Generating high voltages isn’t too hard. A decent transformer will easily get you into the 100s of kilovolts, provided you’re a power company and have access to millions of dollars and a substation to ...

Electrical-equipment manufacturers employ laboratory researchers, for the good reason that they want to find better ways of producing power, better ways of protecting power on transmission lines. One ...

This lightning generator is called MAGPIE, which stands for Mega Ampere Generator for Plasma Implosion Experiments. (Yep, I know what you’re thinking, us physicists are great at making acronyms). In ...

America's energy infrastructure isn't perfect. As such, we've seen situations like that in February of 2021 in Texas, where thousands of people were left without electricity for days in freezing ...

Ford touts its newly revealed, all-electric 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning as the "ultimate portable energy source." There's good reason for that. In addition to being able to power all of your gear ...