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Wasps are “squatting” in ancient tree shelters built for ants, adding a hidden threat to forests already battered by deforestation

Inside the hollow stems of young Macaranga trees in Malaysian Borneo, something was wrong. Researchers cutting open these tropical plants expected to find what has lived there for…

By Daniel Garcia · October 8, 2026

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Oil

Oil and gas industry adopts synthetic ropes, autonomous hooks, and acoustic positioning to advance deepwater subsea lifting operations

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 8

Oil refinery

Oil refineries adopt smart sensor systems on cranes to automate collision avoidance and safety compliance

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 8

Oil

Petro Matad reports reduced H1 2026 loss and zero oil revenue as PetroChina sales agreement remains unsigned

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 8

Hydraulic

Hydraulic lifting systems advance with digital controls, high-pressure engineering, and biodegradable fluids to support global oil and gas logistics

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 8

Energy

Excelerate Energy selects Nord Gas Solutions to supply regasification module for its first FSRU conversion project

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 7

Energy

Vantris Energy wins RM1.8 billion in offshore T&I contracts from PETRONAS Carigali and PTTEP in Malaysia

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 7

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Wasps are “squatting” in ancient tree shelters built for ants, adding a hidden threat to forests already battered by deforestation

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 8

Gobustan solar farm panels across Caspian scrubland in Azerbaijan

Built on 741 acres of Caspian-edge scrubland, the 100 MW Gobustan solar farm switched on last month as the first auction-won plant in one of the world’s most oil-dependent nations

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 8

floating solar panels on Tengeh Reservoir

Otters return to Singapore reservoir shared with 122,000-panel floating solar farm as scientists expand wildlife monitoring

By Anke Maree · Oct 8

Africa s solar revolution is growing twice as fast as the world s energy watchdogs can see hidden beneath a flood of

Chinese solar exports reveal a hidden 23-GW surge across Africa that official energy data failed to capture

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 8

floating solar panel structure on water

China’s floating solar field changed microscopic life, with zooplankton hatching earlier and rotifers becoming more abundant after construction

By Anke Maree · Oct 8

Wind farm

Portugal’s WindFloat Atlantic became a no-fishing refuge where octopus and fish stayed more abundant after eight years

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 8

collapsed wind turbine blade on blade transport vehicle on Black Forest mountain road

A blade transport convoy tilting a 279-foot rotor through a Black Forest S-curve lost hydraulic pressure, and the falling blade crushed both vehicles under 27 metric tons

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 8

Wind

South Dakota wind review found owl and hawk occupying nests originally built by bald and golden eagles

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 8

Nordex wind turbine

Nordex Group wins 56 MW Austrian wind order from WEB Windenergie, marking first N175/6.X deployment in the country

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 7

World's tallest turbine rising 1,197 feet above Lusatia's former coalfields in Schipkau, lusatia s old

Planted on Lusatia’s old coalfields, a 1,197-foot turbine in Schipkau became the world’s tallest, its hub riding winds that blow twice as hard as those at any standing tower

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 7

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Full-scale molten lead reactor vessel being installed at an Italian research center, 155 metric tons

Seated near Bologna with 155 metric tons of molten lead and no uranium inside, a full-scale reactor vessel began generating real electricity using electric heaters in place of a fission core

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 8

Holtec

Holtec submits key nuclear safety report to NRC, advancing construction permit process for two Michigan SMR-300 reactors

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 7

1,356-megawatt reactor containment dome on the Niigata coastline after control rod alarm restart

Sitting on the Sea of Japan coastline in Niigata, a 1,356-megawatt reactor that went dark more than fourteen years ago returned to commercial power, but a control rod alarm halted it twice before the milestone held

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 7

US and South Korea announce $120 billion framework to build up to eight nuclear reactors on American federal sites

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 7

Michigan reactor containment dome with electrical switchyard at dusk, michigan reactor scram, 83 percent power

