Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf, Uses Sunlight to Produce Valuable Chemicals(newscenter.lbl.gov)

275 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 112 comments

Resource use matters, but material footprints are a poor way to measure it(ourworldindata.org)

16 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 2 comments

ZEUS – A new two-petawatt laser facility at the University of Michigan(news.engin.umich.edu)

102 points by voxadam 1 year ago | 98 comments

Is our death from a hydrogen sulfide event inevitable in climate warming? (2005)(psu.edu)

26 points by DrierCycle 11 months ago | 7 comments

Physicists Magnetize a Material with Light(news.mit.edu)

148 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 55 comments

Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water(news.mit.edu)

275 points by abathur 3 years ago | 162 comments

America didn't lose its rare earth industry, it sold it(lawfaremedia.org)

152 points by speckx 11 days ago | 73 comments

Lawfare article arguing the US sold off its rare earth industry and that financing to rebuild domestic supply should reflect China's strategic control risk.

Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability(electrek.co)

80 points by ciconia 26 days ago | 93 comments

Electrek article reporting that Tesla is taking on $30 billion in credit as the company nears unprofitability.

France pulls last gold held in US(mining.com)

561 points by teleforce 6 months ago | 304 comments

Mining.com news article reporting that France has withdrawn the last of its gold reserves held in the US, realizing a $15B gain.

Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy(helentoner.substack.com)

370 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 192 comments

Helen Toner's Substack essay criticizing OpenAI's Stargate UAE project and the framing of building AI supercomputers for autocratic governments.

America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom(washingtonpost.com)

441 points by voxleone 1 year ago | 607 comments

Washington Post business article on how US investment is flowing into an AI boom rather than a manufacturing revival.

Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find(techxplore.com)

513 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 403 comments

TechXplore news article on Stanford research finding carbon capture is more costly than switching to renewable energy.