More drone incursions, now over Barkdale AFB in Louisiana

This base is home to B 52 bombers and atom bombs . Barksdale Air Force Base detected multiple unauthorized drones operating in our airspace during the week of March 9th,” Capt. Hunter Rininger of the 2nd Bomb Wing said in a statement provided to ABC News. The additional drone incursions had not been previously reported. According to the confidential briefing document dated March 15, the drones came in waves and entered and exited the base in a way that may suggest attempts to “avoid the operator(s) being located.” Lights on the drones suggested the operators “may be testing security responses” at the base. “Between March 9-15, 2026, BAFB Security Forces observed multiple waves of 12-15 drones operating over sensitive areas of the installation, including the flight line, with aircraft displaying non-commercial signal characteristics, long-range control links and resistance to jamming,” the document said. “After reaching multiple points across the installation, the drones dispersed across sensitive locations on the base.” https://abcnews.com/International/story?id=131245527

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating

The mega-leaks occur across the world, but the top 25 list, produced by the Stop Methane Project at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is dominated by facilities in Turkmenistan. The scale of methane leaks in the secretive and authoritarian state has previously been described as “mind-boggling”. Super-polluting plumes were also seen in the US, the largest detected in 2025 occurring in Texas and leaking 5.5 tonnes of methane per hour, equivalent to running about a million fuel-guzzling SUVs. Venezuela (five) and Iran (three) also had multiple mega-leaks from state-owned facilities. The Stop Methane Project also analysed super-polluting plumes from landfill sites, where rotting organic waste can release huge volumes of methane when not well managed. The worst sites ranged across the world, from Turkey to Algeria and Malaysia to the US. Good thing we have methane sensing satelites now!!! see the whole story here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/17/revealed-world-worst-methane-leaks-global-heating

Battery with 120.000 cycle life, low powerdensity but cheap, green!

Made with tofu water, no mention of cathode or andode chemistry... For reference, batteries in things like cellphones typically require around 800 cycles before the battery starts to degrade. EV batteries typically last between 1,500 and 3,000 cycles, and a good LFP grid battery lasts between 6,000 and 10,000 cycles. Can it scale? At over a hundred thousand cycles, this could mean a single water-based battery could last at least a decade or so. For applications like grid storage (solar farms, wind balancing), that’s extremely valuable. And it is this kind of application that the new battery is likely aimed at. While it could, theoretically, be used in things like phones, such batteries have lower energy densities and may not be appropriate in the long run. It is important to note that battery breakthroughs like this seem to happen all the time in academia, but not all “make it” to market. What really matters is if the tech can be scaled, is energy-dense enough to complete, and can prove cheap at an industrial scale. “Compared with current aqueous battery systems … our system delivers exceptional long-term cycling stability and environmental friendliness under neutral conditions,” the team said in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications on February 18. According to the researchers from City University of Hong Kong, Yanan University, the Southern University of Science and Technology and Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, their battery can last more than 120,000 recharge cycles with minimal performance loss. “Such performance highlights the research potential of this work and underscores its promise for practical application,” the team said. here is the link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69384-2