Topline While the Federal Reserve has made progress cooling the economy, there has still been “little convincing progress” in bringing down wage growth and high inflation, according to analysts at Goldman Sachs, who predict that it will remain difficult for the central bank to get surging prices under control without a recession. Though markets have […]
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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO – NOVEMBER 2008: A Congolese woman, displaced from a surrounding … [+] village, cooks with a fire inside Kibati camp in Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo on Nov. 26, 2008. Civilians on both sides of the front lines in eastern Congo are being killed, raped and abducted […]
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US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) poses with lawmakers after signing the Inflation … [+] Reduction Act after the House of Representatives voted 220-207 to pass it at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on August 12, 2022. – US lawmakers on August 12 adopted US President Joe Biden’s sprawling climate, tax, and […]
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This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. NurPhoto via Getty Images Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have found that coastal glaciers in Antarctica are melting at a faster rate than previously thought. When the […]
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The fastest-growing markets for U.S. LNG are all in Western Europe, in response to the Russian … [+] invasion of Ukraine. ustradenumbers.com The fastest-growing top 100 U.S. export from pre-pandemic 2019 is LN LN G and other natural gases, up almost 10 times as much in value as the overall average. This year, the fastest-growing […]
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The Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in California had been set to close in 2025, but because of rising … [+] energy demand, some are reconsidering that timeline Bettmann Archive After initially exponential growth, nuclear power in the U.S. has plateaued in recent years, but growing electricity demand could be about to change that. In 2021, […]
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Virtually all wind turbines, which produce more than 5 percent of the world’s electricity, are controlled as if they were individual, free-standing units. In fact, the vast majority are part of larger wind farm installations involving dozens or even hundreds of turbines, whose wakes can affect each other. Now, engineers at MIT and elsewhere have […]
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WASHINGTON, DC – Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) leaves the Senate Chamber with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) … [+] following a vote in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021 in Washington, DC. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Last weekend, Senate Democrats passed one of the largest pieces of climate […]
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Elon Musk says the Tesla Semi, originally due by late 2019, finally arrives this year. Tesla The market for electric trucks is just starting to take shape but Nikola and Tesla are making moves to position themselves as key players in clean commercial vehicles: Nikola is getting a new CEO with extensive automotive experience as […]
Read MoreDo you have the need? The need for speed? Can you tell I’m the absolute last person to see Top Gun: Maverick? Anyway, if you’re constantly in need of that afternoon coffee or that double shot of espresso—or if you just lack the general ~zest~ you used to have upon waking (fuck aging)—it might be […]
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It is a problem that has beguiled scientists for a century. But, buoyed by a $625,000 Distinguished Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE), Matteo Bucci, an associate professor in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), hopes to be close to an answer. Tackling the boiling crisis Whether you’re heating a […]
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President Biden plans to use upcoming travel to tout the $740 billion climate, health and tax reconciliation bill passed by Senate Democrats on Sunday, a top White House official said. “The president will — our entire team will be out making the case,” National Economic Council Director Brian Deese said on CNN’s “New Day” on […]
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The reconciliation bill now pending in Congress, known as Manchin-Schumer, (or Schumer-Manchin) … [+] assures that the lavish federal tax credits for wind- and solar-energy become permanent. (The photo of Joe Manchin, left, and Schumer, right, was taken in 2016) Credit; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images On Thursday, Arizona Sen. […]
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Growing up on a farm in Texas, there was always something for siblings Gia Schneider ’99 and Abe Schneider ’02, SM ’03 to do. But every Saturday at 2 p.m., no matter what, the family would go down to a local creek to fish, build rock dams and rope swings, and enjoy nature. Eventually the […]
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Topline Shares of electric vehicle maker Tesla rallied in after-hours trading Thursday as the company won shareholder approval for a 3:1 stock split, the second such move in around two years, as the world’s most valuable automaker looks to make its stock more affordable. Tesla’s stock has risen over 30% since announcing the proposed stock […]
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Beyoncé Officially Removes Kelis’ Sample Off Renaissance Album; Monica Lewinsky Calls for Similar Move in 2013 Song Advertisement The particular line in the song, Bey is referring to a man who “Monica Lewisnky’d all on my gown.” However, folks online were quick to call out her hypocrisy, noting that she has “rap song muse” in […]
