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Tech billionaires aren’t the only ones fighting for control of AI. The US and China are too. The two world superpowers are competing with each other for everything from the intellectual know-how to design AI hardware and software to the raw materials that . . .
The Biden administration will give $1.5 billion to help build a vast new computer-chip factory in New York state as part of an effort to strengthen the country’s ability to mass-produce the brains of modern consumer and military electronics. The grant, formally unveiled Monday, is the third announced as . . .
Storage tanks are seen at Marathon Petroleum’s Los Angeles Refinery, which processes domestic & imported crude oil into California Air Resources Board (CARB), gasoline, diesel fuel, and other petroleum products, in Carson, California, U.S., March 11, 2022. Picture taken March 11, 2022. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Bing Guan/File photo
The power and transportation sectors tend to dominate headlines when it comes to cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution, but we need to tackle a large and growing emissions source to hit our climate goals: industry. U.S. industrial facilities are directly responsible for
Comment on this storyComment After a very slow start, fire season may be heating up in the United States. Meteorologists are warning of a potential jump in fire activity as heat waves combine with increased ignitions during the July Fourth holiday.
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A lot of studies have focused on the economic cost of global heating, caused by humans burning fossil fuels. A new study in Nature Sustainability “Quantifying the human cost of global warming,” by Timothy M. Lenton et al. instead concentrates on what heating will mean for the lives of human […]
NPR’s Steve Inskeep talks to Jude Blanchette of the Center for Strategic and International Studies about escalating rhetoric between China and the U.S. Copyright © 2023 NPR. All rights reserved. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an . […]
An estimated 2.3 million American homes rely on firewood for home heating. Like many energy sources, the cost of firewood has increased in recent years. (© Viktor Pravdica – stock.adobe.com). In many parts of the U.S., the months of January and February bring striking winter scenes of mountain peaks blanketed in white snow and streams and […]
This commentary is by Richard Davis, secretary/treasurer of the Windham County Heat Fund. He is a semiretired registered nurse and was a weekly columnist for the Brattleboro Reformer for 25 years. He now writes a weekly blog. I am sending the following letter to U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. A similar letter will be sent to […]
Oct 12 (Reuters) – U.S. consumers can expect to pay up to 28% more to heat their homes this winter due to surging fuel costs and a slightly colder weather forecast than last year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projected in its winter fuels outlook on Wednesday. Nearly half of U.S. households rely on […]