Category: Climate change
Can Geothermal Cooling Tame Data Centers’ Energy Appetite?
The world is increasingly run by data centers — huge, anonymous buildings that gobble up electricity and belch heat like angry dragons. Each click, stream, or swipe piles up more data in racks upon racks of humming servers. Yet few people realize just how thirsty these data dragons really are. … [continued]
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How China’s Sinopec Is Escaping The Gas Utility Death Spiral — And Why The West Should Follow
When Sinopec, China’s sprawling petroleum giant, decided to start drilling geothermal wells instead of oil wells, it was initially greeted with skepticism. Geothermal? Renewable energy? Surely not the first place you’d expect an oil-and-gas colossus to stake its future. But Sinopec wasn’t dabbling. True to form, the company went straight … [continued]
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Sea lamprey control program receives OK to rehire federal workers after initial scare
The Great Lakes sea lamprey control program has the OK to rehire three dozen federal employees it needs to combat the eel-like, invasive fish species.
UP gas generators would be classified as clean energy under bills in state House committee
Republican supporters say the generators use newer, cleaner technologies, and that should allow them to stay in use past deadlines for the state’s clean energy transition.
Geothermal & Heat Pumps Are Quietly Undermining Fossil Industrial Heat
Industrial heat has always been the awkward uncle at the decarbonization dinner table. Loud, a bit old-fashioned, and responsible for about 20% of global carbon emissions, but nobody really wants to talk about him. The climate conversation has been dominated by glitzier topics like electric vehicles and green hydrogen, the … [continued]
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