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A cruising Mars spacecraft has to manage extreme heat and cold on the same flight

A Mars-bound spacecraft endures a 500-degree temperature gap across its own hull at every second of cruise — and the foil, aerogel and plutonium pellets that hold it together.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Sep 8, 2026

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In 1856, an American scientist named Eunice Newton Foote filled glass cylinders with carbon dioxide, set them in sunlight, and measured the temperature climbing faster than in cylinders of ordinary air, publishing the first known experimental evidence of the greenhouse effect three years before John Tyndall received credit for the same discovery.

In 1856, Eunice Newton Foote proved that carbon dioxide traps heat using two glass cylinders and a thermometer — the first known experimental demonstration of the greenhouse effect, published three years before John Tyndall received credit for the same discovery.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Aug 31, 2026
Wind Daily

A single wind turbine blade on the latest offshore machines sweeps an area larger than the London Eye with every rotation, and just one of these turbines can power roughly 20,000 European homes for a full year

A single blade on the newest generation of offshore wind turbines is longer than a football pitch, and its rotor sweeps a circle larger than the London Eye. One machine can power close to 20,000 European homes for a year — and the industry is already reaching for 25-megawatt giants.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Aug 28, 2026
Water World

The Three Gorges Dam holds back roughly 39 cubic kilometres of water on the Yangtze, and NASA calculated that shifting that much mass so far above sea level lengthened Earth's day by 0.06 microseconds by nudging the planet's moment of inertia

The Three Gorges Dam impounds roughly 39 cubic kilometres of Yangtze water at an average of 175 metres above sea level — enough mass, lifted high enough, to lengthen Earth's day by 0.06 microseconds by shifting the planet's moment of inertia.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Aug 23, 2026
Solar Science

The Parker Solar Probe now passes within 6.1 million kilometres of the Sun's surface at roughly 692,000 kilometres per hour, fast enough to cross the continental United States in about 20 seconds, protected only by a 11.4-centimetre carbon composite shield that keeps its instruments at room temperature while the front face glows at 1,377 degrees Celsius

NASA's Parker Solar Probe now flies through the Sun's outer atmosphere at 692,000 km/h, protected by an 11.4-centimetre carbon shield that glows at 1,377°C while the instruments behind it sit at room temperature.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Aug 19, 2026
Energy Tech

In 1954, engineers at the Obninsk plant southwest of Moscow connected a 5-megawatt graphite-moderated reactor to the Soviet grid and became the first station anywhere to sell nuclear electricity to paying customers, nearly three years before the West managed the same feat at Calder Hall.

On 27 June 1954, a 5-megawatt graphite-moderated reactor near Moscow became the first anywhere to sell nuclear electricity commercially — beating Britain's Calder Hall by nearly three years and starting a lineage that runs directly to today's VVER-1200 reactors being built in seven countries.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Aug 18, 2026

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