We must embrace nuclear energy for what it is: the safest, cleanest, most reliable form of energy at our disposal.
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Could Desalination Present a Solution to Rising Sea Levels?
Opening the door to private investment in desalination could mitigate rising sea levels and water scarcity.
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Energy Won’t Stay in the Ground
Halting U.S. energy production will not stop the world from consuming more energy.
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Biochar is a proven form of carbon removal. Can it scale up?
"Part of the challenge is that biochar doesn’t exactly fit into the standard American farming curriculum. It’s neither a fertilizer nor a pesticide, and it doesn’t supercharge crop production. 'It’s not something that’s likely to double yield,' said Milton McGiffen, a cooperative extension specialist and agricultural researcher at the University of California, Riverside. Still, McGiffen said, biochar’s benefits are clear, particularly when it’s added to soils that have a lot of sand or clay and struggle to hold on to water and nutrients."
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The U.S. Urgently Needs a Bigger Grid. Here’s a Fast Solution.
"In many places, upgrading power lines with advanced conductors could nearly double the capacity of existing transmission corridors at less than half the cost of building new lines, researchers found. If utilities began deploying advanced conductors on a nationwide scale — replacing thousands of miles of wires — they could add four times as much transmission capacity by 2035 as they are currently on pace to do."
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Rep. Miller-Meeks Outlines Her Priorities for the Conservative Climate Caucus
Congresswoman Miller-Meeks is outlining a strong path to bring the Conservative Climate Caucus and pragmatic, pro-growth climate solutions forward.
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Can scientists save your morning cup of coffee?
"Temperatures are rising and rainfall patterns shifting across South America, central Africa and South-East Asia, where most of the world’s coffee is grown. By the end of the century between 35% and 75% of the coffee-growing land in Brazil, the world’s biggest producer, could be unusable, according to a recent paper published in Science of the Total Environment by Cássia Gabriele Dias, an agricultural engineer at the Federal University of Itajubá, in Brazil."
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A Gates-Backed Startup Is Making Fuel From Water and Carbon Dioxide
"On any given day, Infinium produces nearly 8,300 liters of what’s known in the industry as electrofuel or e-fuel and distributes it to customers across the US. A slogan on the company’s trucks reads: 'Clean fuels made from renewable energy and carbon dioxide.'"
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U.S. Rare Earth Independence from China Still Has Years to Go, Experts Say
Decades of one-size-fits-all environment regulation and policy inattention are part of the reason for the increased dependency. Even with the United States holding vast mineral reserves worth trillions of dollars, America is now 100 percent dependent on imports for some 17 key minerals.
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Brimstone is Accelerating Climate-Friendly Cement
Brimstone is at the forefront of bringing carbon-free cement to market.
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