In 2025, AI and EVs gave the US an insatiable hunger for power

You may be surprised to learn electricity only accounts for 21 percent of the world’s energy consumption. Fossil fuels and the rest all play their part to make the world go around, but their role is [...]

Why do AI data centers use so many resources?

With the AI boom, construction of new data centers has skyrocketed, and not without consequence — some communities that count these facilities as neighbors are now facing water shortages and straine [...]

The Partial solar eclipse will be visible at sunrise today: Here's how to watch it

Today's the day: A solar eclipse will darken the skies in the northeastern US and Canada in the early hours of Saturday. Unlike the “Great American Eclipse” of 2024, however, this will not be [...]

Partial Solar Eclipse: Where and when to see the sunrise event on March 29

On Saturday, March 29, a solar eclipse will darken the skies. Unlike the “Great American Eclipse” of 2024, though, this will not be a total eclipse; instead, a partial eclipse will be visible in t [...]

CES: So very big, so little sustainability tech

Every third booth at CES showed off some new AI product or other. If you wanted to find a robotic lawn mower, throw a rock. Humanoid robots, smart locks and super thin TVs were everywhere. But if you [...]

Sister, can you spare $12,000 to help me decarbonize my home?

I went to CES with Engadget for the first time this year and, among the robots, laptops, TVs and more robots, the most exciting products I saw were ones trying to make our homes more eco-friendly in t [...]

Best of both worlds: How Recteq designed a pellet grill for gas grillers

Recteq makes pellet grills, but those can’t do it all when it comes to backyard cooking. So when the company sought to create an alternative for gas grillers, without making an actual gas grill, it [...]

Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ is a middle finger to US solar energy

The so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” will, if passed, make sweeping changes to the US’ clean energy market. While some of the worst provisions affecting the industry were stripped out during Sena [...]

Trump administration is paying more companies to abandon offshore wind projects

The Trump Administration has signed deals with two major energy companies to abandon their respective offshore wind farms, with both firms agreeing to invest in oil and gas projects instead.<br /&g [...]