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Ithaca is a picturesque town in upstate New York famous for its waterfalls and gorges, and the world-renowned Cornell University. The area has long been hailed as a beacon of progress. Cornell’s students and scientists,...
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Ithaca is a picturesque town in upstate New York famous for its waterfalls and gorges, and the world-renowned Cornell University. The area has long been hailed as a beacon of progress. Cornell’s students and scientists, for example, helped discover that...
Clarity is invaluable for a project as staggeringly complex as the international fusion experiment. The project, also known as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), is being built in France and is one of the most ambitious scientific collaborations in...
Northwestern California’s stunning Mayacamas Mountain Range is home to the world’s largest geothermal field. Since 1960, The Geysers region has continuously generated geothermal energy—heat generated by the Earth’s hot interior—by harnessing steam from deep underground wells. Steam is piped overland...
The tech industry’s need for sustainable and reliable energy sources has never been more pressing. “As power-intensive generative AI training and inference continues to grow faster than other uses and applications, global data center electricity consumption could roughly double” by...
Not entirely out of sight, but almost always out of mind, cell towers quietly form the backbone of modern communication, powering everything from texts and phone calls to TikTok videos. Some topping 200 feet, they can stand tall like sentinels...
Paris shines in the popular imagination as the City of Light. But its allure also flickers deep underground. There are the sewers made immortal by Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables and by Éléonore, an 8-foot Nile crocodile caught living there in...
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the U.S. Congress were looking for ways to fight the Great Depression, they drafted the Rural Electrification Act. Passed in 1936, the bill brought electricity to rural America and helped spark an economic recovery....
Aerial view of the Diablo Dam in Washington. It’s one of the three facilities located on the Skagit River listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Courtesy of HDRWe love epic engineering sagas. TV shows like Modern Marvels, Impossible...
While the rise in energy prices worldwide, as well as the prices at the pumps, is receiving a significant amount of attention, there is little affection for the global operators. They are certainly making the most of a high-demand market,...
