Generally speaking, it's best to ensure that water and electricity stay far away from each other. Though water itself doesn't conduct electricity very well, the ions that are in play (in swimming ...

Arizona is becoming EV country. With nearly 90,000 electric vehicles registered there, it’s among the top 10 states for EV ownership in the nation per capita, according to the U.S. Department of ...

Funds managed by Apollo Global Management have agreed to purchase one of the nation’s largest hydroelectric power providers, the latest in a series of big investments in data centers and the ...

The Cloverland Electric Cooperative Plant sits parallel to the St. Marys River in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Built at the turn of the last century, the plant receives water from a canal that was cut ...

Siphons are one of those physics phenomena that, like gyroscopes, non-Newtonian fluids, and electricity, seem almost magical. Thanks to atmospheric pressure, simply filling a tube with liquid and ...

ARCHIVE PHOTO: A man stands on the Three Gorges dam in Yichang, Hubei province, August 9, 2012. REUTERS/Carlos Barria BEIJING/SHANGHAI, Jan 9 (Reuters) - China Three Gorges Corp (CTGC), operator of ...

Demand for power is growing fast, but hydro plants, the oldest source of clean energy, are struggling because of droughts, floods and other extreme weather linked to climate change. Drought and age ...

NORRISTOWN — Montgomery County’s vision to have the Norristown Dam run on hydroelectric power has hit a snag as an existing contract was revised, requiring $400,000. The item was included in an ...

Nepal, May 2 -- The government plans to utilize domestic capital, including remittances from foreign workers, to finance the construction of hydroelectric projects under the 'People's Hydropower' ...

LITTLETON, Colorado, June 7 (Reuters) - The failure of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine this week has brought sharp focus on the important role that hydroelectric dams play in energy ...