There’s a valley in rural southwest Utah that’s become a hub for renewable energy. Dozens of tall white wind turbines whoosh up in the sky. A sea of solar panels glistens in the distance. But the new kid on the block is mostly hidden underground. From the surface, Fervo Energy’s Cape Station looks more or less like an...
Amazon's backing of advanced nuclear signals a positive shift in how large-scale energy users approach energy needs and environmental ambitions.
Higher yield potential is driving adoption of digital farming, with two thirds of the famers using digital tools already and the same amount wanting to learn more about AI, according to Future Farming. This is one of the key findings from the 2024 Farmer Voice survey, a study among 2,000 farmers across Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Kenya, Ukraine,...
More than 60 percent of Americans recycle their paper products, and the paper industry has made strides forward in using recycled materials. However, paper still adds to our landfills more than any other material, making up an estimated 23 percent of America’s solid municipal waste. The Department of Energy estimates that the country’s paper waste...
Investing in more private-sector innovation for the disaster relief industry will help save lives and minimize the harmful effects of future extreme weather events.
Aquarry is turning pit mine lakes into massive carbon removal storage facilities.
Hal Bernton of Inside Climate News reports on Alaska’s potential for underground hydrogen. Alaska geologist Mark Myers hopes that underground reserves of hydrogen could fuel a new state energy industry. His dreams were launched by a well drilled in the African country of Mali that yields enough hydrogen to fuel a village electric power plant. ...
Joe Burns of Utility Dive writes on ARPA-E funding for data center cooling. Advanced Cooling Technologies will receive $1.1 million through two subcontracts with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. The funding is part of ARPA-E’s Cooling Operations Optimized for Leaps in Energy, Reliability and Carbon Hyperefficiency for Information Processing Systems program,...
Barbara Grady writes in Trellis about Chevron’s bet on green hydrogen. In Richmond, California, a city plagued by the carbon dioxide, soot and methane emitted by a massive oil refinery owned by Chevron Corp., a startup is building a waste-to-green hydrogen conversion project designed to produce zero-carbon hydrogen for transportation applications. If it succeeds, the...
Jordyn Grzelewski of Tech Brew reports on GM’s use of AI to boost performance in its automobiles. Every second counts on the racetrack. That’s one reason General Motors is integrating artificial intelligence into just about every aspect of its motorsports division. Tech Brew recently got a peek behind the scenes of where the machine learning...
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