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Sunday, October 4, 2026
WindDaily Sep 29, 2026 (AFP)

World's tallest wind turbine in Germany reaches full height

A wind turbine being built in eastern Germany reached its full height of 365 metres (1,197 feet) Tuesday, making it the world's tallest, according to the company that built it.

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WindDaily Jul 22, 2026 (AFP)
Metal mining's carbon footprint far larger than thought: study

From building wind turbines to reinforcing power grids for rising demand from electric cars, transitioning from fossil fuels to gr...

WindDaily Jul 17, 2026 (AFP)
From coal pits to wind turbines, Polish miners rise to the occasion

From the top of a wind turbine nearly 100 metres above the ground, Grzegorz Witek, a coal miner, gazes at the horizon.

WindDaily May 01, 2026 (SPX)
Princeton Study Maps Raw Material Risks as Drone and Robot Output Scales Toward Millions of Units

Researchers estimate commercial drone production could scale by up to 10 times by the late 2030s, while output of humanoid and qua...

SkyNightly Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Lunar dust control moves from lab to Moon as crewed landings near

Engineers preparing for long stays on the Moon now have flight data showing that electric fields can clear lunar dust from hardwar...

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WindDaily SOLAR Apr 29, 2026 (SPX)
Desert Renewable Grids Built To Survive Extreme Heat And Calm

Growing interest in transitioning from fossil-fueled electricity to locally powered renewable grids has prompted communities such as the KAUST campus to explore fully renewable con...

WindDaily WINDDAILY Apr 20, 2026 (AFP)
UK to accelerate clean energy drive amid Mideast war

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband will use a speech later in the day to expand on the proposed measures, which include "driving forward plans to massively expand renewables" on governme...

WindDaily SOLAR Apr 16, 2026 (SPX)
Molecular Lock Design Pushes Perovskite Solar Cell Efficiency Past 26 Percent

To achieve record efficiencies, scientists typically use self-assembled monolayers, or SAMs, just one molecule thick to extract positive charges from the perovskite layer. However,...

OilGasDaily UAV NEWS Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Four decades of development stand behind Iran drone industry

The drones Iran has launched in the thousands at Gulf states and US bases since the Middle East war began on February 28, 2026 come from an industry that has been under constructio...

SkyNightly EXTRA SOLAR Oct 04, 2026 (SPX)
Webb data indicate an atmosphere on HD 3167 b, the coolest lava world yet found with one

In the search for life beyond Earth, rocky planets with atmospheres are the natural first targets, since a planet without an atmosphere cannot hold surface water. Yet of the more t...

SolarCell FROTH AND BUBBLE Oct 04, 2026 (SPX)
Solar-activated catalyst in bin lid breaks down odors from rotting food waste

Garbage left outdoors begins to smell quickly, particularly in warm, humid climates that speed up food decay. Writing in the American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science...

PolicyDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
Yemen presidency announces military drive to retake all Houthi territory

Yemen's leader announced on Sunday the start of a new military operation to retake all territory held by the H...

PolicyDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
Iran airlines resume flights to Iraqi holy city after US exemption

Iranian airlines resumed flights to Iraq's Najaf on Sunday after the United States granted Baghdad an exemptio...

DarwinDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
Brazil votes in nail-biter polls closely watched by Trump

Brazilians started voting Sunday in a knife-edge race between President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Flavio B...

PolicyDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
Houthis target Aramco sites in Saudi capital, Khurais area: statement

Yemen's Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree on Sunday said the group launched a ballistic missile and drone ...