Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 18:15:57 +0000
What does it look like to enhance electrical grid and community resilience through repurposing decommissioned mines into underground pumped storage facilities?
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 14:39:29 +0000
The hydrogen fuel cell is finding a home in new fast ferries in Norway and in giant mining trucks from Cummins and Komatsu.
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:10:00 +0000
Impossible Mining recently closed $10.1 million in seed funding and announced its key advisors. I recently interviewed the CEO of Impossible Mining, Oliver Gunasekara, for a two-part interview series that can be viewed here and here. According to the press release, the funding was led by Justin Hamilton and had additional participation from a select […]
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:10:37 +0000
This is part 2 of my interview with Impossible Mining CEO Oliver Gunasekara. In part 1, we talked about reinventing the mining industry, how the 2020 wildfire season inspired Oliver to start his company, and the three fundamental problems he is tackling with Impossible Mining. If you haven’t read part 1, you can go back […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 03:50:24 +0000
A partnership between the mining and geothermal industries could lead both toward a more lucrative and greener future. Across the United States there are more than 3 million abandoned mining wells. Each hole drilled into the ground offers more than just the ghost of minerals never found. There are layers of valuable data waiting for […]
Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 16:20:16 +0000
As our own Jennifer Sensiba recently pointed out, “There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch” is an established economic principle— but it’s also a pretty well established principle in physics, too. Basically, you can’t get something for nothing, and there’s no such thing as free lunch energy. Or … is there? NBC News […]
Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 16:20:02 +0000
North America’s auto industry is facing an existential threat during the switch to electric cars.
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 08 May 2022 19:11:32 +0000
In its 2021 Impact Report, Tesla announced that it visited the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Argentina in order to assess both environmental and societal risks. Tesla said that it has taken steps to complete social and environmental risk assessments by visiting both the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Argentina. You may remember […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 05 May 2022 03:47:27 +0000
There is enough nickel and lithium to meet the world’s electric car needs, but Europe’s policymakers must do more to shore up supplies of sustainably sourced clean-energy metals.
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 15:35:26 +0000
The country’s first female president ran on a campaign to eliminate strip mineral extraction, which consumes massive amounts of water, pollutes local water and air, ruins landscapes, and destroys habitats.