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Boston MA (SPX) Mar 04, 2024 - In 2016, at the huge Houston energy conference CERAWeek, MIT materials scientist Yet-Ming Chiang found himself talking to a Tesla executive about a thorny problem: how to store the output of solar panels and wind turbines for long durations.

Chiang, the Kyocera Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Mateo Jaramillo, a vice president at Tesla, knew that utilities lacked a cost-effective way to store renewable energy to cover peak levels of demand and... Читать дальше...

Hong Kong (AFP) March 1, 2024
Asian markets were largely higher on Friday following Wall Street gains driven by tech rallies and key US inflation data that met investors' expectations. While AI optimism helped buoy trading in New York, global markets diverged over questions about when the Fed may begin cutting interest rates. Fresh personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index figures helped shore up confidence

Beijing (AFP) March 1, 2024
China's top officials hold an annual gathering next week, offering a rare window into the ruling Communist Party's thinking as it tightens its grip in the face of dire economic headwinds. From a protracted property crisis to waning domestic spending, China's lawmakers face a litany of challenges as they hold their "Two Sessions". The meetings are not expected to see the unveiling of big-

New York (AFP) March 1, 2024
The emergence of AI bots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard has fueled a massive rise in share prices of chip-making juggernaut Nvidia, with its skyrocketing stock now making it the world's fourth biggest company by market capitalization. And for Wall Street, it's no bubble. Between the launch of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, for example, and the market close on February 23, Nvidia'

Washington DC (UPI) Mar 1, 2024
The Interior Department has earmarked $74.2 million to clean up abandoned, polluting mines in Kentucky, the Biden administration announced Thursday. The money will be used to address "dangerous mine shafts, reclaim unstable slopes, improve water quality by treating acid mine drainage and restore water supplies damaged by mining," a release from the Interior Department said. Kentu

Washington DC (SPX) Mar 01, 2024
Climate change is heating the oceans, altering currents and circulation patterns responsible for regulating climate on a global scale. If temperatures dropped, some of that damage could theoretically be undone. But employing "emergency" atmospheric geoengineering later this century in the face of continuous high carbon emissions would not be able to reverse changes to ocean currents, a new study