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Electricity Prices Are Soaring. Six Stocks to Fix the Problem.  Barron’s This Summer’s Stunning Electric Bill  The New York Times Rising Electric Rates Tied to Distribution Spending, Disasters and Some Clean Energy Programs, Study Says  Inside Climate News Increasing Power Prices Are Being Wrongly Blamed on the Trump Administration  The Institute for Energy Research Energy bills are on the rise. Here’s why:  WSOC TV Source …

The headlong rush to build huge new datacenters, in order to support the growth of AI, is raising a number of concerns in the US – around the impact upon the climate crisis, water use and electricity bills. It’s also set to reshape American politics in potentially unusual ways. Companies such as Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Amazon and Meta are pouring …

People were struggling to believe it when a Tesla owner revealed how much he’d paid in charging costs – and he’s explained how he pulled it off. It currently costs around £1.35 per litre for petrol and £1.43 per litre for diesel to fill up. But those with an electric vehicle simply can’t relate. Tesla owners will revel in not …

A team of physicists at the University of Warsaw has built the world’s first all-optical radio receiver powered entirely by laser light. The device, developed by researchers from the Faculty of Physics and the Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies, uses Rydberg atoms to detect and decode radio waves without relying on metal antennas or electrical circuits. Their findings mark a …

Lindsey Martin’s electricity bill reached $314 in July, the highest bill she had received this year until that point, she said on TikTok. In the video’s more than 4,000 comments, many users reported similar power-bill spikes. Martin’s bill jumped even higher in August to $372, a notable leap from around $150 two to three years ago. “I thought that was …

Lasers are not only for cutting metal or scanning groceries. They can also carry usable electricity across open air without a single wire. A U.S. team sent electrical power as laser light across about 5.3 miles and turned it back into electricity at the far end. They described 800 watts delivered during a 30 second burst, along with …

AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants  The Wall Street Journal As a baseload bubble brews, efficient flexible tech is being undervalued  Axios Why big tech’s nuclear plans could blow up  BBC Small reactors, big problems: the nuclear mirage behind AI’s energy hype  Medium AI energy demand could soon ‘become a crisis,’ former Biden energy envoy warns  Yahoo Source link

Wind turbines stand next to the Neurath coal-fired power plant on April 15, 2024, in Ingendorf, Germany. Andreas Rentz/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andreas Rentz/Getty Images For the first time, renewable energy has overtaken coal as the primary source of electricity around the world, a new report says, indicating a shift in the global reliance on environmentally harmful fossil …

Justin RowlattClimate Editor AFP via Getty Images Renewable energy overtook coal as the world’s leading source of electricity in the first half of this year – a historic first, according to new data from the global energy think tank Ember. Electricity demand is growing around the world but the growth in solar and wind was so strong it met 100% …

HOLLY RIDGE, La. (AP) — In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world’s largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of summer. While the colossal project is impossible to miss in …