Latest news with #Magellan
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Anax Power, Magellan Scientific, and Enbridge to Deploy Turboexpanders in Ontario & Pennsylvania
WHARTON, N.J., June 06, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Anax Power ( whose proprietary technology generates clean power from natural gas, without combustion, has signed Operating Agreements with Enbridge ( to install its Anax Turboexpander System ("ATE") at locations in Pennsylvania and Ontario, Canada. The projects will add up to 1.5 megawatts (MW) of clean energy capacity to Enbridge's system at Hamilton, Ontario and up to 2MW in Pennsylvania. This emissions-free power will be consumed in Magellan Scientific's ( co-located, modular, off-grid data centers. The ATE uses the pressure and flow of natural gas within Enbridge's pipeline to drive a turbine and generate zero-emissions electricity, without burning natural gas or releasing greenhouse gases. The Pennsylvania project marks Anax and Magellan's second installation in the state, and the Hamilton project will be the first ATE installation in Canada. Keeping with its sustainability pledge, Enbridge is the first major pipeline in North America to adopt the ATE, which could scale to hundreds of locations across Enbridge's system in the coming years. Anax will install up to three (3) ATEs at an Enbridge facility in Ontario and up to four (4) ATEs in Pennsylvania. Both projects will be integrated with Magellan's co-located, modular, off-grid data center. The resulting turboexpander-data center system self-generates clean, base load power, and uses excess cooling to improve server efficiency and thermal management. "These projects represent monumental milestones for Anax, and we believe this will be the start of a long partnership with Enbridge and Magellan as we scale across North America," said Michael Longo, CEO of Anax Power. "By turning waste energy into clean electricity, this installation demonstrates how Anax makes existing energy infrastructure more sustainable—right now, with proven technology." The Enbridge projects expand Anax and Magellan's portfolio of clean power projects and validate using turboexpanders to meet climate goals in a profitable way. "Data center demands for electricity are exponentially increasing," said Christopher Halvorson, President of Magellan Scientific. "Pairing our off-grid immersion data centers with the ATEs provides a source of 24/7, emission-free electricity. The turboexpander also helps to manage excessive heat from the data center by providing cooling at zero incremental cost." "This collaboration reflects our ongoing commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through innovative, sustainable solutions," said Steven Greenley, Senior Vice President of Commercial, Enbridge Gas. "We take pride in utilizing our natural gas systems to champion environmental initiatives to enhance the well-being of the communities we operate in." View source version on Contacts Anax Contact: press@ LinkedIn Magellan Contact: Brent BreonVice President, Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Anax Power, Magellan Scientific, and Enbridge to Deploy Turboexpanders in Ontario & Pennsylvania
WHARTON, N.J., June 06, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Anax Power ( whose proprietary technology generates clean power from natural gas, without combustion, has signed Operating Agreements with Enbridge ( to install its Anax Turboexpander System ("ATE") at locations in Pennsylvania and Ontario, Canada. The projects will add up to 1.5 megawatts (MW) of clean energy capacity to Enbridge's system at Hamilton, Ontario and up to 2MW in Pennsylvania. This emissions-free power will be consumed in Magellan Scientific's ( co-located, modular, off-grid data centers. The ATE uses the pressure and flow of natural gas within Enbridge's pipeline to drive a turbine and generate zero-emissions electricity, without burning natural gas or releasing greenhouse gases. The Pennsylvania project marks Anax and Magellan's second installation in the state, and the Hamilton project will be the first ATE installation in Canada. Keeping with its sustainability pledge, Enbridge is the first major pipeline in North America to adopt the ATE, which could scale to hundreds of locations across Enbridge's system in the coming years. Anax will install up to three (3) ATEs at an Enbridge facility in Ontario and up to four (4) ATEs in Pennsylvania. Both projects will be integrated with Magellan's co-located, modular, off-grid data center. The resulting turboexpander-data center system self-generates clean, base load power, and uses excess cooling to improve server efficiency and thermal management. "These projects represent monumental milestones for Anax, and we believe this will be the start of a long partnership with Enbridge and Magellan as we scale across North America," said Michael Longo, CEO of Anax Power. "By turning waste energy into clean electricity, this installation demonstrates how Anax makes existing energy infrastructure more sustainable—right now, with proven technology." The Enbridge projects expand Anax and Magellan's portfolio of clean power projects and validate using turboexpanders to meet climate goals in a profitable way. "Data center demands for electricity are exponentially increasing," said Christopher Halvorson, President of Magellan Scientific. "Pairing our off-grid immersion data centers with the ATEs provides a source of 24/7, emission-free electricity. The turboexpander also helps to manage excessive heat from the data center by providing cooling at zero incremental cost." "This collaboration reflects our ongoing commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through innovative, sustainable solutions," said Steven Greenley, Senior Vice President of Commercial, Enbridge Gas. "We take pride in utilizing our natural gas systems to champion environmental initiatives to enhance the well-being of the communities we operate in." View source version on Contacts Anax Contact: press@ LinkedIn Magellan Contact: Brent BreonVice President,
