Earth and Energy

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF LiON batteries have a variety of social and environmental issues ranging from they explode and are hard to recycle, to…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF LiON batteries have their issues, and as everyone uses more of them more researchers are trying to find new alternatives…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Training and running giant AI models like GPT4 and BARD use huge amounts of energy, and it’s all starting to…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Matter has to be come from somewhere, and now scientists have just observed it happen for the very first time….

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There’s plenty of waste, with only 9% of all waste being recycled, and now we can use it to produce…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Millions of people die every year from air pollution and India is now deploying outdoor air purification towers to try…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are many advantages to generating solar power in space and beaming it back to Earth, it’s cheap, unlimited, constant,…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF People are looking at ways to use nature to help clean the environment, and air purifying plants is one way…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world is at the beginning of a massive energy transition, and Musk wants his companies to play a central…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if you could just beam energy from space to anywhere on Earth? It would change global energy generation ……

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Technology always pushes boundaries and at the edge we’re finding new ways to generate electricity using the human body ……

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Stirling engines have many advantages over other forms of electricity generation, especially in space, and China have beaten NASA again…