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Zimbabwe launches $500-mln power units to ease energy woes

Kariba, Zimbabwe (AFP) Sept 04, 2014 - Energy-starved Zimbabwe on Thursday launched a $533-million project with China to scale up electricity generation at one of its major power plants in a bid to ease perennial energy woes.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Jun 25, 2026

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A 2024 estimate put a 100-word GPT-4 email at 519 millilitres of water, while training GPT-3 may have directly consumed enough for 350,000 people to drink for a day

The 500-millilitre-per-query figure for ChatGPT comes from a 2024 UC Riverside and Washington Post collaboration, and training a single large model can evaporate 5.4 million gallons — enough drinking water for 300,000 people for a day. The fight over that number is now a projected $58 billion US infrastructure problem.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Jul 28, 2026
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In 1859, a solar storm now called the Carrington Event pushed auroras as far south as Cuba and set telegraph paper on fire in offices from Boston to Paris, with operators reporting they could still send messages after disconnecting the batteries because the wires were carrying the storm's own current.

On September 1, 1859, a solar flare observed by Richard Carrington hurled a coronal mass ejection that crossed 90 million miles in under 18 hours, lighting auroras from Cuba to Santiago and pushing enough current into telegraph wires that operators could send messages with their batteries disconnected. The physics that shocked 19th-century telegraph clerks now threatens the extra-high-voltage transformers holding up the modern grid.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Jul 27, 2026
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A grid-scale battery ferry roughly 130 metres long is now crossing the Río de la Plata between Argentina and Uruguay carrying about 2,100 passengers on charge alone, making it the largest all-electric passenger vessel ever floated

A 130-metre catamaran built by Incat in Tasmania is now crossing the Río de la Plata between Argentina and Uruguay carrying 2,100 passengers on stored electricity alone, making it the largest fully battery-powered passenger vessel in service anywhere.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Jul 27, 2026
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What happened when engineers built a single dam across the neck of a dying inland sea, and the northern lobe rose roughly four metres while fish returned to villages that had been stranded 100 kilometres from any shore?

The Kokaral Dam, a 13-kilometre earthen barrier completed in 2005 across the neck of the Aral Sea, raised the North Aral by roughly four metres, cut salinity by more than half, and brought commercial fishing back to Kazakh villages stranded a hundred kilometres from any shore.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Jul 27, 2026

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