by Susan Keown | Jan 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
Vince Beiser (@VinceBeiser) writes for the Sierra Club about the impact of lithium mining on environments worldwide, through the lens of the Atacama Desert of Chile, which is home to one of the world’s biggest lithium operations. The world must vastly increase its...
by Susan Keown | Aug 3, 2021 | ScienceWire
Bitcoin is responsible for 0.5% of all the electricity consumed in the world — but why? Clayton Aldern (@compatibilism), in a video for Grist, explains how blockchain works and why bitcoin’s blockchain implementation burns so much energy. He explores this...
by Chris Tachibana | Sep 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
Wayt Gibbs asks a pertinent question, in light of post-Harvey gas shortages and climate change conversations: “How Much Energy Will the World Need?” Wayt does the calculations for Anthropocene. He also talks to Michael E. Brown (“the guy who killed...
by Chris Tachibana | Dec 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
In a report for Science, Wayt Gibbs tells how physicists in New Mexico are ramping up their ability to produce a big bang. These scientists aren’t making a bomb, though. They’re developing reactors to produce fusion energy. It’s promising, but not without risks, Wayt...
