AI's excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions
Water is needed for development, production and consumption, yet we are overusing and polluting an unsubstitutable resource and system.
Mar 22, 2024
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Water is needed for development, production and consumption, yet we are overusing and polluting an unsubstitutable resource and system.
Mar 22, 2024
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Although a majority of Europeans support the energy transition in principle, local opposition to necessary infrastructure projects is on the rise. What could be done to smooth the future growth of renewables in Europe? In ...
Mar 13, 2024
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Clean-energy projects were the largest driver of China's economic growth in 2023, with Beijing investing nearly as much in decarbonization infrastructure as total global investment in fossil fuels, according to a report released ...
Jan 25, 2024
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Natural disasters are occurring more frequently, causing damage to the power grid and leading to widespread and prolonged power outages. Leveraging mobile power sources has shown potential in lessening the impact of these ...
Nov 21, 2023
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Geothermal power has a lot of promise as a renewable energy source that is not dependent on the sun shining or the wind blowing, but it has some challenges to wide adoption. One of these challenges is that there are a limited ...
Nov 14, 2023
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As renewable energy sources like wind and solar ramp up, they can be used to sustainably generate hydrogen fuel. But implementing such a strategy on a large scale requires land and water dedicated to this purpose.
Sep 21, 2023
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The availability of a broad-scale and well-performing charging network by 2035 offers potential to increase new registrations of battery electric trucks to 100%. The key entry point for ensuring the market success of zero-emission ...
Aug 29, 2023
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China has set itself the goal of reaching its peak of carbon dioxide emissions in 2030 and thereafter to reduce emissions to reach carbon neutrality by 2060. To achieve this, it needs to increase photovoltaic (PV) and wind ...
Jul 26, 2023
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Offshore wind projects are facing an economic crisis that erased billions of U.S. dollars in planned spending this weekâjust as the world needs clean energy more than ever.
Jul 24, 2023
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Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) want access to a location near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. They want to clarify why there are discrepancies between different measurements of the ...
Jun 15, 2023
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