Several 🇪🇺EU countries repurpose their "retired" nuclear and conventional... power plant sites for battery storage projects by utilizing grid infrastructure. Turning a multi-billion-dollar baseload powerhouse into a battery rack just in order to reuse the transmission assets is literally this Simpsons scene.😄show more

California’s Burning Again: Moss Landing Power Plant Catches Fire—Battery... Buildings Blaze! A significant fire has erupted at in Monterey County, California, leading to evacuation orders and road closures. The blaze is concentrated in the battery storage area operated by Vistra Energy, with heavy black smoke visible from the facility.show more

Distributed compute is the future. Today Armada and WinDC... announced a partnership to deploy portable AI factories across Australia, directly at wind, solar, and battery sites. Turning underutilized renewable power into intelligence. - First unit has already arrived - Deploys in weeks, not years - Powered by the Armada Edge Platform Full story below:show more

Remixpoint’s activities align perfectly with the patent filed by... #JASMY in the energy field (a conversion device connected to main and secondary lines, coupled with a storage battery). This is precisely Remixpoint’s core business;the sale and installation of residential batteries, large scale storage projects, energy management systems, as well as supporting buildings in transitioning toward Zero Energy Building standards through the integration of renewable energy and storage solutions.show more

⚡️🚨 Another view from the massive strikes on southern... Lebanon Preliminary reports suggest that the targets are facilities related to reconstruction : asphalt plant, quarry, concrete plant, diesel storage tanks. This is the continuation of the strikes from a few days ago that destroyed 300 bulldozers and bobcats. Israel is turning southern Lebanon into a deadzone in order to depopulatr in preparation for future occupation and settlement.show more

Russia unveils newest Yasen-M class submarine The Yasen-M class... attack sub "Ulyanovsk" has left the shipyard and is scheduled for delivery to the Russian Navy by December 2027, the Russian Defense Ministry said. It carries Oniks, Kalibr, and eventually Zircon hypersonic missiles Torpedo tubes are positioned amidships — a first for Russian nuclear subs — to make room for a large sonar array A single-shaft steam turbine nuclear plant provides primary power, with diesel and battery backups The sub will undergo mooring, sea, and state trials before handover This delivery will add a highly capable, multi-role submarine to Russia's fleet, strengthening its undersea deterrent and strike capabilities.show more

Thread 🧵 1. First, I downloaded 3uTools and went... to Smart Flash. 2. Don’t forget to check “Retain User Data.” 3. Now click Flash. If you encounter any error like the one shown, just update your 3uTools. Note: Due to power outages in some countries, using a laptop with a good battery while plugged into a power source is recommended.show more

A HARDWARE MODDER BOLTED A BATTERY PACK ONTO A... $599 MAC MINI M4 AND TURNED A DESK SERVER INTO A BACKPACK AI RIG THAT RUNS FOR EIGHT HOURS WITHOUT A WALL OUTLET he posts a video of the mac mini with a slim battery module clamped to the side, USB-C plugged into the back. no power brick, no outlet, just the 10 to 30W draw of the M4 chip pulling from a 20,000mAh bank. a full work day on one charge. this is not a portable laptop trick. it is a desk-class AI server that fits in a sling bag the same $599 mac mini i recommended in last week's article as the silent default, now untethered. pair it with a mobile hotspot or a Starlink mini and you have a fully off-grid LLM stack that answers questions in a forest, on a plane, in a power outage. the model lives in the box, the battery powers the box, that is the whole stack this is not a gadget. it is the first time the words "AI server" and "fits in your bag" belong in the same sentenceshow more

Following The Amazon Blueprint For Building A Trillion Dollar... Tech Company Amazon was amongst the first wave of tech companies to hit a trillion-dollar valuation, alongside Apple and Microsoft. They achieved it by pioneering a novel and ruthlessly-efficient business model. On the front-end they united all key consumer markets with a one-stop-shop marketplace. On the back-end, they built the world’s largest fleet of cloud computing infrastructure to power their marketplace, turning these assets into a multi-billion dollar revenue generation vehicle in their own right via AWS. Our vision at PinLink is to adapt this model to the Web3 sector and create the Amazon of DePIN. Our front-end marketplace will be the first one-stop-shop for all DePIN asset categories, whilst the fractionalization model will give retail-level consumers access to DePIN revenue streams. Meanwhile, on the back-end, we’re aiming to build out the world’s largest fleet of protocol-owned DePIN assets, which we will sell fractional shares of on the marketplace. These assets will serve as the equivalent of Amazon’s AWS arm, powering revenue generation at an infrastructure level, whilst fees from our marketplace fund evermore asset purchases, creating an unrivaled revenue generation flywheel. This is how blue chip businesses are born.show more

This is a disappointing take from GetUp!… During COP28,... they posted a video condemning the pledge to triple nuclear energy quoting The Simpsons as evidence. In order to address climate change, organisations like Getup must stick to the science and put their focus back on fighting for climate action- not fighting clean energy solutions like nuclear energy.show more

Tesla’s new Megapack factory in Houston will be their... most capable yet, with an annual production capacity of 50 GWh—25% more than their other two Megapack factories. Once fully ramped, Tesla’s three Megafactories will produce a combined 130 GWh of battery energy storage a year, enough to power ~50 million homes. That's nearly 4.2x more battery energy storage than Tesla deployed in all of 2024. The Houston facility will be the first to manufacture the all-new Megapack 3 in late 2026. This product will partly source LFP cells from Tesla's brand new LFP manufacturing plant in Nevada (next to Giga Nevada). The Nevada facility will begin production in the coming months, making it the first time Tesla will produce and source LFP cells domestically — and from its own operations. Tesla Energy is just getting started🔋show more

