Billionaire Gautam Adani got rich off coal. Now his company is building a green energy plant the size of Chicago.

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Adani Green Energy Limited's renewable power plant in Gujarat state of India.

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A Bill Gates company is about to start building a nuclear power plant in Wyoming

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A rendering of TerraPower's nuclear power plant design.

TerraPower

A devastating fried chicken shop explosion in China has killed 7 people and injured 27 others, the authorities say

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Firefighters work the scene of an explosion in Yanjiao, Sanhe city in northern China's Hebei province on Wednesday, March 13, 2024.
Firefighters work the scene of an explosion in Yanjiao, Sanhe city in northern China's Hebei province on Wednesday, March 13, 2024.

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America has descended into a new Red Scare

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Three farm water pump windmills. One of the windmills resembles a Communist hammer and sickle symbol.
The backlash in Green Charter represents something seldom seen since the Red Scare: a quasi-militant, homegrown resistance to the perceived threat of communism at home.

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ChatGPT uses 17,000 times the amount of electricity than the average US household does daily: report

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ChatGPT is using up a lot more electricity than the average US household.

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Russia played a card that nearly doubled its energy revenues in February

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attending the plenary session of the Valdai Discussion Club forum in Sochi, Russia, in October.

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Researchers just discovered a massive 'jacuzzi bubbling with almost pure hydrogen' — a lucrative source of clean energy

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Bulqizë chromite mine
The Bulqizë chromite mine just 25 miles east of Albania's capital Tirana contains a massive reservoir of hydrogen.

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A methane well that leaked for 6 months has released a year's worth of emissions for 791,000 cars: report

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Methane well pumpjacks.
Methane well pumpjacks. A methane well leak occurred over 6 months in Kazakhstan in 2023.

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It might be the year to upgrade your home's heating and cooling system and get a big discount

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An electric heat home installed on the side of a brick house.
Electric heat pumps are energy efficient and don't burn fossil fuels.

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Ukraine appears to be attacking Russia's oil-and-gas industry with small, cheap drones that can bypass its air defenses

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Firefighters extinguish oil tanks at a storage facility that local authorities say caught fire after the military brought down a Ukrainian drone, in the town of Klintsy in the Bryansk Region, Russia January 19, 2024.
Firefighters extinguish oil tanks at a storage facility in the Bryansk Region in Russia on January 19, 2024.

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