Day: July 2, 2023
Why The U.S. Has Become The Blackout Capital Of The Developed World
Rolling blackouts, freezing homes and skyrocketing electricity prices. A few decades ago, power outages in vast swathes of the United States were relatively rare and would normally be seen as black swan events. Unfortunately, mass blackouts have now be…
NASA Sets Out To Solve The Universe’s Greatest Mystery: Dark Energy
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are teaming up to explore one of the biggest puzzles of the Universe: dark energy. A new space telescope, Euclid, which will explore the dark Universe, is launching in July on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape…
“Mystery Middlemen” Make Billions From Sanctioned Russian Crude
One year ago, conventional wisdom was that Western nations would throttle Russian oil exports to starve Putin’s war machine, depriving the Kremlin of much needed cash, tipping the scales of global oil markets into a state of demand imbalance, and sendi…
New Advances In Lithium Air Batteries Promise Greener Future
Shibaura Institute of Technology scientists have developed a faster more efficient way to synthesize CoSn(OH)6, a powerful catalyst required for high-energy lithium air batteries. The research paper has been published in the journal Sustainable Energy …
Yale Study: ESG Investing Isn’t Doing Much For The Environment
When companies with poor environmental credentials are starved of capital thanks to investors obsessed with ESG, they become dirtier to avoid bankruptcy, writes Matthew Lesh ESG or environmental, social and governance investing is facing troubles. High…