Tag: power plants

Solar Flare Super Storm Could Put Middle East in Darkness

Could we survive a massive  blackout caused by a solar super storm? The sun, our most important source of natural...

Leap-second Bug Consumes Megawatts of Electricity

Was it the leap-second bug that pushed America's power plants beyond their capacity? A 61 second minute was added to...

New Cooling Lagoons Could Save the Gulf’s Marine Enviornment

Crystal Lagoons has developed an alternative cooling and energy harvesting system for power plants that doesn't require the use...

Limited Power Shackles Armenia to Precarious Nuclear Plant

In bucolic but earthquake-prone Armenia, people both fear and rely on a nuclear power plant that has operated for...

Summer Heat Jams Power Production in Oil-rich Saudi Arabia

Saudis, Kuwaitis and Emiritis experience summer blackouts, despite being oil- and gas-rich. Lack of infrastructure and change in lifestyle...