Elon just clarified the plan for building the TERAFAB.... The Advanced Technology Fab built at Giga Texas will not be “the TERAFAB.” It will be a smaller fab where they will iterate on chip designs. The TERAFAB wouldn’t even fit on the Giga Texas campus. Several sites for the TERAFAB are under consideration, and it will need thousands of acres and over 10 GW of power at full scale. My opinion: To put this in perspective, Tesla would need 2,000-5,000 acres for the entire TERAFAB lot. This would equal ~87-200 million square feet of available land space for power and battery backup with Megapacks, with ~20-60 million square feet of available space for the actual building. Just for reference, backing up a facility like this with a ~5-15 minute battery backup would require 168 Megapacks and it would for sure need its own power production such as natural gas turbines or maybe even its own dedicated power plant. Here's Grok's representation of the Tesla TERAFAB!show more

Tesla opened the world’s first public Megacharger for Semi... trucks. Six stalls in Bloomington, California, delivering up to 1.2 megawatts each. That's freight-level charging for trucks that need to move loads, not sit around waiting. Tesla Semi trucks need places to charge fast, get back on the road, and keep freight moving without turning every route into a battery-planning exercise. This is how the Semi starts getting its own infrastructure. Tesla TeslaCharging / Writer: Annette, Designer: Jannéshow more

‼️🇺🇦💥Multiple explosions, gunfire, and fires: a massive attack on... Kryvyi Rih is underway ▪️The city's energy facilities have been under almost continuous attack by Russian strike drones for several hours. ▪️Authorities are urging residents to stockpile water and charge their devices in advance due to the threat of serious power outages. It is reported that the situation in the city's power grid remains extremely unstable and is expected to deteriorate rapidly. - RVvoenkorshow more

HE STRAPPED A BATTERY TO A $599 MAC MINI... AND TURNED A DESK COMPUTER INTO A 14-HOUR PORTABLE AI WORKSTATION 00:03 the battery slides onto the side of the mac mini and the whole setup stops behaving like a desk machine. now it can run from a backpack, power a screen, hold local files and keep working without asking for an outlet. that changes the use case completely. instead of renting another cloud box, one silent computer can handle research dumps, meeting notes, scraped pages, voice transcripts and small automation jobs from almost anywhere. with claude connected, it becomes a moving command center. 45-minute calls become summaries, 120 saved links become organized notes, and messy project folders get cleaned while the machine quietly keeps working in the background. the interesting number is not the battery size. it is the avoided rent. one portable local box can replace $25 storage, $39 automation, $20 transcription and another $30 vps bill if the workflow is built correctly. this is no longer just a desktop. it becomes a portable ai machine that keeps working long after you leave the desk. bookmark this before portable ai becomes the new normal.show more

😳 A Foreigner Shocked by the Huge Variety of... Products in Ukrainian Stores By the way, this is one of the reasons why some are afraid to accept Ukraine into the EU, because our products are of higher quality and lower price. Ukraine’s accession to the EU would mean that products in stores would have to become better in quality and cheaper in order to compete with Ukraine. For ordinary people this is good, but companies and farmers would lose part of their income. That is why some believe it is better not to accept Ukraine into the EU than to improve the quality of life and health of their own population.show more

China just turned a patch of open sea into... a 1 GW solar power plant that can electrify millions of homes As of early 2026, China has fully commissioned the world’s largest open-sea floating solar project off the coast of Dongying This 1 GW mega-farm sits on nearly 3,000 platforms and can power around 2.7 million homes China is turning its waterways into power plants. By blanketing lakes and coastal waters with millions of “floatovoltaic” panels, they’re easing the land crunch while boosting energy efficiency by up to 15% This is a blue energy revolutionshow more

🇵🇱🇺🇦🇭🇺 The EU just decided that Ukraine can bomb... European energy infrastructure and install we see an explosions in Hungary and Romania! 1) MOL in Százhalombatta (Hungary), this Hungarian plant receives Russian oil 2) Petrotel-Lukoil in Romania, a Romanian subsidiary of Russian Lukoil. Poland’s court just dismissed Germany’s extradition request in the case of NordStream bombing as legitimate self defense by Ukraine. Europe allows to attack European countries!show more

More Batteries vs. Submarines Now that the German TKMS... and the French Naval Group have massively adopted lithium-ion batteries, following the Japanese lead, this is consolidating as a major trend, just as I had predicted. The next stage will be solid-state batteries, and at that point, we'll essentially be discussing only speed and submerged endurance in comparison to nuclear submarines. Since solid-state batteries are lighter, they will allow for a greater number to be installed, freeing up space for more powerful propulsion systems. Naval Group has already sold a version of the Scorpène to Indonesia capable of remaining submerged for up to 80 days. That's with lithium-ion batteries. Imagine what this could exceed, more than double, with solid-state batteries. In practical terms, a more powerful engine combined with solid-state batteries in the proportions that Naval Group is now using in the Scorpène would provide three times the speed, meaning something like 10–15 knots at constant speed while maintaining around 50 days submerged. This would give a range of 40,000–50,000 km, requiring less than one hour on the surface for a fast recharge. For speeds above 25 knots, simply adding more batteries and a better engine would suffice, as the solid-state system has high power output. All this at 15–20% of the cost of a nuclear submarine. And if the choice is to power the batteries with a micro-reactor, it would cost 25–35% of a conventional nuclear one. Then someone will say: “But a nuclear sub can stay submerged for years.” That makes no difference at all, since even with around 60 days of endurance, the crew still needs to surface to resupply provisions. The big advantages remain: battery-powered subs are superior in silence, and speed can be addressed with larger battery packs.show more