Energy and Natural Resources Industry

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 By imposing a tax on the amount of carbon used to manufacture products that the EU imports from other countries…

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 AI is getting to the point where it’s consuming more energy than small countries, and so researchers are trying to…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF China led the field in hypersonic weapons, and the USA in laser weapons, but now China has just leapfrogged the…

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 AI is getting incredibly energy hungry and that’s a problem for companies trying to keep their costs and carbon emissions…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is increasingly consuming huge quantities of energy and it’s unsustainable so researchers are trying to find solutions to the…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Mining crypto uses more energy than used by many nation states, but a new study thinks quantum computers could cut…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BREIF Room temperature superconductors would change almost every industry and they are the literal holy grail of materials.   Love the…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Sometimes old technologies modernised are better than the latest bleeding edge innovations, and this is yet another example.   Love…