Commentary Oh, great- another addition to the energy crisis. One of the world's largest natural gas liquefaction plants suffered an explosion on Wednesday. The cause of the blast is not known, but the Freeport LNG plant on Quintana Island - about 70 miles south of Houston - will be out of service for at least three weeks, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Few bitcoin projects illustrate the cryptocurrency's enormous climate impact better than the Greenidge power plant in upstate New York. The once-abandoned power plant was bought by private equity firm Atlas Holdings and retasked. A significant portion of Greenidge's electricity no longer powers nearby homes or businesses; rather, the plant's smokestacks are increasingly pouring pollutants into the atmosphere in the service of mining bitcoin.

A prototype jet engine can propel itself without using any fossil fuels, potentially paving the way for carbon-neutral air travel. The device compresses air and ionizes it with microwaves, generating plasma that thrusts it forward, according to research published Tuesday in the journal AIP Advances.