World:
¶ “From Tiny Houses To Skis: Vattenfall Is Finding Creative Uses For Retired Wind Turbines” • In time, every wind turbine built will have to come down. Dealing with waste is important. Blades, nose cones, and nacelles are banned from landfills, but Vattenfall is finding purposes for them. For example, a nacelle might be made into a tiny house. [Euronews]
¶ “Integrating Starlink LEO Infrastructure With Zimbabwe’s Terrestrial Fiber Networks” • Starlink introduced commercial satellite service in Zimbabwe on two years ago. Now substantial regional subscriber adoption has created bandwidth throttling during peak hours, and other optimizations will be needed. They are being addressed. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Electric Tricycles Developed At Philippine University Ready For Production” • Cagayan State University has made its locally developed EV prototypes available to investors, representing a practical step forward in expanding domestic manufacturing and clean transportation in the Philippines. An electric tricycle is a good example. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Dense-Fluid Pumped Hydro Now Works” • RheEnergise built two reservoirs, installed pumps, pipes, and a generator, made hundreds of cubic meters of its proprietary high-density fluid, pumped that fluid uphill and ran it back through a turbine as a demonstrator for dense-fluid pumped hydro at Cornwood in Devon. Finally, we can see it work. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Solving Nuclear Energy’s Biggest Problem” • Nuclear power is growing in popularity once again. Several countries are looking to develop or expand nuclear energy capacity over the coming decades. However, one challenge remains – nuclear waste. The disposal of waste materials from nuclear energy operations has no perfect solution. [Yahoo]
¶ “Biogas Faces A Market Reality Check As Wind And Solar Dominate Renewables” • An analysis reveals two structural challenges constraining biogas expansion: its high and stagnant costs, and feedstock limitations as a competitor for agricultural land. But over the past decade, the cost of wind and solar energy has dropped by 70% to 90%. [EIN News]
US:
¶ “El Niño Brings Record Slow Atlantic Hurricane Season” • No Atlantic hurricanes have formed yet this year and none are likely to form for at least another week, even though this is normally the peak of the season, according to the National Hurricane Center. This year set a record as the longest a season has gone without its first hurricane. [ABC News]
¶ “Anthropic CEO Says AI industry Needs To Slow Down For Safety” • Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without it, he warned, AI could be capable within six to twelve months of taking over the entire internet, for example. [ABC News]
¶ “US District Court Finds JH Campbell Emergency Order Fake” • Consumers Energy, owner of the coal-burning JH Campbell plant, planned to replace it with methane and solar capacity and battery storage. This would reduce air pollution in the area along with the cost of electricity for customers. A fake emergency order stopped it. Until now. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Rush To Promote Unsupervised Tesla FSD Videos Raises More Questions” • Another day, and Elon Musk is engaged in another controversy. This time it’s Musk’s apparent desperation to push unsupervised Full Self Driving technology into the US and key markets elsewhere around the world before other automakers do. So what else is new? [CleanTechnica]
¶ “US Army Backs Nuclear Microreactors Small Enough To Ship Easily” • The US Army is funding nuclear reactors that can be moved by road, sea, or air. The push suggests microreactors may be edging closer to practical use. If the project stays on track, at least one military base could get electricity from a microreactor by September 30, 2028. [Yahoo]
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