Aalo Atomics just proved factory-built nuclear can go critical
Four reactors went critical before the July 4 deadline. Aalo Atomics was the fourth — and the one built explicitly for the AI data center business.
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America Battery Gigafactory: Forge Nano $300 Million Reshoring Bet
The 3 GWh Morrisville campus, the $100M DOE grant, and Samsung SDI as investor and offtaker: what America first battery gigafactory built around a chip-coating company tells investors about reshoring.
Hydrogen airships are taking over power-line inspection. The math says why.
A Paris startup is retiring the helicopter from grid and pipeline inspection. Hydrogen-in-the-envelope gives 350 km of zero-emission range, and Europe’s biggest utilities are already flying it.
Grid batteries set a record in 2025, then cut their own revenue
US grid storage hit a record 57.6 GWh in 2025 while ERCOT battery revenue fell 40% year on year. A radar map of what is growing, falling and new in grid battery economics and the market-design reforms that decide who profits.
Biodiesel Waste Is Becoming Jet Fuel: The 75,000-Liter Proof
Cemvita proved its FermOil process at 75,000 liters, turning biodiesel waste into a drop-in renewable oil for sustainable aviation fuel. The scale-up path, not the headline volume, is the signal.
From 8,000 Experiments to 28: AI Rewrites the Green Ammonia Catalyst
AI cut an 8,000-experiment green ammonia catalyst screen to 28 runs, and energy foundation models now run the first commercial plant. The screening bottleneck is solved.
The $94 Million Down Payment on America's Nuclear Factory Floor
Washington put $94 million behind small modular reactors in May 2026. The money targets the supply chain, not a single reactor, and the real driver is AI data-center power demand.
Virus-built batteries: can biology out-build chemistry?
MIT's virus-templated battery electrodes promise room-temperature, defect-free materials, yet never left the coin cell. Can biology out-build the furnace?