A cloud above the clouds: US, China race to make space a computing platform
In 1957, the Soviet Union kicked off the Cold War’s space race, shocking the world by sending Sputnik,…
Advancing solar and wind penetration in China through energy complementarity
Grams, C. M., Beerli, R., Pfenninger, S., Staffell, I. & Wernli, H. Balancing Europe’s wind-power output through spatial…
Scientists Are Turning Ocean Trash Into Roads – and It’s Actually Working
Researchers in Hawaii are exploring an innovative way to turn discarded fishing nets and household plastic waste into…
Atom Computing Signs Letter of Intent for $100 Million in U.S. Quantum Funding
Insider Brief Atom Computing signed a Letter of Intent with the U.S. Department of Commerce for $100 million…
Why Corpus Christi faces a looming water shortage, and what might help
Corpus Christi, Texas, home to the nation’s largest oil export hub, and its surrounding Coastal Bend area are…
Soaring solar and a surge in hydro push more coal off the US grid
Last year, the first few months of data from the US grid suggested that fears of a data-center-driven…
Antarctic station discovers its shipping containers floating away on iceberg after blizzard
From the air, they look like seven little ants on a torn piece of white paper. But a…
Another first for renewables: Wind and solar…
It’s the first month when wind and solar combined to produce more electricity than natural gas did, per…
Sydney Harbour rubbish loads rise during Vivid, Seabin claims
The creators behind floating rubbish bins peppered around Sydney Harbour claim rubbish loads rise during the Vivid Sydney…
Complex animal life may be 10 million years older than scientists thought — and a new fossil site in northwestern Canada suggests it all started in the deep sea, not the shallow waters where most early fossils show up
The standard cultural framing of where animal life originated has, for most of the last century, placed the…
Fossil-Fuel Ban On Motorcycles Won’t Go Into Effect As Planned In Vietnam, And Honda May Have Played a Role
It was nearly a year ago that Vietnam’s capital city, Hanoi, announced an ambitious plan. Air quality is…
EU green economy booms as solar energy grows at record pace. What’s the most profitable sector?
As the war in Iran and global tensions continue to fuel uncertainty in energy markets, renewables have recently…