President Trump and White House AI adviser David Sacksthis weekend defended the administration’s strategy of minimal regulation after the heads of the nation’s top artificial-intelligence companies endorsed a coordinated slowdown in the technology’s development. “We can put up guardrails, and we can do this and that, but I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it...
For years, China has been talking a big game about the Arctic. The country lies far from the Arctic Circle — more than 800 miles — but still, it has declared itself a “near-Arctic state.” It has teamed up with Russia on coast guard patrols in the Arctic Ocean and explored a flurry of resource and...
Casablanca is moving ahead with a major waste-to-energy project aimed at tackling two infrastructure pressures at once: rising municipal waste volumes and demand for dependable electricity generation. The planned facility, to be built northwest of the Mediouna landfill in the Casablanca-Settat region, is designed to process about 1.5 million tons of non-recyclable waste annually and...
New details of the Trump administration’s agreement to provide Saudi Arabia with a civilian nuclear program are spurring criticism that the landmark deal doesn’t do enough to head off the risk of nuclear proliferation. The text of the accord was shared with lawmakers last week along with a raft of related documents. It outlines a...
Leveraging Xylem's 'smart sewer' technology, the community of South Bend, Indiana, was able to save around $400 million in planned infrastructure spending... roughly one billion gallons of polluted water are now prevented from contaminating the St. Joseph River every year.
A shortage of plutonium could hold back a new generation of nuclear projects, with start-ups battling to secure the radioactive material given the limited supplies available to civilian projects. Plutonium, which cannot be mined, is a byproduct of spent uranium-based fuel used in reactors. Its huge explosive capacity makes it ideal for nuclear warheads, meaning...
An escalating trade war between the United States and Canada is once again threatening to ensnare the electric power sector at a time when consumers are already stretched thin. Canada is expected to announce retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods Tuesday after President Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs on about $20 billion in Canadian goods went into...
India is counting on increasing investments in battery storage to help abate the mounting curtailments of solar power that the grid is currently unable to absorb. Projects that are not equipped with battery storage are unlikely to find buyers, with almost 42 gigawatts of planned capacity yet to sign offtake contracts, Renewables Secretary Santosh Kumar...
Kenya has tripled its long-term target for expanding its renewable energy capacity to meet surging demand and support its industrialization, but that might not result in more affordable power for consumers. The plan calls for renewable power generating capacity of 5,500 megawatts, up from about 1,500 MW now. That would include 2,000 MW of nuclear...
Rather than causing disparate groups to come together to recognize the importance of all forms of energy, oil prices have resulted in some pushing harder for oil and gas and others pressing harder for solar, wind and batteries. This is a false dichotomy. Both are needed.
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