The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — Alliant Energy will start construction on a new power plant in Cedar Rapids — called the ...

We walk here, we walk there, we walk everywhere. Maybe you’re headed to work or to lunch in a busy city. You’re expending energy, and the exercise is good for you. But what if, on top of that, we ...

This story is part of the optimistic argument for the future of the planet in our special issue on Earth Day. Read the pessimistic argument and the rest of our stories here.

Solar and wind accounted for almost 96% of new US electrical generating capacity added in the first third of 2025. In April, solar provided 87% of new capacity, making it the 20th consecutive month ...

The Coronado Generating Station (CGS) in St. John’s, AZ (Credit: SRP) Salt River Project (SRP) will convert the coal-fired Coronado Generating Station (CGS) to run on natural gas, following a ...

In December 2023, the MIT Tech Review published an article with the headline “Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone.” Most users of image generation tools, ...

Have you ever spent hours manually updating a spreadsheet, only to realize there’s a faster, smarter way to get the job done? Excel is a tool most of us use, but few truly master. The irony? Some of ...

In the US, many newly constructed generating facilities are brought online at the end of the year to qualify for tax incentives. Since much of the US’s new generating capacity is solar power, that has ...

A team has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating electricity, using a natural process that pushes electrons into their surroundings instead of breathing on oxygen. The findings could ...

Water droplets falling through a tube have generated enough electricity to power 12 LED lights. Such an approach could one day be used in roof-based systems to harvest lots of clean power from rain.

A trio of physicists from Princeton University, CIT's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Spectral Sensor Solutions, all in the U.S., is proposing the possibility of generating electricity using energy from ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, whose company has invested billions of dollars in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has had it with the constant hype surrounding AI. During an appearance on podcaster Dwarkesh ...