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Analysis · Climate
AI campuses need backup power that is quiet, clean, and always on. Fuel cells promise all three, but most run on natural gas and hydrogen's round-trip losses are brutal.
Brief · Climate
The Living Planet Report also logs recoveries, like wild tigers up more than 70% in 15 years.
Analysis · Climate
The electrical grid is failing under modern demand. Here is how software is aggregating millions of home batteries and EVs into massive Virtual Power Plants to save it.
Analysis · Climate
Lithium is expensive, politically constrained, and prone to catching fire. Sodium is literally everywhere. Here is why the battery industry's next massive shift is built on table salt.
Analysis · Climate
We have been promised solid-state batteries for a decade. Now, companies like QuantumScape and Toyota are finally scaling them. Here is why the liquid lithium era is ending.
Analysis · Climate
AI's insatiable thirst for electricity is forcing Microsoft, Google, and Amazon to do the unthinkable: bringing dormant nuclear power plants back from the dead.