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Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar MCKITTRICK, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 03: The sun sets beyond pumpjacks in the Belridge oil field on … [+] November 03, 2021 near McKittrick, California. The Biden administration pledged to cut methane emissions from oil and gas production yesterday. In California, 35,000 oil and gas wells sit idle, many of which […]
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It was just a piece of junk sitting in the back of a lab at the MIT Nuclear Reactor facility, ready to be disposed of. But it became the key to demonstrating a more comprehensive way of detecting atomic-level structural damage in materials — an approach that will aid the development of new materials, and […]
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Beyoncé Officially Removes Kelis’ Sample Off Renaissance Album; Monica Lewinsky Calls for Similar Move in 2013 Song G/O Media may get a commission 28% Off Apple AirPods Pro Wireless Earbuds Music+These are the pinnacle of Apple AirPod design, and feature active noise cancelling, a transparency mode for when you need to hear what’s around you, […]
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Life comes at you fast. And Kelis might be getting what she wanted. Last week, when Beyoncé’s Renaissance came out and immediately became the most talked-about album in the world, Kelis made it abundantly clear that she did not grant permission for samples — albeit very brief ones — from her songs to be used […]
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A flag protesting nuclear power during a rally in favor of tougher pollution restrictions outside an … [+] Environmental Protection Agency hearing, Tuesday, July 29, 2014, in Atlanta. Copyright 2014 AP. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Less than one week ago, Senators Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer […]
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As scientists push the boundaries of machine learning, the amount of time, energy, and money required to train increasingly complex neural network models is skyrocketing. A new area of artificial intelligence called analog deep learning promises faster computation with a fraction of the energy usage. Programmable resistors are the key building blocks in analog deep […]
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23 February 2022, Netherlands, Rotterdam: Tanks in the port of Rotterdam Photo: Federico … [+] Gambarini/dpa (Photo by Federico Gambarini/picture alliance via Getty Images) dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images This article is the fourth in a series on the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022. The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and […]
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ODESSA, TEXAS – MARCH 13: An oil pumpjack setup in a residential neighborhood pulls oil from the … [+] Permian Basin oil field on March 13, 2022 in Odessa, Texas. The Permian Basin is the largest petroleum-producing basin in the United States. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Getty Images Earlier this month BP released its […]
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Oil and gas from the Permian basin, Texas. Sygma via Getty Images Today’s news includes the threat that Russia will continue the recent cuts in gas supplies that Gazprom, the state gas company, has imposed. Moscow may not fully reconnect the Nord Stream 1 pipeline that carries gas under the Baltic Sea to Germany at […]
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When high school senior Tuba Balta emailed MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) Director Dennis Whyte in February, she was not certain she would get a response. As part of her final semester at BASIS Charter School, in Washington, she had been searching unsuccessfully for someone to sponsor an internship in fusion energy, a topic that […]
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Perovskites hold promise for creating solar panels that could be easily deposited onto most surfaces, including flexible and textured ones. These materials would also be lightweight, cheap to produce, and as efficient as today’s leading photovoltaic materials, which are mainly silicon. They’re the subject of increasing research and investment, but companies looking to harness their […]
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The boiling of water or other fluids is an energy-intensive step at the heart of a wide range of industrial processes, including most electricity generating plants, many chemical production systems, and even cooling systems for electronics. Improving the efficiency of systems that heat and evaporate water could significantly reduce their energy use. Now, researchers at […]
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Last fall, a team of five senior undergraduate nuclear engineering students met once a week for dinners where they took turns cooking and debated how to tackle a particularly daunting challenge set forth in their program’s capstone course, 22.033 (Nuclear Systems Design Project). In past semesters, students had free reign to identify any real-world problem […]
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The world’s third largest carbon emitter after China and the United States, India ranks seventh in a major climate risk index. Unless India, along with the nearly 200 other signatory nations of the Paris Agreement, takes aggressive action to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius relative to preindustrial levels, physical and financial losses […]
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We’re alerted by news organizations now and then about an impending “massive solar flare” that might fry the Internet or even the electric grid. In theory, it’s possible, but there’s also a click-bait factor to this gloom and doom coverage. But first, what’s a solar flare? Solar flares are immense bursts, or eruptions, of electromagnetic […]
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