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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

Eight stories of steel, pipe and vessel rise inside a facility in the Virginia hills, running on ordinary electricity, not uranium. Then the money ran out. The whole…

By Hugo Rojas · October 1, 2026

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

BASF

BASF confirms exploratory takeover talks with RAG-Stiftung and Evonik Industries

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 1

Coast Guard fireboat battles platform decommissioning fire off Carpinteria in the Santa Barbara Channel

Built in the early eighties to pull gas from the Santa Barbara Channel, a 45-year-old platform off Carpinteria caught fire during decommissioning when a gas leak ignited and sent all 26 workers into the water

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 1

Technip

Technip Energies and SABIC sign licensing agreement to expand global LDPE technology deployment

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 30

Diesel

Wood Mackenzie warns US diesel export ban would raise gasoline prices and strain global fuel markets

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 30

Bank, gas refinery

U.S. Export-Import Bank offers $6 billion in financing for Argentina’s $51 billion LNG project led by YPF, Eni, and XRG

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 30

A 1970s-era Southern North Sea gas platform with a small wind turbine on its upper deck, scrapyard five years

Condemned to the scrapyard five years ago, a 1970s era Southern North Sea gas platform restarted this spring and runs its own turbines on wind power

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 30

Solar

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

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 1

New England 102.4 MW new solar

New England states have picked 102.4 MW of new solar capacity, adding another wave of projects to the region’s clean-power pipeline

By Prince Sibanda · Oct 1

A startup swapped out water for a liquid concrete twice as dense and brought a century old power storage trick to gentle

Dense-fluid pumped storage enables eight-hour energy storage on gentle hills and urban fringes

By Daniel Garcia · Oct 1

Data centers

Data centers adopt 800 VDC power architecture, driving demand for fuel cell and ultracapacitor solutions

By Kelly Lippke · Oct 1

Gobi Desert solar farm panel rows extending across arid cracked earth under a hazy sky, 43 square kilometers

At 43 square kilometers of Gobi Desert solar panels, researchers found the arrays built to generate electricity cut springtime dust reaching northern China’s cities by nearly 14 percent

By Hugo Rojas · Oct 1

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

thee floating offshore wind turbines

WindFloat Atlantic surveys recorded 270 species, with some more abundant inside no-fishing zone

By Anke Maree · Oct 1

Denmark giant offshore wind turbines

Denmark’s Thor wind farm installs turbine using lower-carbon steel and recyclable blades

By Anke Maree · Sep 30

Installation vessel lifting first turbine tower at Denmark's largest offshore wind farm, carrying three turbine

Carrying three turbine sets per voyage, 14 miles off Jutland’s coast, a vessel lifted the first tower of Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm into North Sea water depths of up to 105 feet

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 30

Seals around a wind farm

Unusual seal behavior occurred in 15 of 216 elevated pile-driving noise encounters

By Kelly Lippke · Sep 29

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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

Texas reactor criticality test building on flat Lockhart rangeland, 1 megawatt class

A 1 megawatt class research reactor on 30 acres of Texas rangeland reached first criticality in under a year, which engineers say is the fastest privately sited reactor startup on American soil in decades

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 29

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

A startup lowered a drill to the bottom of the Pacific tapped a volcano s heat to make electricity and now wants to

Startup tests seafloor geothermal power for diesel-dependent island energy systems

By Daniel Garcia · Sep 30

Diamond anvil cell used to set ambient pressure superconductivity record in Texas lab, 30 000 times

A ceramic squeezed to 30,000 times normal air pressure in a Texas lab held its new state at 151 Kelvin once released, beating a record that had stood for three decades and moving grid-scale superconductivity closer to ordinary conditions

By Hugo Rojas · Sep 30

PPL

PPL Electric Utilities receives up to $71.5 million in DOE funding to upgrade 29.3 miles of Pennsylvania transmission infrastructure

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

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

Oct 1

2

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

Oct 1

3

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

Oct 1

4

WindFloat Atlantic surveys recorded 270 species, with some more abundant inside no-fishing zone

Oct 1

5

New England states have picked 102.4 MW of new solar capacity, adding another wave of projects to the region’s clean-power pipeline

Oct 1

6

BASF confirms exploratory takeover talks with RAG-Stiftung and Evonik Industries

Oct 1

7

Built in the early eighties to pull gas from the Santa Barbara Channel, a 45-year-old platform off Carpinteria caught fire during decommissioning when a gas leak ignited and sent all 26 workers into the water

Oct 1

8

Dense-fluid pumped storage enables eight-hour energy storage on gentle hills and urban fringes

Oct 1

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Hugo RojasTech Editor & Advisor

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