An associate professor at LSU is using a Board of Regents grant to design a non-metal rechargeable battery that might one day replace lithium batteries on Earth and in space.
On Monday, Entergy announced it had signed an agreement with global offshore wind company RWE to jointly evaluate the delivery of offshore wind energy to industrial customers in Texas and Louisiana.
The U.S. is Earth's punching bag for nasty weather, and Louisiana is among the hardest hit in the country, which is part of why the state is in the middle of a housing insurance crisis.
Oil prices soared nearly 6% earlier this morning after Saudi Arabia and other major oil producers said they will cut production by 1.15 million barrels per day from May until the end of the year.