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Our Journey to an All-Electric Home — From Gas to Green

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What began as a concern for the planet is now becoming a smart financial move for many Australians: the electric home. The trend is even being promoted by Bunnings Australia and New Zealand’s leading retailer of home improvement and lifestyle products, and a major supplier to project builders, commercial.

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First Supercritical CO2 Circuit Breaker Debuts

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The first-of-its-kind device could replace conventional high-voltage breakers, which use the potent greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride, or SF 6. Such equipment is scattered widely throughout power grids as a way to stop the flow of electrical current in an emergency. GE Vernova On top of that, SF 6 byproducts are toxic to humans.

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Airbus is Working on a Superconducting Electric Aircraft

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At the Summit, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury backed off of a goal to fly such a plane by 2035, citing the lack of a regulatory framework for certifying such an aircraft as well as the slow pace of the build-out of infrastructure needed to produce green hydrogen at commercial scale and at competitive prices.

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Event: 2025 ACT Expo

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The Latest Developments in Low and Zero-Emission Commercial Vehicles The largest coming together of the clean energy industry for commercial vehicles, ACT Expo 2025 (for A dvanced C lean T ransportation) was held this past week in Anaheim, California. Deliveries to commercial customers begin in 2026.

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Get Ready for the Stellarator Showdown

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Fusion requires temperatures hotter than the suns core and a mastery of plasmathe superheated gas in which atoms that have been stripped of their electrons collide, their nuclei fusing. Both firms say the papers demonstrate that their machines can deliver commercial fusion energy. But the challenge is huge.

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Will Supercapacitors Come to AI's Rescue?

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electricity provider National Grid faces a problem every time there is a soccer match on (or any other widely viewed televised event for that matter): During half-time, or a commercial break, an inordinate number of viewers go to turn on their tea kettles. In the U.K.,

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Superconducting Motor Could Propel Electric Aircraft

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And yet commercial applications have been elusive. Now, though, a couple of developments could finally push high-temperature superconductors into commercial use. Among that latter group of startups is Hinetics , formed in 2017 to commercialize research led by Kiruba Haran at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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