste left behind after nuclear fuel is recycled, tackling one of the back-end problems of the fuel cycle

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 30

In a Baltimore university lab salvaged hospital scanners and a Cold War idea that scientists buried decades ago are

Baltimore researcher tests supersonic spinning plasma fusion concept using salvaged hospital scanners

By Daniel Garcia · Sep 30

Ameresco and Terrestrial Energy IMSR project

Ameresco and Terrestrial Energy push their IMSR project forward at a Maryland Army base, bringing an advanced reactor concept deeper into the U.S. military energy landscape

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 30

Nuclear

Westinghouse-Bechtel and PEJ reach commercial agreement on EPC contract for Poland’s first nuclear power plant

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 29

Ordinary raindrops falling through a pencil thin tube just powered a row of glowing lights in a discovery that could turn

Raindrops flowing through narrow tubes generated electricity with five-orders-of-magnitude efficiency improvement

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 2

SPARC fusion magnets on assembly jig at Devens Massachusetts facility, 60 acre campus

On a 60-acre campus in Massachusetts, 18 superconducting magnets chilled to 8 kelvin are being assembled around a chamber that will bottle plasma 6 times hotter than the sun’s core, and the cryogenic plant hit its first commissioning target

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 2

Holyoke Dam

Holyoke Dam fish elevators passed 470,407 American shad during the 2026 migration

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 2

5 MW nuclear reactor module on cargo pallet inside a military transport aircraft

Packed into 8 pallets and carried 700 miles aboard three cargo jets, a minivan-sized 5 MW nuclear reactor landed in Utah for the first time any such machine has flown

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 1

Sockeye fish at a hydropower dam

Washington sockeye spend about seven days reaching trap before hydropower dam transport

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 1

Rosen

ASME presents IPCE Lifetime Achievement Honor to ROSEN Group founder Hermann Rosen at 2026 conference in Calgary

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 30

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NewHydrogen is scouting Utah for the first ThermoLoop deployment, looking for a site where heat could do the heavy lifting in clean hydrogen production

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 26

Hyroad IMC Logistics’ hydrogen truck fleet

Hyroad starts fueling and servicing IMC Logistics’ hydrogen truck fleet in California, putting the zero-emission rigs into regular support operations

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 23

SunHydrogen Austin ProtoHub

SunHydrogen moves its Austin ProtoHub forward as full-size hydrogen modules close in on the 9% efficiency mark

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 19

Power to Hydrogen and Repsol AEM electrolysis

Power to Hydrogen and Repsol push AEM electrolysis past a 1,250-hour pilot, giving the technology a long-duration test under its belt

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 16

NewHydrogen third patent ThermoLoop

NewHydrogen has filed a third patent around ThermoLoop, its heat-driven process designed to make hydrogen without relying on conventional electrolysis

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 12

OroCarbo 12 Haffner systems

OroCarbo reserves 12 Haffner systems for a string of renewable hydrogen hubs planned across the Western U.S.

By Prince Sibanda · Sep 12

Beneath Western Australia s red iron rich soil a natural hydrogen engine may have been running for millions

Beneath Western Australia’s red, iron-rich soil, a natural hydrogen engine may have been running for millions of years and scientists just learned how to turn up the power by injecting water into ancient rock

By Daniel Garcia · Sep 11

A tiny startup cracked green hydrogen s biggest

A tiny startup cracked green hydrogen’s biggest problem by selling a “hidden ingredient” found in every drop of water and using the profits to fund clean fuel production at prices that could make federal subsidies irrelevant

By Carlos Albero Rojas · Sep 8

Latest News

1

BLM Utah approves Third Quarter 2026 oil and gas lease sale covering 34,596 acres across Vernal and Moab field offices

Oct 2

2

Turbines standing 65 strong off the Rhode Island coast sent first power to New England on a Friday night, and the farm had survived two federal orders to stop building it

Oct 2

3

Pallas’s cats were more nocturnal in wind-farm areas with greater fox dietary overlap

Oct 2

4

One failed electrical bus at a Michigan lakeside plant killed a 1,150-megawatt reactor’s protection system power, and the chain of events it set off shows how a single lockout can cascade through three separate systems

Oct 2

5

Brandenburg wind farm uses Nordex N175 turbines on 587-foot towers for light-wind conditions

Oct 2

6

PureSky launches its first Illinois community solar project reserved for income-qualified households, bringing shared solar savings to families that often get left out of rooftop programs

Oct 2

7

Air Products commits $250 million to supply industrial gases for U.S. semiconductor manufacturer expansion in Arizona

Oct 2

8

On a 60-acre campus in Massachusetts, 18 superconducting magnets chilled to 8 kelvin are being assembled around a chamber that will bottle plasma 6 times hotter than the sun’s core, and the cryogenic plant hit its first commissioning target

Oct 2

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Hugo RojasTech Editor & Advisor

Kelly LippkeStaff Writer

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Anke MareenStaff Writer

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