Amazon to fund 12 small nuclear reactors at former Indiana coal plant

Amazon and X-energy have inked another deal to deploy nuclear power to the grid. This one will generate nearly 1 gigawatt of electricity.

Porsche’s electric Macan Turbo is an automotive existential crisis

Maybe it was the grey color, the slightly bulbous roofline, or the vaguely SUV-like proportions of the electric Porsche Macan, but as I shuttled kids and groceries around city and suburban streets, I never once noticed a longing stare from other driver…

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Ambrosia Energy will build a 10 GWh factory in Texas to make batteries for off-grid data centers

Startup Ambrosia Energy will build a massive factory to crank out batteries to augment solar panels, creating a round-the-clock clean power plant.

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Helix Carbon says it can make iron cheaper by recycling blast furnace pollution

The steel industry is a big polluter, but Helix Carbon can upcycle pollution from blast furnaces to drive down emissions and improve margins.

Cambridge Heavy Industries has been quietly building a desktop fusion device

Fusion power startup Cambridge Heavy Industries is building a small, laser-powered fusion device to fuel the coming wave of fusion power plants.

MIT startup says it can turn diesel trucks into cheaper hydrogen haulers — see it at Disrupt

Diesel is expensive and polluting, and LNK Energies says it has come up with a way to replace it with hydrogen, all while undercutting diesel on cost.

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