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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and Bill Nye talk science (and pipelines) with students

Canada’s highest-ranking science geek, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, shared a stage with Bill Nye the Science Guy at the University… Read More

TAE Technologies pushes plasma machine to a new high on the nuclear fusion frontier

TAE Technologies, the California-based fusion company backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, said its latest and greatest plasma generator has… Read More

LaserMotive makes a switch to PowerLight and focuses on beaming power over fiber

The company formerly known as LaserMotive is coming out of stealth mode with a new name — PowerLight Technologies — and a… Read More

$20 billion ITER fusion facility reaches halfway point for construction in France

The world’s biggest and most expensive nuclear fusion research project, known as ITER, says it’s halfway done with the construction… Read More

TAE fusion venture wins supercomputer time — and reports progress on test device

TAE Technologies, the venture formerly known as Tri Alpha Energy, says it’s been admitted into a U.S. Department of Energy… Read More

Cutting-edge Microsoft data center fuels a new vision for global energy efficiency

In an industrial Seattle warehouse with plywood walls and exposed pipes, a group of about 60 people gathered Wednesday to… Read More

Drift raises $7M to take on traditional utility companies with peer-to-peer energy marketplace

Drift has raised additional funding to take on traditional utility companies with its new energy marketplace platform. The Seattle startup… Read More

Bill Gates gives a boost to ARPA-E, the feds’ endangered energy research agency

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is putting in a plug for the federal government’s energy research agency, ARPA-E, just when it’s… Read More

Startup Spotlight: InPipe Energy harnesses electric power from water running through pipes

Gregg Semler has spent the past 17 years focused on innovations that can make civilization more sustainable, from energy and… Read More

With Paul Allen’s backing, Tri Alpha Energy revs up ‘Norman’ device for fusion research

Tri Alpha Energy, the fusion energy venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, says it has achieved first plasma in… Read More

Elon Musk touts Tesla’s plan to build the world’s biggest battery in just 100 days

One hundred megawatts. That’s how much electrical power the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery system will store when Tesla builds it… Read More

Lasermotive's David Bashford and Tom Nugent

LaserMotive raises $1.5 million to boost innovations in laser power transmission

LaserMotive, a stealthy pioneer in laser-based power transmission that’s based in Kent, Wash., has raised more than $1.5 million in… Read More

Bill Gates on Trump, the definition of success, his favorite sandwich, and other Reddit AMA highlights

Bill Gates is one of the most recognizable symbols of success in the modern world. So how does Bill Gates,… Read More

Greenpeace parody slams Netflix over dirty energy use with a little help from ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘House of Cards,’ other originals

In an appeal to binge-watchers everywhere, Greenpeace is using favorite Netflix characters to call out the streaming giant for its dependence… Read More

President Obama pleads the economic case for clean energy in scientific paper

In the closing days of his White House term, President Barack Obama argues that the push toward renewable energy is… Read More

Poop power: Vancouver, B.C., will test out biofuel made from sewage

Vancouver B.C. will soon use science from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., to create biofuels out of sewage… Read More

As cars get more fuel-efficient, Washington state to test ‘road usage charge’ as alternative to gas tax

OLYMPIA, Wash. — For years, experts have debated how more fuel-efficient cars will affect the multibillion-dollar revenue stream from Washington… Read More

Obama: Bill Gates-led $1B Breakthrough Energy fund is a ‘smart investment’ and good for planet

President Obama, or at least his Twitter account, weighed in overnight on the news that Bill Gates and more than… Read More

How President Trump will change science policy, starting with climate issues

Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the presidential election opens the way for a profound reversal in environmental policies, even as… Read More

EnergySavvy raises $14 million in funding, revamps services for utilities

EnergySavvy, a Seattle startup that helps utilities better relate to their customers, has released what it called its fifth generation of products,… Read More

Amazon is building a massive wind farm in western Texas — its largest yet

To satisfy the voracious energy appetite of Amazon Web Services’ cloud data centers and other parts of Amazon’s business, the… Read More

Elon Musk touts power-generating solar roofs as future SolarCity product

The bad news is that SolarCity, the power-generating company that has Elon Musk as its chairman, is losing money. The… Read More

Alexa, how much water am I using? Connected Buildings Challenge paves way for smarter, efficient energy use

Ever wish you could say: “Alexa, how much water am I using?” or “Siri, lower the house’s energy input?” That reality… Read More

Carbon-free cloud: Microsoft sets ambitious goals for renewable energy

REDMOND, Wash. – Microsoft is kicking up its targets for environmentally sustainable cloud computing by pledging that half of the electricity… Read More

Bill and Melinda Gates’ message to teens: Time and energy are superpowers — and they can help fight global poverty

For wealthy people, living in wealthy countries, privilege manifests itself in obvious ways. But it also exists in more subtle… Read More

Wendelstein 7-X fusion ‘pretzel’ fires up its first hydrogen plasma in Germany

Hydrogen plasma was produced for the first time today in Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X fusion device, which has been called the… Read More

EMC2 revives its quest for nuclear fusion

After languishing in limbo for most of the last year, EMC2 Fusion Development Corp. says it’s back in business with… Read More

‘Star Wars’ tech: Latest threat suggests the bad guys have perfected plasma physics

Spoiler Alert! This post doesn’t reveal any major plot twists, but it does explore a significant element of the new movie. Stop… Read More

Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other tech titans form the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to invest in zero-carbon energy technologies

Some of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful individuals are forming a new organization known as the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to… Read More

Inspired by ‘Back to the Future,’ this machine turns food waste into energy

Many people in the Northwest separate out their table scraps, wilted leaves and old fruit, carting them off eventually to… Read More