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Oil surges to 2-week high as Trump pledges Syria missile attack

Bloomberg Oil surged to a two-week high in New York as President Donald Trump told Russia in a tweet to “get ready” for US missiles to be fired at Syria. Futures in New York rose as much as 1.3 percent after climbing the most in eight months. President Donald Trump has intensified preparations for a response to a suspected chemical ...

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First small-scale N-reactor may be just 8 yrs away

Bloomberg The world’s first small-scale nuclear power reactor may be just eight years away. NuScale Power LLC, which is leading global efforts to build a so-called small modular reactor, is seeking as much as $120 million in equity investment to accelerate design of a matching power generator. The company has already spent more than $700 million, and has “hundreds of ...

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Batteries: Google’s next clean energy investment bet

Bloomberg Google, already the world’s biggest corporate buyer of wind and solar power, may soon be making another clean energy bet — this time, on batteries. “We would like to do something in 2018,” Neha Palmer, head of energy strategy at the Alphabet Inc. unit, said in an interview at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Future of Energy summit in ...

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