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The global battery sector is on fire – and we’re not just talking about lithium-ion battery explosions. In 2025, the global lithium-ion battery market topped USD $150 billion in 2025, marking a stunning 20 percent year-on-year increase. But current lithium-ion battery design has some key limitations, opening up a potentially massive market for competitive designs. One of the major frontrunners are solid-state batteries, which could potentially offer higher energy density, faster recharging times, and better safety than battery cells…
Nuclear energy is poised for a major comeback in the United States. Donald Trump has made the revitalization of the domestic nuclear power sector a major aim of his administration, with the stated goal to reestablish the United States as the global leader in nuclear energy. The idea is that updating and expanding the United States' aging nuclear fleet will give the country a major leg up in terms of energy independence and autonomy. However, the U.S. nuclear energy sector – like the vast majority of the global nuclear sector – is extremely…
Nuclear energy is experiencing a resurgence in popularity on a global scale, thanks to a resurgence in energy security anxieties worldwide. The AI boom has majorly ramped up energy demand projections around the world at the same time that climate pledges are inching dangerously close with perilously little progress to show. Add to this a near-endless cycle of energy crisis and geopolitical conflict, and you're presented with a majorly heightened energy trilemma: how to source energy that is sufficient, affordable, and sustainable. To solve this…
On Wednesday, the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire, pausing the 42-day military campaign by the U.S. and Israel against multiple Iranian military and civilian targets. The Pakistan-brokered deal is, however, already being severely tested: whereas direct U.S. strikes on Iran have stopped, Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon have continued fighting, with Israel maintaining that Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire, while Iran insists that continued Israeli strikes violate the agreement. Meanwhile, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz…
There is great uncertainty as to whether and to what extent the Strait of Hormuz is reopening the flow of global oil and gas trade against the backdrop of a fragile ceasefire. What is certain, however, is that the global energy sector will see far-reaching consequences of the historic disruption for a long time to come. In fact, the global energy landscape may never be the same again. On an average day, approximately one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas trade crosses through the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway between the Persian Gulf and the…
