Open Circuit

We're on vacation through the end of August, so this week we’re featuring an episode of The Green Blueprint.

Lithium-ion batteries have revolutionized energy storage. But inexpensive, multi-day storage will still be critical for backin...

Arbor Energy is betting that smaller, modular turbines can solve problems the conventional generation model was never designed for.

Arbor Energy was founded with an unusual idea: take technologies from rocket engines and use them to make carbon-negative power plants.

Today, the market has radically changed. Demand for turbines is exploding, the supply chain is j...

After Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz, everyone thought prices would hit historic highs. But they didn't. Why?

The answer is less about market resiliency, and more about two major government interventions. The U.S. intervened using a central banking model, and China intervened with a top-down government approach.

James Gutman, head of research at Abaxx Techn...

The showdown over data centers is taking a new turn. This week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a data center pause in order to audit how they’ll impact water supplies and the power grid. This comes weeks after New York issued a moratorium.

Not long ago, Governor Abbott was declaring Texas the center of the AI boom. But with his re-election bid under threat, he’s ...

It's been almost a decade since the “Electrify Everything” movement kicked off. And guess what? We aren't electrifying everything.

We're seeing strong growth in electric vehicles, heat pumps, and induction cooktops. But we're still trapped inside a system that makes the electric choice harder to make. And nowhere is that more obvious than with heat pumps.

Every...