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In the early 1990s, I was part of a team of about 30 engineers working in Washington, D.C., on its power loop—a 500-kilovolt transmission line looping around our nation’s capital through Virginia and Maryland. We...
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“Thirty DeLoreans” is how Otto Lynch describes it. One of America’s top grid experts, he says the energy equivalent of 30 Back to the Future time machines—or 35 gigawatts—is what America needs by the end of this decade to power...
In the early 1990s, I was part of a team of about 30 engineers working in Washington, D.C., on its power loop—a 500-kilovolt transmission line looping around our nation’s capital through Virginia and Maryland. We spent six months on that...
Often called the world’s largest machine, the power grid is an engineering marvel that helped supercharge modernity and bring electricity to homes and businesses. Cellular networks come close to the grid in size and importance. They revolutionized communications, banking, transportation,...
Needless repetition is something Apurba Tribedi cannot abide. It was a formative frustration: every year, the river near his childhood home in Malda, India, burst its banks. The floodwaters washed out local houses, destroyed possessions, and sometimes forced families to...
At Google AI for the Planet, an event recently held during London Climate Action Week in the British capital, Google’s global leaders in sustainability came together to explore a pressing question: How can artificial intelligence (AI) help us create a...
A major economic shift is underway: the rise of artificial intelligence. From tools like ChatGPT to AI-driven infrastructure maintenance, the rapid adoption of AI is poised to reshape how we work and how society operates. Although we’re still in the...
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...
Seequent’s Software Enhances Geothermal Energy at The Geysers 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...
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...