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Bill Gates casts an enthusiastic vote for bill to accelerate nuclear energy research

If dollars were votes, newly reintroduced legislation aimed at boosting nuclear energy innovation and advanced reactors would be a winner,… Read More

Beyond cow farts: Bill Gates picks 5 innovations to reduce carbon emissions from agriculture

Bill Gates is “done with cow farts.” So the Microsoft co-founder proclaimed in the opening line of a new blog… Read More

What Bill Gates is thinking about as 2018 concludes

It’s almost hard to remember the Bill Gates of yesteryear — the brash, competitive, hard-charging business leader known to dismiss… Read More

Amazon employees flex shareholder muscle to push for climate change plan

More than a dozen Amazon employees are using their power as shareholders to pressure their employer to be more thoughtful… Read More

Canadian government invests $38M in General Fusion to boost energy research

The Canadian government says it’s investing $37.5 million (49.3 million Canadian dollars) in General Fusion, a British Columbia company that… Read More

Backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, Breakthrough Energy Ventures lists seven new investments

Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the $1 billion energy innovation fund spearheaded by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has revealed seven more companies… Read More

TAE rearranges its leadership and gets ready for next chapter in fusion quest backed by Paul Allen

TAE Technologies, the fusion energy venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and other heavy-hitters, is elevating Michl Binderbauer to… Read More

Northwest projects win a share of $20 million in federal grants for nuclear tech

Oregon-based NuScale Power is the big winner in today’s round of grants from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of… Read More

Backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, Breakthrough Energy Ventures places first bets on power storage

Eighteen months after its founding, the $1 billion Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund’s first investments have been revealed, and they both… Read More

NASA’s Kilopower project demonstrates a nuclear reactor that’s made for space

That’s one small step for nuclear reactors on the moon and Mars, and several giant leaps to go. Eventually, the… Read More

What’s holding back the Internet of Things? Power

[Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Larry Arnstein, a former Impinj business and marketing executive who is now an entrepreneur… Read More

MIT and Commonwealth startup add a new twist to the commercial fusion race

A new entrant in the race to commercialize fusion energy, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, aims to capitalize on superconductor technology from… Read More

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

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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

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