Galan Lithium's original design for Hombre Muerto West, in Argentina, included its own processing. The revised plan, described by Dr.
Heavy truck electrification is advancing in China. In an article on 5/11/2026, Dr. Wang Zhiqiang argues that better batteries and charging and swapping networks change the investment assumptions behind hydrogen for trucks, and that hydrogen should go where reliable supply, real demand and…
In-motion wireless charging depends on the road as much as on the vehicle. Honda is developing with Taisei and Taisei Rotec coils under the asphalt and a receiver under the vehicle, with tests of up to 150 kW and a focus on logistics.
In the third quarter of 2025, electric cars were 70.2% of new passenger cars in Denmark. A year later, 85.4%. In September 2026 they were 17,785 of 20,026 registrations, 88.8%, a record according to Mobility Denmark. Eugen Filippenko-Siebert shares the figure and cites 98% among private buyers.
Decarbonising steel starts with the ore. In a piece reposted by Klaus Steven, Spherical Insights describes BHP, Rio Tinto, SSAB and LKAB advancing hydrogen reduction and electrification, and South Africa naming six priority hydrogen projects in September 2026, including the Saldanha DRI project,…
Building a data centre in São Paulo costs on average US$ 11.66 per watt, against US$ 15.01 in Silicon Valley and US$ 11.80 in Northern Virginia, according to the Turner & Townsend index reported by EXAME. São Paulo ranks 30th.
The energy bill of AI data centres is beginning to be compared with that of entire cities. In a Visual Capitalist infographic reposted by Leonel Rodrigues, Hyperion, planned by Meta, appears with demand equivalent to 43.8 TWh per year, close to the 46.9 TWh attributed to New York.
Not long ago, fuel cell trucks in China were isolated pilots. In a World Economic Forum video, Dalian appears with 26 hydrogen energy businesses and the Jinpu New Area building an entire hydrogen vehicle infrastructure, a case study in the report Inside China's Industrial Transformation.
About 500 hydrogen buses run in Incheon, the Korean city with the largest such fleet, according to a Dong-A Science report reposted by Klaus Steven.
Crusoe, a US AI infrastructure company, announced on 22 October 2026 a partnership with Paraguay's Araico for a data centre next to the Itaipu substation. The post by Murilo Henrique, of Worklivoo, uses the case to argue that idle capacity becomes a contract.
Steel accounts for 8% to 11% of global CO2 emissions. Chemistry World published on 26 October 2026 a feature by Frances Briggs, reposted by Klaus Steven, on clean steel routes: scrap-based electric furnaces, direct reduction with gas or hydrogen, as in Scandinavia, and iron electrowinning.
ABINEE published the third bulletin in its Integrated Solutions series, reported by Canal Solar, on data centres, AI, mobile networks and automation. The argument: energy and telecommunications must be available at the same time, at the location and within the timeframe of the project.
South Korea led global hydrogen car sales in the first half of 2026, according to SNE Research. Against that backdrop, Hyundai announced 50,262 hydrogen vehicles sold over 13 years, reaching 10,000 in 2020, 20,000 in 2022 and 30,000 in 2023, mostly the Nexo, launched in 2018.
Investors are developing a hyperscale data centre in Baixo Guandu (ES) with a projected investment of BRL 7.4 billion and an initial 100 MW, according to a post by Ricardo Frizera. The site exceeds 11 million m², close to a hydroelectric plant and the Belo Horizonte-Vitória fibre route.
Until now, Paraguay has consumed only part of its 50% of Itaipu and ceded the surplus to Brazil. Carlos Alberto Tavares Ferreira reads in Iguazú AI City, by Crusoe with Paraguay's Araico, with projected investments of up to USD 12 billion, a sign that this surplus may shrink.
Crusoe, an American AI infrastructure company, announced on 22 October 2026 a partnership with the Paraguayan company Araico to install high-performance computing next to the Itaipu substation, on the Paraguayan side.
Paraguay sells Brazil the part of its half of Itaipu that it does not use. Now the US State Department has announced an agreement for a high-performance computing and AI centre supplied by the plant, with Crusoe, an AI infrastructure company, and the Paraguayan company Araico.
Nuclear fusion, once almost exclusively the domain of public laboratories, has begun to attract venture capital. In a post reposted from Tocha, Germany's Proxima Fusion, born out of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, is developing stellarators, with Alpha at the start of the 2030s and…
Process waste weighs twice on industry's accounts: in disposal and in the energy that goes unused. Heat Boiler, a boiler manufacturer, has published a 30-second video with this thesis, cites 30 years of activity and invites industry to calculate the savings from converting waste into heat.
