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Wearable solar-powered devices may soon be on the way
The sun is an inexhaustible source of clean energy, but much of that readily available energy we have yet to be able to harness. Imagine, for instance, if we could carry some ultrathin solar cells with us embedded in our
Baltic states’ plan to link up to the EU grid comes with risks
As European nations move closer towards economic and political union, so are their power supplies bound to keep getting interlinked more tightly. A case in point: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are working to hitch their power grid onto the EU's
A little nuclear power plant that could
A wee reactor with plenty more oomph. That’s what NuScale Power, a nuclear power company in the US, has achieved in what is touted as a technological breakthrough. The Oregin-based company’s light-water reactors measure only 22.5m in height and 4.4m
Bulgaria is set to revive its once-moribund nuclear project
During long years of communism, Eastern European countries burned coal to power their struggling economies as if there was no tomorrow. Coal was cheap and readily available. Yet it was also highly pollutive. The environmental legacies of such policies are
Is there a place for nuclear energy in Europe?
Despite the bad rep that nuclear power tends to get in the popular imagination and in Hollywood movies ...