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Electricity Scarcity Meets Aluminum Tariffs, and American Citizens Pick Up the Bill

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A collision between AI data centers being built—in the current AI bubble and with full throated support by the Trump Administration—and aluminum smelters for electricity is no longer theoretical. Utilities across the United States are facing binding constraints on generation and transmission. When presented with competing requests for hundreds of … [continued]

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Drones, Diesel, & Policy: Two Countries, Two Agricultural Futures

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China’s rapid adoption of agricultural drones is one of the most interesting examples of technological divergence between two major food producers. The contrast is striking. Chinese pilots are now treating an amount of land with drones each year that is larger than the total farmland base, which means multiple drone … [continued]

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New Large-Scale Iron-Sodium Energy Storage System Passes The Test

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Fans of new sodium battery technology suffered a big disappointment earlier this year when the once-promising US energy storage startup Natron shuttered its doors. However, other US innovators have picked up the slack. That includes California-based Inlyte Energy, which has just completed a successful test of its full scale “salt … [continued]

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