Business Wire
06-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Anax Power, Magellan Scientific, and Enbridge to Deploy Turboexpanders in Ontario & Pennsylvania
WHARTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Anax Power ( whose proprietary technology generates clean power from natural gas, without combustion, has signed Operating Agreements with Enbridge ( to install its Anax Turboexpander System ('ATE') at locations in Pennsylvania and Ontario, Canada. The projects will add up to 1.5 megawatts (MW) of clean energy capacity to Enbridge's system at Hamilton, Ontario and up to 2MW in Pennsylvania. This emissions-free power will be consumed in Magellan Scientific's ( co-located, modular, off-grid data centers. 'This collaboration reflects our ongoing commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through innovative, sustainable solutions' said Steven Greenley, Senior Vice President of Commercial, Enbridge Gas Share The ATE uses the pressure and flow of natural gas within Enbridge's pipeline to drive a turbine and generate zero-emissions electricity, without burning natural gas or releasing greenhouse gases. The Pennsylvania project marks Anax and Magellan's second installation in the state, and the Hamilton project will be the first ATE installation in Canada. Keeping with its sustainability pledge, Enbridge is the first major pipeline in North America to adopt the ATE, which could scale to hundreds of locations across Enbridge's system in the coming years. Anax will install up to three (3) ATEs at an Enbridge facility in Ontario and up to four (4) ATEs in Pennsylvania. Both projects will be integrated with Magellan's co-located, modular, off-grid data center. The resulting turboexpander-data center system self-generates clean, base load power, and uses excess cooling to improve server efficiency and thermal management. 'These projects represent monumental milestones for Anax, and we believe this will be the start of a long partnership with Enbridge and Magellan as we scale across North America,' said Michael Longo, CEO of Anax Power. 'By turning waste energy into clean electricity, this installation demonstrates how Anax makes existing energy infrastructure more sustainable—right now, with proven technology.' The Enbridge projects expand Anax and Magellan's portfolio of clean power projects and validate using turboexpanders to meet climate goals in a profitable way. 'Data center demands for electricity are exponentially increasing,' said Christopher Halvorson, President of Magellan Scientific. 'Pairing our off-grid immersion data centers with the ATEs provides a source of 24/7, emission-free electricity. The turboexpander also helps to manage excessive heat from the data center by providing cooling at zero incremental cost.' 'This collaboration reflects our ongoing commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through innovative, sustainable solutions,' said Steven Greenley, Senior Vice President of Commercial, Enbridge Gas. 'We take pride in utilizing our natural gas systems to champion environmental initiatives to enhance the well-being of the communities we operate in.'
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Hold the syrup: Weirdly perfect 'pancakes' on Venus may prove the planet is buckling
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists may have finally cracked the recipe behind Venus' giant pancakes. Venus is famous for its "pancake domes" — steep-sided volcanoes that rise from the planet's surface like circular welts. A study now suggests that these unusual dome-shaped structures are at least partly sculpted by the planet's upper crust, which seems more flexible in certain regions. Volcanoes are common across Venus, with more than 1,600 large volcanoes or volcanic features discovered so far. One of the more intriguing types are the so-called pancake domes, disk-shaped structures that stretch over tens of miles but are only half a mile in height, like a flattened version of Hawaii's Mauna Loa. Exactly how these volcanoes form — and what they're made of — is still a mystery. One idea is that they develop from super-sticky, slow-flowing lava that moves under the force of its own weight (the technical term for this phenomenon is a viscous gravity current). Eventually, the lava stops moving and solidifies, forming the pancake domes. But does the domes' formation depend only on the type of lava? Probably not, Madison Borrelli, a postdoctoral researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology and first author of the new study, told Live Science by email. One factor that many previous studies hadn't considered was the bendiness', or the flexure, of Venus' upper crust. It turns out that Venus' surface — and Earth's — behaves, in certain areas, like an orange's skin: under a sufficiently heavy load, the surfaces dimple. If such dimpling accompanied the pancake domes' formation, it would leave certain tell-tale signs, like a bulge surrounding the dome, where the crust buckled upwards. Indeed, a 2021 study found such flexural