Stadler has started testing the hydrogen trains it builds for Italy on a 950 mm narrow-gauge track built between Hemishofen and Ramsen, in Switzerland. The track, near the Bussnang factory, is expected to be used for about three years to commission 21 vehicles.
Tendências Consultoria projects that the Northeast's GDP will grow by an average of 3.3% per year between 2028 and 2035, above Brazil's 2.4%, according to a Canal Solar report that links the trend to the arrival of data centres.
On 15 October, at a SpaceX test area in Texas, a Tesla Roadster left an inverted ramp, spun in the air and landed, in a system with cold gas thrusters.
In Eco Invest Brasil's fifth auction, approved on October 7, demand of R$ 181.3 billion came in more than three times the R$ 49.95 billion approved for six value chains. Batteries and storage received R$ 4.55 billion.
The reposted teardown by Yuichi Nakatani, product engineer at GM do Brasil, describes BYD's 8-in-1 assembly: motor, reducer, inverter, on-board charger, DC-DC converter, PDU, BMS and VCU in a single aluminium block, connected by copper busbars, with no external high-voltage harnesses, and with…
ODATA has published a 79-second video to challenge what it calls the myth of water consumption in data centres. The narration says the perception comes from evaporative systems with cooling towers and that the company's centres use a closed chilled-water loop: after the initial fill, the water…
A video reposted by the AI for Earth page shows two robotic arms on a platform at the top of a pole, handling energised conductors. The text describes robots with LiDAR, 3D vision and AI-assisted navigation that inspect and repair lines without switching the circuit off.
The connection queue has become the gauge of data centres' arrival in Brazil. The repost brings CPFL Energia's figure: requests totalling around 8 GW in 18 months, eight times the installed capacity in the country, close to 1 GW.
Law 14,993/2024 marked two years since its enactment on 8 October. The article by Carlos Alberto Tavares Ferreira lists the instruments created for ethanol, biodiesel, SAF, biomethane and green diesel, and calls for distinguishing announced investment, project under implementation and plant in…
Dr. Wang Zhiqiang wrote on 11 October 2026 that the boundary between batteries and hydrogen in heavy machinery is being redrawn. His case is the German TADUS T16.20 electric tractor, 196 kWh with optional battery swapping, in a power class long treated as hydrogen territory.
The video in the post is a public demonstration, recorded by a third party, with the dashboard showing the charge rising live. The text states that FLASH Charging, with the second generation of the Blade Battery, went from 20% to 97% in 12 minutes at -30 °C.
Hilux fuel cell planned for 2028, anchored in Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1804: public hydrogen stations of 1 t/day every 200 km on the TEN-T network by 31 December 2030.
Paraguay has no tariff category for AI data centres and is already negotiating the largest private works in its history. The post describes Iguazú AI City, by ARAICO, in Yguazú, Alto Paraná: USD 12 billion planned, a phase 1 of USD 300 million with six modules and 6 MW, phases 2 and 3 of USD 5.5…
The connection queue has become the longest item in a data centre's schedule. In the post, Rafael M., account manager at Siemens, states that a site today enters operation in around 11 months with medium voltage available, while high voltage can take 1 to 2 years in the Southeast and 2 to 3 years…
Material on the rainwater harvesting market, bilingual, anchored in the Water-Energy Nexus special report of the IEA World Energy Outlook 2016: the water sector at around 4% of global electricity use by 2040.
The data centre race in the United States has put pressure on the large electrical equipment chain. At the end of September 2026, WEG announced USD 165 million to expand generator production in North America: USD 24 million to adapt an industrial building in Atotonilco de Tula, Mexico, with…
Until 2024 the question was whether direct lithium extraction would work at industrial scale. There is operating data now. According to Eramet, on 1 October 2026, the Centenario-Ratones plant in Salta reached 90% of its 24,000 t-LCE nominal capacity in June 2026.
Andrade Bispo published an explanation of the stages of a desalination plant: intake, pre-treatment by coagulation, flocculation and filtration, high-pressure reverse osmosis and post-treatment with pH adjustment, remineralisation and disinfection.
