NEVADA - Buried beneath an ancient volcanic crater on the Nevada Oregon border sits an enormous deposit of lithium rich clay. Scientists now think this quiet landscape may hold enough lithium to influence the global battery market for decades. A new study argues that McDermitt caldera may host about 20 to 40 million metric tons of lithium,
NEW YORK - A new analysis from TechGaged Research reveals that combustion engines have officially become a minority in the European Union, marking a decisive and historic shift in the region’s automotive landscape. According to TechGaged’s research, petrol and diesel models accounted for just 36.6% of all new vehicles registered across the EU this year,
NEW YORK - Scientists think they know when a mass extinction event will hit Earth. Living creatures will likely face a 'triple whammy' of extinction events that will make the Earth inhospitable to life, a Nature Geoscience study conducted using a supercomputer has found. But thankfully, despite the habitat-endangering threat posed through climate change caused by the
NEW YORK - The discovery that oceans will power the world is rather interesting. Thus far, humans have always relied on the ocean for food, water, and trade. Now humankind will look towards the ocean as a new underwater dragon is said to produce clean and constant power. 1.2 MW of power will be delivered
CALIFORNIA - A 'white gold' mine containing $540 billion in treasures has been discovered at the bottom of a giant lake in Southern California. The Salton Sea, which is the largest lake in the US state was being studied by scientists as part of research funded by the Department of Energy. The study aimed to
DETROIT - Researchers studying whether food crops and a solar array could share the same land were shocked to discover a mutually beneficial relationship between the plants and panels, The experiment took place in Houston, Alaska, about one hour outside Anchorage. Houston is home to Alaska's largest solar array. Using funding from the Department of
DETROIT - The tides are changing, and a Qatari investment firm has plenty to do with it. Al Masdar Investment, chaired by Sheikh Saud bin Abdulaziz Al-Thani, has acquired a 63 percent majority stake in Tyde, the German builder of all-electric hydrofoiling boats best known for The Icon and The Open created with BMW. The
LANSING - The Michigan Public Service Commission will hold a virtual public hearing next month to take input from residents about DTE Electric Co.’s application for approval of contracts with a data center customer in Washtenaw County. The public hearing will be held virtually through Microsoft Teams on Wednesday, Dec. 3, from 6:30 p.m. to
DETROIT - DTE Energy submitted a request with state regulators Thursday, Nov. 13 to hike rates by a net total of about $163 million for its 1.3 million customers, according to the utility’s filings. If granted in full, the increase would boost rates about 8 percent for residential customers. That means a customer with average usage
DETROIT - Solar panels could soon be obsolete since researchers at the University of Basque County have mentioned a new material that absorbs 99.5% of light at 700°C. This unbelievable revelation focuses on ultrablack copper cobaltate nanoneedles, which go beyond the performance of conventional carbon nanotubes. A wonderful aspect of these copper cobaltate nanoneedles is that they
