Science and Technology:
¶ “Donut Lab Survives 100º C Test. Is That Good Enough?” • Donut Lab has released new testing data for its breakthrough solid-state battery that claims to show it worked admirably at temperatures of 80º C and 100º C, performing better at higher temperatures than it does at room temperature. And yet the controversy continues. [CleanTechnica]
Donut Lab solid state battery (Donut Lab image)
World:
¶ “Iran War Revives Specter Of Energy Crisis In Europe, Fueling Economic Anxiety” • US President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran, pursue regime change and reshape the balance of power in the Middle East revived a formidable ghost that the EU thought it had managed to banish for good: energy crisis. Gas prices are soaring already. [Euronews]
¶ “Trump Tracker: We’re Keeping Count Of Every Climate Attack The POTUS Unleashes In 2026” • One sure thing: 2026 will go down in history as the year Donald Trump unravelled decades of climate progress. But climate change and its crushing effects do not stop at country borders. What one nation does impacts us all. [Euronews]
Donald Trump (The White House, public domain)
¶ “Coastal Sea Levels May Be Higher Than Previously Thought, Study Says” • Coastal sea-level around the world may be higher than scientists previously thought, new research shows. Past research may even have underestimated coastal sea level heights around the world by an average of 0.3 meters, or about 1 foot, a study published in Nature found. [ABC News]
¶ “School Of The Nations Acquires Electric School Buses From BasiGo, Making It The First School In Kenya To Transition To E-Mobility” • School of the Nations is the first school in Kenya to acquire electric school buses. The electric school buses are provided by BasiGo, the pioneer startup introducting electric buses across East Africa. [CleanTechnica]
School bus (BasiGo image)
¶ “New Electric Boat To Banish Emissions From Offshore Wind Sites” • The offshore wind industry has a fossil fuel problem. The kilowatts generated by offshore turbines are clean enough, but the workboats needed to build them usually run on marine fossil fuel. That is beginning to change, as the electrification trend hits the shipbuilding industry. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Fengmiao 1 Foundation Campaign Underway” • Pin pile installation has begun at Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners’ 495-MW Fengmiao 1 offshore wind project off Taiwan. The array’s 99 pin piles were made in Taiwan, and are being installed by CDWE vessel Green Jade. Altogether, the array will have 33 Vestas 15.0-MW turbines. [reNews]
Green Jade vessel (CIP image)
¶ “China’s Solar Power Projects In Tibet Seen As Grey Zone Warfare Installations” • Beyond being just clean energy sources, China’s sprawling solar farms in Tibet might also be important military strategic assets, going by their tell-tale locations across India’s border, according to a moneycontrol.com opinion piece posted on March 4. [Tibetan Review]
¶ “EU Unveils Industrial Accelerator Act For Clean Tech” • The European Commission has published its Industrial Accelerator Act to strengthen Europe’s economic competitiveness and boost clean tech manufacturing capacity. The move comes amid a surge of more than 40% in natural gas prices since the start of the war in the Middle East. [reNews]
Wind farm (Wind Europe image)
¶ “A Swarm Of Brainless Creatures Shut Down A Nuclear Power Plant By Liquefying'” • Jellyfish are remarkable creatures. They are twice as old as dinosaurs; they don’t have brains, lungs, or a heart; and they’ve nearly cracked the secret to immortality. But there’s another honor they can put into their biological resumé: they’re the scourge of nuclear reactors. [AOL.com]
US:
¶ “How The Iran War Could Impact The US Economy” • The overall economic impact of the war will likely depend on the duration and intensity of the fighting, economists told ABC News. A prolonged war threatens to raise an array of consumer prices and shrink economic growth, but if it is short-lived, the lasting damage could be small. [ABC News]
Fearless Girl vs Bull (Daniel Lloyd Blunk-Fernández, Unsplash)
¶ “Puget Sound Energy Is Paying Its Customers To Get Battery Systems” • Energy storage has been steadily expanding, with the growth largely due to battery prices dropping as much as a 75%. Puget Sound Energy is paying its customers to get their own batteries. When there are enough of them on the grid, they can be used as a virtual power plant. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Zelestra Starts Construction Of Two Texas Solar Projects” • Zelestra has started construction of the 253-MW (DC) Echols Grove and 188-MW (DC) Cedar Range solar projects in Texas. The projects, located in Lamar County and Hopkins County, were enabled through long-term power purchase agreements with Meta, according to Zelestra. [reNews]
Zelestra solar plant (Zelestra image)
¶ “Oahu’s Energy System, Stripping Away Aviation, Shipping, And Military Demand” • Energy discussions about Hawaii often begin with the aviation fuel, maritime bunkering, and military logistics. When those numbers are on the chart, the scale of the challenge appears enormous and the system looks harder to change than it actually is. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Backed By Bill Gates, Nuclear Start-Up Terrapower Just Got Cleared To Start Building Its First Power Plant” • TerraPower, a nuclear power start-up backed by Bill Gates, received the federal green light to start building a power plant in Wyoming. The approval paves the way for the first new commercial nuclear reactor in the US in nearly a decade. [AOL.com]
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