Ballard announced on 7 October 2026 a 4.8 MW order from Siemens Mobility: 24 FCrail 200 kW fuel cell modules for 12 Mireo Plus H trains destined for Romania's Railway Reform Authority. Deliveries are scheduled for 2027 and 2028, with passenger service expected in 2029.
Dr. Wang Zhiqiang writes that the next phase of industrial competition will be a contest for electricity, as AI data centres, advanced manufacturing, mining, transport and industrial processes become more electricity-intensive, and sums the test up in four terms: cost, reliability, scale and time…
Station rooftops used to be idle space; in India they have become generating assets. The caption on the reposted video reports a 1,376 kWp plant at Gandhi Nagar station in Jaipur, with estimated annual output of 2.5 million units and savings close to 1.5 crore rupees a year.
Ultra-fast charging only solves time when the vehicle, the charger and the grid agree. BYD has put into commercial operation in Brazil a Flash charger rated at up to 1,500 kW per connector, presented by the company as the first in commercial operation outside China.
Water has become a central argument in the public debate on data centres. Joaquim Rolim recommends an interview and summarises the thesis: water consumption in modern data centres would be irrelevant.
The expansion of data centres in Brazil runs up against connection points more than generation. The reposted article argues in that direction, brings together data from Gartner, EPE, ONS and REDATA, and summarises the gap between installed power and available capacity.
Hilux fuel cell for the Dakar, checked against the Clean Hydrogen Partnership SRIA KPIs for heavy-duty vehicles.
The European electric tractor unit had been discussed in terms of range. At IAA Transportation, BYD presented on 16 September the ETT 44, for up to 44 tonnes, with a 651 kWh Blade battery, up to 1,000 hp and charging from 20% to 80% in around 20 minutes at 1.5 MW.
Promotional content about fuel cell vehicles circulates widely in the sector. Mergal Shivaji's post describes how these vehicles work: an electrochemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, water vapour as the only tailpipe emission, fast refuelling, long range, and integration of stack, battery,…
Europe is debating which routes may count towards the synthetic aviation fuel sub-target under ReFuelEU Aviation. In a letter to the European Commission dated 14 September 2026, Transport & Environment and co-signatories ask that electrolytic hydrogen used as an intermediate input in biofuel…
Operational trial of fuel cell port equipment, anchored in the Forth Ports announcement of 17 September 2026.
BMW fuel cell vehicle, read against H2 MOBILITY's hydrogen station network in Germany.
Hydrogen trains in commercial service today run at top speeds around 160 km/h. The post reports images circulating of a CRRC prototype carrying "H2 Hydrogen" markings, linked to a hydrogen-powered high-speed train project.
The consultancy Kearney, in its Data Center Demand Index study, projects that electricity consumption by artificial intelligence servers in data centres will double by 2030. In 2025 these servers accounted for 23% to 27% of the energy consumed by data centres.
At IAA Transportation 2026, which opened on September 15 in Hanover, Toyota announced it will supply fuel cells for heavy trucks to Scania and Iveco, and China's Dongfeng presented a 400 kW system with a maximum range of 1,700 km.
Until now, data centre equipment entered the country with the full federal tax burden on acquisition. The situation has changed: in addition to approval in the Senate, Law 15,504 was signed and published in the Official Gazette of 16 September 2026, creating Redata, with an estimated BRL 2 trillion…
BYD recorded, in a test at minus 30 degrees Celsius, charging from 20% to 97% in 12 minutes with FLASH Charging technology and the second generation of the Blade Battery, three minutes longer than at ambient temperature.
Hydrogen truck specifications are usually compared by range and power. Dongfeng announced a platform with 1,700 km of range, hydrogen consumption as low as 7 kg per 100 km and a 400 kW fuel-cell system, with peak efficiency of 65% and cold start at minus 40 degrees Celsius.
The declared challenge in hydrogen aviation has moved from propulsion to thermal management. TAT Technologies is now working with French aerospace startup Beyond Aero on the cooling system of the hydrogen-electric business aircraft the company is designing for 800-mile flights.
Hydrogen cruise ships have moved from one-off project to series. Viking floated out its second such vessel, with hybrid propulsion based partly on liquefied hydrogen and fuel cells capable of producing up to six megawatts, supplied by Isotta Fraschini Motori, a Fincantieri subsidiary.
Automation has left software and entered factories, logistics and workplaces. The post reposted by the AI for Earth page addresses that shift and argues that adoption depends on trust, with clear regulation, safety standards, fail-safe systems and human oversight.
