Author

Everett Sloane

Latest Articles by Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A rare May snowstorm just buried the Colorado Rockies under two feet of snow — winter storm warnings now stretch from Cheyenne to Colorado Springs

May 20, 2026

Energy Transition

A new iron-based catalyst just produced green hydrogen without any platinum — slashing the cost of the reaction every fuel-cell stack depends on

May 19, 2026

Energy & Climate

China’s BYD just overtook Tesla as the world’s largest battery energy storage deployer — capturing 13% of the global market this quarter

May 19, 2026

Power and Grids

North America’s grid watchdog just issued a Level 3 alert over data centers going offline without warning — the highest tier the system allows

May 19, 2026

Power and Grids

PJM just forecast a 6-gigawatt power shortage by 2027 as AI data centers eat through available generating capacity across 13 states

May 19, 2026

Nuclear

The Department of Energy just awarded $29 million to Jefferson Lab and partners to build spin-polarized fusion fuel that could nearly double reactor yield

May 19, 2026

Power and Grids

Commonwealth Fusion just filed the first-ever application to connect a commercial fusion plant to a U.S. grid — targeting the PJM Interconnection in the early 2030s

May 19, 2026

Extreme Weather

51% of the lower 48 states now sit in moderate drought or worse — affecting 155.7 million Americans before peak fire season has even started

May 19, 2026

Extreme Weather

AccuWeather now forecasts 65,000 to 80,000 wildfires will ignite across the U.S. this year — potentially burning up to 8 million acres

May 19, 2026

Extreme Weather

The 2026 eastern Pacific hurricane season just opened May 15 with warmer-than-normal waters and a building El Niño — heightening risk for Hawaii and Mexico

May 19, 2026

Extreme Weather

Snowmelt just ran 43 days early across California this spring — and 4 SNOTEL stations in Nevada already have zero snow on the ground

May 19, 2026

Extreme Weather

A cold front from the Great Lakes to the southern Plains spawns damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes from north Texas to western New York Tuesday

May 19, 2026

Extreme Weather

The Storm Prediction Center just issued a rare Level 4 of 5 tornado risk for Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa Monday — only about 14 days a year hit that tier

May 19, 2026

Power and Grids

The lead time for a high-power grid transformer just stretched from 30 months to 5 years — bottlenecking every new AI data center trying to connect

May 19, 2026

Power and Grids

PJM — the U.S. grid serving 65 million people — just warned it has ‘years, not decades’ to restructure as AI loads threaten the system

May 19, 2026

Energy Transition

An iron-based catalyst just produced clean hydrogen without a trace of platinum — cutting the cost of the reaction that powers every hydrogen fuel cell

May 19, 2026

« Prev 1 … 83 84 85 86 87 … 185 Next »