Battery recycler Ascend Elements files for bankruptcy TechCrunch By:Tim De Chant 10 April 2026 at 23:16 Ascend Elements said that it will be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the wake of a canceled government grant and a challenging market for lithium-ion batteries.
Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M TechCrunch By:Tim De Chant 10 April 2026 at 18:05 Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.Β
Radifyβs sci-fi plasma reactors could break Chinaβs dominance of rare-earth elements TechCrunch By:Tim De Chant 9 April 2026 at 17:00 Radify Metals is developing a new way to process a variety of metals that promises to be pollution free.
How nuclear batteries could speed the race to fusion power TechCrunch By:Tim De Chant 8 April 2026 at 15:30 Avalanche Energy is working on a DARPA project to build a new class of materials capable of turning damaging radiation into electricity.
Why a former AirPods engineer is now building heat pumps TechCrunch By:Tim De Chant 7 April 2026 at 17:00 Merino Energy has simplified the heat pump dramatically in a quest to make them cheaper and easier to install.
AI companies are building huge natural gas plants to power data centers. What could go wrong? TechCrunch By:Tim De Chant 3 April 2026 at 23:48 Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all betting big on new natural gas power plants to run their AI data centers. They may regret it.
People would rather have an Amazon warehouse in their backyard than a data center TechCrunch By:Tim De Chant 3 April 2026 at 23:20 A new poll shows that the debate over data centers is far from settled.