Credit to Author: Molly Jerrard| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:38:03 +0000
The energy grid is confronting unprecedented challenges, including surging demand, aging infrastructure, and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events. A deep freeze across the East Coast recently generated an […]
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Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 04:18:48 +0000
The inevitable is occurring in the dead end space of Jetsons urban air mobility fantasies. Two more origami rotorcraft have left the vertiport for the great airplane graveyard in the sky as Volocopter disappears and Airbus drops its program. Volocopter was founded in 2011 in Bruchsal, Germany. Initially named e-Volo, … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:45:21 +0000
At present we’re in another wave of hysteria regarding data center energy demands, this time focused on concerns related to AI. It was all over Davos, for example. Many decarbonization folks, although not me, are deeply concerned about the electricity demands of the various large language models and generative AI … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:13:08 +0000
Language at its finest imparts information so humans can empower each other. It conveys expressions of emotions, warnings for self-preservation, offerings of social togetherness — and, most recently, misinformation/disinformation. The current global political climate is packed with rhetoric that persuades audiences to roil over perceived slights, including peer-reviewed evidence that … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:52:51 +0000
Late in 2024 I had the privilege of sitting down with one of the world’s leading experts on critical minerals, Gavin Mudd, director of the centre for critical minerals intelligence at the British Geological Survey. The second half of the conversation included a great deal on why we’re both optimistic … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 04:55:01 +0000
We’re not supposed to say it. We’re supposed to have nuanced, sophisticated views that respect everyone as intelligent, brilliant human beings — some of whom just need a little bit of support. But the fact is: humans are by and large stupid. We are a species full of misinformation, challenged … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 04:10:36 +0000
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has warned in a new report that financial markets could be disrupted by climate change and associated catastrophes in a number of ways. From costs rising slowly but significantly over time to sudden unexpected shocks having huge ripple effects, climate change is going to be … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 01:24:59 +0000
I have a habit of picking up books on China, as it’s the biggest country in the world that doesn’t tell everyone everything it’s doing all the time, unlike my southern neighbor, the United States. I’ve read books by Chinese authors, global diplomats, historians, and youth influencers about the country. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:52:39 +0000
A ban on fossil advertising in the Hague went into effect in January 2025. The city council approved the ban in September 2024. The Hague is the first city in the world to implement such a ban, which covers fossil fuel advertising in public spaces. A city council is by … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:55:41 +0000
It’s been a decade since I first wrote about Tesla’s approach to autonomous driving, comparing it to Google’s (now Waymo’s). At the time, my technical assessment based on my experience with both AI and robotics was that Tesla’s approach was superior. It still is, but it might need to pivot. … [continued]
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