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For five years, Reactor 1 at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania has been mothballed, but the deal with Microsoft means the reactor…

In conventional high voltage transmission lines, some of the electrical energy is lost as heat.Limbov/Shutterstock Below is an excerpt from our climate newsletter, Fix the Planet.…

again The second WIRED & Octopus Energy Tech Summit, taking place in Berlin this October, will bring together Europe’s leading experts and visionaries in the green…

Freshwater is Water is becoming increasingly scarce in many countries, but not in Greenland. Greenland’s ice sheet contains about 6.5 percent of the world’s freshwater, and…

Hydrogen, produced by splitting water with renewable energy, is too expensive to be widely used, but a startup hopes to bring the cost down with a…

Solar power is growing extremely fast, but in absolute terms, the use of natural gas in electricity production continues to outpace renewables. That’s likely to change…

Solar power is growing extremely fast, but in absolute terms, the use of natural gas in electricity production continues to outpace renewables. That’s likely to change…

Mokadi Mokoena had been feeling uneasy all day. When he left his home outside Johannesburg, South Africa, to go to his job as a security guard,…

Mokadi Mokoena had been feeling uneasy all day. When he left his home outside Johannesburg, South Africa, to go to his job as a security guard,…

This story was originally Cast WIRED Italy Translated from Italian.In the quest to decarbonize the world, one element that has garnered a lot of attention is…