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JCB Targeting New Speed Record Using Its Hydrogen Engines
JCB Hydromax on the Bonneville Salt Flats. JCB Photo. JCB is planning another attempt to break a world speed record, this time with a hydrogen-powered car. The 32-foot-long JCB Hydromax is being prepared to travel over 350 mph, equipped with the British...
Meet Helion’s New Fusion Testbed- Tiny Merge
Helion Energy is building Tiny Merge, a fusion device that is one-eighth the size of its seventh generation prototype and will serve as a testbed for faster iterations of its designs. (Helion Photo) Helion makes big bet on ‘Tiny Merge’ fusion testbed to meet...
WA Dept of Commerce Awards $60 Million for Clean Energy Projects
The Washington State Department of Commerce recently awarded $60.4 million in investments for nearly 100 clean energy projects across the state. The investments support 96 awards for solar, battery storage, grid upgrades, and predevelopment planning in 33 of...
Ford Energy: The Launch of Battery Energy Storage
Ford Energy photo. Ford Energy is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. For the past year, Ford has operated to build a foundation for this business; planning, securing supply chains, readying manufacturing sites, and aligning their technology with the...
Washington’s Electric Grid Tradeoffs: More Spill, Less Hydropower
Oregon’s Bonneville Dam is the last of 14 dams on the Columbia River before it empties into the Pacific Ocean. (Courtesy of the Bonneville Power Administration) In litigation over Columbia Basin salmon, federal agencies began spilling more water last month to comply...
NLR Announces New Partnership with Colorado School of Mines and University of Utah
Earlier this week, the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with the Colorado School of Mines and the University of Utah that will help strengthen America’s energy and material supply chains through critical minerals...
Zap Energy Integrating its Nuclear Future
Zap Energy’s FuZE-Q fusion device. (Zap Photo) Last week, Zap Energy announced their new, integrated nuclear future as the first company to simultaneously pursue two tracks for nuclear power: fusion, an unproven but promising technology that smashes light atoms...
Volvo Construction Equipment’s Oldest and Newest Articulated Dump Trucks
Volvo's Newest Articulated Hauler, Volvo Construction Equipment photo. Volvo's First Articulated Hauler, Gravel Charlie, Equipment World photo. On display at the 2022 Volvo Days event in Sweden was the first articulated dump truck ever created (pictured right). Dubbed...
Department of Energy to Resume Negotiations for $430 Million in Hydropower Funding
Grand Coulee Dam, Washington. Courtesy of Bureau of Reclamation. The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office (H2O) announced earlier this week that it will soon resume negotiations to issue nearly $430 million in payments to American...
Kairos Power Breaks Ground on New Demonstration Reactor
Kairos Power photo Earlier this month, Kairos Power broke ground on the company's second demonstration plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This will be the company's first commercial-scale reactor and the first-ever power-producing Gen IV reactor to receive a construction...