Fossil fuels vs renewable energy: the definitive 2026 comparison
Wind and solar are now cheaper to build than new fossil plants, yet the investment story has moved to storage, grids and stranded-asset risk.
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The Microbes Growing Carbon-Negative Cement
Biology is replacing the cement kiln. Prometheus Materials ProZERO uses microalgae to grow the binding mineral, and it is already pouring at commercial scale.
Microbial power-to-X: the bugs turning surplus electricity into methane
Biology is becoming a storage medium. Microbes and archaea convert surplus renewable electricity and captured CO2 into drop-in e-methane and carbon-negative chemicals. The anchor deal is real; the bottleneck is the balance sheet.
The Long-Duration Storage Playbook: Which Battery Wins Above Eight Hours
Grid batteries crossed 100 GW of annual additions while venture money fled long-duration storage. Inside the technology ladder, the AI data center deals rewriting demand, and the financing gap that decides which chemistry gets built.
From lab to pilot: Carb Enzero's enzyme carbon capture
A South Dakota startup is betting the carbon-capture prize is the enzyme, not the plant, as it moves from lab to a 2026 field pilot.
Chevron Built a Carbon Machine, Then Walked Away
Chevron spent three years designing a federally funded machine to pull carbon from the California sky, then walked away in silence for eleven months.
Westinghouse’s fleet gamble: 91 reactors waiting on a delivery chain
Westinghouse has 91 AP1000 units in its order pipeline and a new engineering partner to build them. The Amentum deal, $17.5B in DOE loans and a planned IPO turn nuclear from a licensing problem into a delivery problem.
The Parked EV Fleet: A Grid Storage Asset the Grid Hasn't Turned On
Vehicle-to-grid left the pilot stage in 2026: GM activated bidirectional charging and E3's study for GM Energy values V2G integration at $7 billion by 2030. Nissan, Enel and Nuvve run the first fully commercial V2G hub in Denmark, and AI-managed aggregation is where the margin forms.