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An artist rendering of the advanced nuclear power reactor demonstration project that Bill Gates’ nuclear innovation company, TerraPower, plans to build in the frontier-era coal town, Kemmerer, Wyoming. Rendering courtesy TerraPower TerraPower‘s advanced reactor demonstration will face delays of at least two years because its only source of fuel was Russia, and the Ukraine war
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We’re buying 150 shares of Halliburton (HAL) at roughly $35.73 each. Following Friday’s trade, Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust will own 2,375 shares of HAL, increasing its weighting in the portfolio to about 3.04% from about 2.85%. Markets are once again in selloff mode Friday, dropping for the third straight session, as investors continue to worry
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (2nd L) is led away handcuffed by officers of the Royal Bahamas Police Force in Nassau, Bahamas on December 13, 2022.  Mario Duncanson | AFP | Getty Images Days before FTX’s bankruptcy filing last month, co-CEO Ryan Salame told Bahamian authorities that founder Sam Bankman-Fried may have committed fraud by sending
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The nuclear fusion breakthrough heralded on Tuesday was a historic event, culminating decades of research. At the same time, fusion power will not be contributing electricity to any power grid for at least a decade, according to most industry watchers. To get there, there will have to be many more technical breakthroughs beyond what was
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On Tuesday, the head of the Department of Energy and other federal scientific leaders announced that a fusion reaction run at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California achieved net energy, meaning the reaction generated more energy than was put in to initiate the reaction. It is the first time humankind has achieved this landmark.
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As a bullet train speeds by in the background, a liquid hydrogen tank towers over solar panels and hydrogen fuel cells at Panasonic’s Kusatsu plant in Japan. Combined with a Tesla Megapack storage battery, the hydrogen and solar can deliver enough electricity to power the site’s Ene-Farm fuel cell factory. Tim Hornyak As bullet trains
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Heat pumps are becoming more popular for residential housing with energy prices increasing and the need to reduce use of fossil fuel heating systems. Andrew Aitchison | In Pictures | Getty Images Thinking about a home heat pump? New and expanded government incentives, coupled with sharply rising utility costs, make it more compelling. Especially when
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Cargo ships and vessels transit the Bosphorus Strait, a body of water connecting the Black Sea to the Marmara and Mediterranean Seas through Istanbul, Turkey. Above, the Russia-flagged vessel Volga River Taganrog oil tanker passes south through the Bosphorus Straits in October 2022. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Tankers full of Kazakh oil are
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