Running at 83 percent power on a July evening, a Michigan reactor shut itself down when one locked-out electrical bus silenced both safety circuits at once

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 6

Holtec

Holtec submits key safety report to NRC, advancing construction permit process for two SMR-300 reactors at Palisades site in Michigan

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 6

Cherenkov glow in a university research reactor pool during remote reactor power control test, sitting 1 700

Sitting 1,700 miles from the reactor it controlled, an AI loop trimmed power on a 64-year-old Indiana teaching reactor in real time, the first autonomous adjustment ever recorded in the US

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 8

sodium-ion grid battery container at Wisconsin MISO facility, 3 1 mwh

A 3.1 MWh grid battery energized in eastern Wisconsin runs with no cooling system, and its passive sodium ion design outperformed lithium iron phosphate on a 15-state grid

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 7

Laboratory reactor interior coated in graphite from methane pyrolysis hydrogen process, reactor splitting natural

A reactor splitting natural gas at 1,832°F to make clean hydrogen, which no engineer expected to coat its own walls in battery grade graphite worth as much as the fuel itself

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 6

Beneath San Francisco Bay underwater kites tracing figure eight paths through tidal currents are

San Francisco Bay tidal kites generate electricity by moving faster than surrounding currents

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 5

Cape Station enhanced geothermal systems wellhead surface piping in Utah desert, drilled 10 000

Drilled 10,000 feet down and 7,500 feet sideways into Utah granite, a 33-megawatt geothermal block synchronized to the grid for the first time anywhere in the world

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 5

NDT

NDT Global commercially launches QUADRA™ UHR inline inspection system at IPCE 2026 in Calgary

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 4

Nel $7 million submarine electrolyzer

Nel adds another $7 million in submarine electrolyzer orders spanning U.S., U.K. and French programs, widening its footprint across allied naval fleets

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 8

Nel $12 million Collins Aerospace order

Nel lands a $12 million Collins Aerospace order to build electrolyzer stacks for U.S. Navy submarines, taking hydrogen technology beneath the waves

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 8

Jacobs German steelmaking project

Jacobs extends its role on a German steelmaking project designed to run on hydrogen, keeping the engineering firm at the center of the plant’s low-carbon overhaul

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 5

Data center

Data centers adopting 800 VDC power architecture as AI workloads drive demand for higher-efficiency, fuel-cell-compatible infrastructure

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 4

Plug 1 MW electrolyzer New Zealand

Plug sends a 1 MW electrolyzer to New Zealand, where it will help build out hydrogen fueling for heavy-duty trucks

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 3

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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

Latest News

1

Oil and gas industry adopts synthetic ropes, autonomous hooks, and acoustic positioning to advance deepwater subsea lifting operations

Oct 8

2

Built on 741 acres of Caspian-edge scrubland, the 100 MW Gobustan solar farm switched on last month as the first auction-won plant in one of the world’s most oil-dependent nations

Oct 8

3

Portugal’s WindFloat Atlantic became a no-fishing refuge where octopus and fish stayed more abundant after eight years

Oct 8

4

A blade transport convoy tilting a 279-foot rotor through a Black Forest S-curve lost hydraulic pressure, and the falling blade crushed both vehicles under 27 metric tons

Oct 8

5

Otters return to Singapore reservoir shared with 122,000-panel floating solar farm as scientists expand wildlife monitoring

Oct 8

6

Nel adds another $7 million in submarine electrolyzer orders spanning U.S., U.K. and French programs, widening its footprint across allied naval fleets

Oct 8

7

Oil refineries adopt smart sensor systems on cranes to automate collision avoidance and safety compliance

Oct 8

8

Seated near Bologna with 155 metric tons of molten lead and no uranium inside, a full-scale reactor vessel began generating real electricity using electric heaters in place of a fission core

Oct 8

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Daniel GarciaChief Editor Hugo RojasTech Editor & Advisor Kelly LippkeStaff Writer Prince SibandaStaff Writer Anke MareenStaff Writer

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