Archive for the 'Energy' Category
IRAN PARLIAMENT: STRAIT OF HORMUZ SHOULD BE CLOSED
June 22nd, 2025Update: U-Turning Oil Supertankers Cross Hormuz After Avoiding It Via: Bloomberg: Two supertankers, each capable of hauling about 2 million barrels of crude, headed through the Hormuz shipping strait at the mouth of the Persian gulf, having performed U-turns in the past 24 hours. — ?? Major General Kowsari, member of the National Security Commission […]
DARPA Program Sets Distance Record for Power Beaming
June 15th, 2025The terminator robots will never run out of power. Via: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: In a series of recent tests in New Mexico, the Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program achieved several new records for transmitting power over distance. The team recorded more than 800 watts of power delivered during a 30-second transmission […]
Israel Escalates To Attacking Iranian Energy Targets After Ballistic Missiles Hit Tel Aviv
June 15th, 2025Via: The War Zone: Israel has launched a new phase of Operation Rising Lion. The campaign is designed to destroy Iran’s nuclear capability and long-range weapons capacity, but now it has expanded its scope to striking at Iran’s energy infrastructure. The strikes come after a warning from Israeli officials that they would do so if […]
Oil Soars Over 9% After Israel Attacks Iran
June 12th, 2025Via: RTE: Oil prices surged more than 9% today, hitting their highest in almost five months after Israel struck Iran, dramatically escalating tensions in the Middle East and raising worries about disrupted oil supplies.
AI Datacenter in Texas Will Have Its Own 1.2GW Gas Power Plant
June 5th, 2025Data Center Executives Pivot Toward Onsite Power: In November, data center leaders said they expected approximately 30% of all data center sites to use some onsite power as a primary energy source supplemental to the grid by 2030, 2.3 times more than just seven months earlier. The report noted there were more data center announcements […]
The Agenda: Their Vision, Your Future
June 4th, 2025Via: Oracle Films:
Meta Signs Nuclear Power Deal With Constellation To Fuel AI
June 3rd, 2025Via: ZeroHedge: Nuclear stocks moved higher in premarket trading after Meta Platforms signed a power contract with Constellation Energy for emissions-free nuclear energy from the Clinton Clean Energy Center in Clinton, Illinois. The parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp announced that it has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Constellation Energy […]
Trump Orders Dramatic Speedup of U.S. Nuclear Energy Development, “Win the AI Arms Race with China”
May 23rd, 2025So it goes… Via: EENews: President Donald Trump on Friday directed his administration to launch fast-track development of new nuclear power plants, ordering the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to complete licensing of new reactor designs within 18 months and the Department of Energy to speed up reactor testing and start building on federally owned land over […]
OpenAI’s Stargate AI Facility in Texas Will Consume 1 Gigawatt of Power
May 20th, 2025The scale is very wild… Via: Bloomberg: In other news, Musk wrote, “Colossus 2 will be the first Gigawatt AI training supercluster.” Colossus 2 will be the first Gigawatt AI training supercluster https://t.co/HPjEeqg3be — Kekius Maximus (@elonmusk) May 20, 2025 Related: AI’s Energy Footprint
“Two People Familiar with the Matter” Claim Undocumented Cellular Radios Found in Chinese Solar Inverters, Batteries
May 15th, 2025While this wouldn’t surprise me in the least, the article is very thin on details. It doesn’t include any evidence at all to support the claims. Hopefully, this will get security researchers looking into the matter and publicly outing the manufacturers and models of the offending products. Via: Reuters: U.S. energy officials are reassessing the […]
