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This is a genuinely incredible story: China found in U.S. archives an energy source that could power its entire future for 20,000 years - and they just made it work.
I'm not exaggerating. In the 1960s the U.S. - specifically Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee - invented a revolutionary type of nuclear reactor... See more
Arnaud Bertrandx.comDespite the fact that climate change is a pressing concern with material and immediate negative health effects, to put it mildly, it is not of interest to many of the people who are in control of where money and research attention are flowing. There is this idea that climate change can be easily solved, and we already know how to do it. So once... See more
Who Gets to Live Forever? A Conversation about Biotechno-solutionism with Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez
Security Check - Orion Magazine
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Oklo has completed the first successful end-to-end demonstration of the advanced recycling process in collaboration with @Argonne and @INL.
Supported by an award from @ARPAE and @GovNuclear, this milestone marks a crucial step toward commercial-scale fuel recycling, which is expected to cut our fuel costs by up to 80%... See more
Small modular fission reactors, improved solar technologies, and, in the longer term, nuclear fusion are all promising areas of research, as is how to economically store massive amounts of electricity on the grid.
Steven E. Koonin • Unsettled
Here, Richard Heinberg and his team at the Post-Carbon Institute return from their deep dives into economic trends and energy metrics to tell us “the Game is over” and we
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
PROJECT STARGATE ENERGY ANALYSIS
Project Stargate is going to need an enormous amount of power: each of the five Stargates needs about 5 gigawatts (about five million people's worth) of constant electricity for each ~$100b supercomputer project.
Let's break it... See more
Mark Nelsonx.comWe're thrilled to be part of making the State of the Transition 2024 website for Breakthrough Energy!
Founded by Bill Gates in 2015, @Breakthrough is dedicated to inspiring the world to develop and scale critical solutions for reaching net-zero emissions 🌍
14islands was responsible for the... See more
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