A ride-hailing driver reported having driven around 7,800 kilometres in one month with a BYD Dolphin Mini and spent BRL 762 on charging, against the roughly BRL 4,200 he estimates he spent on fuel in his previous Volkswagen Gol.
A supplier list is usually read as a map of market maturity. The material reposted by Mergal Shivaji names Alstom, Siemens Mobility, CRRC, Stadler and Ballard among the leading suppliers of fuel cell trains in 2026.
The Hainan underwater data centre in China entered commercial operation in late March 2023 and received, on 18 February 2025, an 18-metre module holding more than 400 servers, cooled by natural seawater flow, with a power usage effectiveness of 1.1 against the 1.4 threshold required in the country.
Brazil registered 271,100 electrified vehicles between January and July 2026, more than in the whole of 2025, and already has more than 25,000 public and semi-public charging points, according to the reposted publication.
Electricity from Viridor's energy-from-waste plants in the United Kingdom used to go to the grid. The 10 June 2026 announcement changes the destination: Viridor and Rivington Energy will develop up to 200 MW of data centres across four sites, and the first, 40 MW at Avonmouth, Bristol, has been…
The public refuelling network for heavy trucks in Germany is concentrated in a few locations. The post by Christoph Börger announces for 27 August 2026 the opening, in Rheine, of ChargePool's first truck charging park and first hydrogen station, at 350 and 700 bar, at an existing Krimphoff &…
Tidal current energy has moved out of the laboratory into pre-commercial farms, still far from solar or wind scale. Sayli Deshmukh circulated a PDF guide on underwater turbines estimating the market at USD 0.58 billion in 2025 and USD 0.97 billion by 2036, growing 4.5% a year from 2026 to 2036.
A market guide circulating here projects the global hydrogen fuel cell vehicle market rising from USD 0.2 billion in 2024 to USD 2.1 billion in 2030, a 48% compound annual growth rate. That is a consultancy projection, not a recorded result.
Foldable panels are no longer a camping accessory and are now presented as a way to recharge parked electric vehicles. The publication describes these portable modules as a complement to grid charging, with a gain in range and lower charging costs in the long term, without stating the equipment's…
The publication presents wireless energy transfer as a line of development in Finland, cites the startup Willo among the companies exploring continuous energy delivery and records that domestic or long-distance grid use remains beyond current reach.
Before Hainan, subsea cooling had remained at the testing stage: Microsoft submerged the first Project Natick in 2015 and ended the Orkney trial in 2020 with no commercial follow-up.
MAN has put three fuel-cell trucks into regular logistics operation in southern Germany, in the Bayernflotte project. They are vehicles of up to 42 tonnes gross combination weight, with a Bosch fuel-cell system, 36 kg of hydrogen in 700 bar tanks and a range of 450 to 500 km, according to the…
Electrification of bus fleets in Brazil has targets in law before it has infrastructure installed. In the post, Electric Mobility Brasil announces its presence at LAT.BUS 2026, from 11 to 13 August, at São Paulo Expo, with charging solutions for electric buses.
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A Meta ampliou a capacidade planejada do Hyperion. A conversão direta para energia é apenas um cenário, não uma previsão de consumo.
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Dalian is testing a regional hydrogen chain for heavy transport. Data on stations and capacity help explain the infrastructure, but do not prove national competitiveness or economic return. The decisive point is route utilization, the cost of delivered fuel and predictable demand.
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RIPPLE starts with four ships and could reach ten. Expansion depends on agreements, retrofits, fuel and freight contracts. The analysis separates the role of the initial subsidy from the demand that has to sustain operations.
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The RIPPLE project proposes converting carriers to use ammonia as fuel: dual-fuel engine, safety and emissions.
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The announcement of AI infrastructure in Paraguay opens a discussion on the use of Itaipu's energy: computing capacity, power consumption and exportable surplus.
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FuelEU Maritime reduces the emission intensity of ships without imposing universal use of hydrogen; demand depends on certified fuel, price and logistics.
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A Hyster fuel cell ReachStacker began an operational trial at the Port of Tilbury.
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Brazil's Senate approved Bill 2,132/2025 and sent it to the lower house. The proposal creates a circularity policy for vehicle batteries.
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Manufacturers are expanding alliances and demonstrations of fuel cell trucks, while the European Union tightens its emission targets.
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REDATA became law and created tax incentives for installing, upgrading and expanding data centers in Brazil.