This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Most Americans loathe data centers. Recent polling found that Democrats and Republicans alike would oppose having one in their neighborhood, and hundreds of communities across the country have fought against them, citing fears about noise, water...
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Bartłomiej Orzeł The energy transition offers an opportunity for the right-wing opposition - but one they risk wasting.
His climate plan has provoked a furious response from NDP leaders in Alberta and Saskatchewan
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Researchers at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources have developed a plasma-based process that converts wet coffee grounds into coal-grade biochar in under 90 seconds, with no pre-drying required. The system, described in Chemical Engineering Journal, uses high-temperature plasma flames to process moisture-rich biomass directly, with the water content working as part of…
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Beavis and Butt-Head Become A.I. Tech Bros
Will A.I. finally be able to help Beavis and Butt-Head score? It did everybody else’s homework; they deserve something!
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Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off
A campaign has begun to get two large transmitter masts listed, after the BBC’s Long…
On 24 June, Laos reinstated higher excise taxes on fuel, restoring regular gasoline tax from 15 percent to 25 percent and increasing diesel tax from 0 percent to 5 percent, according to a notice issued by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The adjustment marks a return toward normal fuel taxation after emergency tax cuts […]
Six oil and gas operators were facing $11 million in fines for falsified reports involving soil, groundwater and organic contaminant sampling tests
"We are building a new security architecture for Europe," says Poland's energy minister.
Nearly 80% of global data centers face climate risks such as heat, drought, and flooding, threatening hyperscaler operations and cloud reliability.
Data centers use water to cool their massive arrays of computer servers. A state agency sent out a survey to figure out how much, but less than a third of the companies responded.
Opposition was most intense in rural counties. Texas is poised to be the No. 1 market for data centers in the U.S., with the most planned projects of any state.
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RFC 9958: Post-Quantum Cryptography for Engineers
The advent of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) would render state-of-the-art, traditional public key algorithms deployed today obsolete, as the mathematical assumptions underpinning their security would no longer hold. To address this, protocols and…
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This article focuses on selecting the best open source software for physics and physics education. Hopefully there will be something for interest here for all budding physicists.
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State of the Union: The country sources around 90 percent of its oil through the Strait of Hormuz.
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State of the Union: Import prices rose 6.7 percent year over year, driven primarily by rising fuel prices.
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Parsons, Kansas, is larger than the “haphazard hamlet” Truman Capote visited to write _In Cold Blood,_ but not by much. With a population of about 9,600, residents largely pass the time hunting, fishing, and watching high school football. (Under head coach Jeff Schibi, the team is reportedly on the up.) The few tourists sucked into city limits are usually on their way to visit Big Brutus, the…
Nearly 750 million people face hunger today, according to the U.N. World Food Program. And by 2050, global demand for food is expected to increase by 50 percent from 2010 levels, the World Resources Institute says.
A smart agriculture special-issue report recently released by the IEEE Smart Agri-Food Initiative says meeting the demand will require technology to expand food production. The…
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The US-Israeli war on Iran is a turning point, not just in the balance of forces between the powers, but also in the world economy. It is bringing to the fore all the contradictions that have been accumulating over the past period: inflation, debt, and the looming recession.
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State of the Union: The ECB becomes the first major central bank to raise rates to combat inflation.
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Fuel prices in Laos have declined steadily over the past two months, bringing some relief to motorists as inflation and transport costs ease. But for many households, fuel remains a major expense, and some consumers are beginning to consider electric vehicles as a long-term way to reduce transport costs. As of 11 June, premium and […]
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright was caught off guard Wednesday when he learned about President Trump’s statements earlier in the day about inflation and a “secret mission” on oil amid the war in Iran.
Democratic Representative Emilia Sykes grilled Wright during his testimony before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, asking him if he loves inflation. Dumbfounded, Wright said…
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright admitted to Congress Wednesday that he made a false social media post about the Iran war in March.
While testifying before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Representative Suhas Subramanyam asked Wright about a post he made in March on X “that the U.S. Navy had successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz to…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Monterey Park voted 86 percent to 14 percent last Tuesday to permanently ban data centers from the city. It is the first US city to do it through a ballot initiative. Campaign organizer Steven Kung called it “a landslide victory.” On the reasons: “The noise pollution, the air pollution, […]
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New details of the $100 million investment into America First Refining by one of the richest men in Asia reveal the role Donald Trump Jr. has played.
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The US Army is funding quantum control research on vibronic effects in ultrathin materials to advance energy generation and computing capabilities.
How to lose friends and influence people.
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Researchers in Australia have created the largest map of cosmic magnetic fields ever assembled, revealing the invisible forces that shape galaxies across the Universe.
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