signatures surrounding one-fifth of a sample of Venusian pancake domes. Related: Venus may be geologically 'alive' after all, reanalysis of 30-year-old NASA data reveals To determine how a bendy crust could affect the formation of a pancake dome, Borrelli and her colleagues at universities in France and the U.S. focused on the only dome for which they had high resolution data: the Narina Tholus, an 88.5-mile-wide (55 kilometers) dome located on the circumference of the Aramaiti Corona, one of the many giant oval structures that pockmark Venus' surface. The new study, published May 10 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, used topographical data collected by NASA's radar-wielding Magellan mission in the 1990s, the researchers created a virtual model of the Narina Tholus dome. They then simulated viscous gravity currents of lavas of different densities atop both a flexible upper crust and a rigid lithosphere, and compared the results to the virtual dome. The study's results showed that domes created on a bendy crust looked far more like the virtual pancake dome than those that formed on the rigid lithosphere. In particular, the flexible crust's domes had flat tops and very steep sides, characteristic of the pancake domes. This stems from the fact that the bulge around the dome prevents the lava from flowing further, causing it to accumulate, the researchers said. The bendy lithosphere's domes also had flexural signatures similar to that of Narina Tholus. However, the dimpling of the lithosphere couldn't alone explain the domes' features — the lava's density mattered too. Although low-density lavas produced domes with the right sort of shape, they created smaller crustal bulges than those found near the real-life pancake dome. Only lavas denser than 0.0867 lbs per cubic inch (2,400 kg/m3) — or over twice the density of room temperature water — produced both the correct dome shapes and flexural signatures. These high-density lavas were more than a trillion times as viscous as ketchup at room temperature and settled down to form the domes over hundreds of thousands of Earth-years. Nonetheless, the study's main drawback is that it used data from just the Narina Tholus dome. Borrelli hopes that upcoming missions to Venus — like NASA's VERITAS program — will provide higher resolution topography of the planet's surface, allowing the researchers to test their model with more data. RELATED STORIES —Heavy dusting of 'pineapple powder' paints Hawaii's volcanoes white after near-record snowfall — Earth from space —Venus may be geologically 'alive' after all, reanalysis of 30-year-old NASA data reveals —See Venus at its 'greatest brilliancy' this week — or wait until Sept. 2026 The new data could also help determine the exact type of lava that forms the pancake domes, a question the researchers were unable to answer. While most Venusian volcanoes appear to spew Mauna Loa-like basaltic lava, the researchers couldn't rule out rhyolitic and andesitic lavas, similar to those that spout from Mount St. Helens. Borelli said that finding diverse lava types on Venus would be interesting. "This can tell us about the planet's tectonic history, magmatic processes, and even the potential past presence of water."
Gizmodo
29-05-2025
- Science
- Gizmodo
The Strange Secret Behind Venus' Pancake Volcanoes
Venus is home to some of the weirdest volcanoes in the solar system—massive, flattened domes that look like planetary pancakes left to cool on the world's blistering surface. Scientists have long suspected these 'pancake domes' formed from thick, slow-moving lava. But a new study suggests that Venus' bendy crust may be crucial to the formation of the circular mounts. The research, published earlier this month in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, focused on one particularly enormous dome, Narina Tholus, which stretches nearly 90 miles (145 kilometers) across. Using old radar data from NASA's 1990s Magellan mission, researchers built a virtual model of the dome and tested what kind of lava—and what kind of crust—could produce such a geological flapjack. Turns out, lava alone doesn't explain the domes' strange shape. 'Our models show that flexure influences dome shape,' the researchers wrote, 'in the presence of more flexure, dome tops become flatter and sides steeper.' Just like the skin of more fleshy things, Venus' crust can dimple and deform when saddled with thick lava. When researchers simulated lava flowing over a bendy lithosphere, the molten rock stopped spreading and piled up, forming flat tops with steep sides—just like Venus' pancake domes. Crucially, this model also reproduced the crustal bulges spotted around some domes in previous studies. Still, not just any lava would do. Only ultra-dense lava—more than twice the density of water and over a trillion times as viscous as ketchup, as reported by Live Science, matched both the dome shape and the surrounding deformation. The researchers think such lava could take 'up to hundreds of thousands of Earth-years' to fully settle into these colossal structures. The team's model is based on just one dome, so it's not conclusive. But upcoming missions like NASA's VERITAS or DAVINCI will provide better topographic data to test their theory across more of Venus' thousands of volcanic features. Better understanding these features could yield more insights into the formation of the hellish planet, sometimes referred to as Earth's evil twin for the way its planetary evolution split off from the timeline that made our world wet, verdant, and rife with life.
