Tag: Electricity
Global copper demand outstrips supply, threatening electrification and industrial growth
Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines and Adam Charles Simon, University of Michigan
Demand for copper is surging because...
Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels,...
Ramesh Agarwal, Washington University in St. Louis
As AI data centers spring up across the country, their energy demand...
Renewable energy is cheaper and healthier – so why isn’t it...
Jay Gulledge, University of Notre Dame; University of Tennessee
You might not know it from the headlines, but there...
Electric fields steered nanoparticles through a liquid-filled maze – this new...
Daniel K. Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder and Ankur Gupta, University of Colorado Boulder
In the home, the lab...
Radioisotope generators − inside the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
Benjamin Roulston, Clarkson University
Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the...
Hurricane Helene power outages leave over 4 million in the dark...
Chuanyi Ji, Georgia Institute of Technology and Scott C. Ganz, Georgetown University
Hurricane Helene left more than 4 million...
India’s new mega-dam will roil lives downstream with wild swings in...
Parag Jyoti Saikia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Hey Rupam, open the door. Take this fish,” a...
Coca-Cola’s biggest challenge in greening its operations is its own global...
Bart Elmore, The Ohio State University
Coca-Cola is one of the world’s most widely recognized brands. Its global reach,...
EXPLORING NATURE
Hurricanes devastated Florida’s East Coast – then seagrass made an unexpected comeback
Stephanie Insalaco-Wyner, Southwestern University and Hannah V. Herrero, University of Tennessee
Florida’s Indian River Lagoon has been an ecosystem...
