What we know about ‘gigantic’ Alaska gas pipeline plan

President Donald Trump said this week that Japan and South Korea were looking to work with the United States on a “gigantic” natural gas pipeline in Alaska. Here’s what we know about the project, the latest twist in a long-stalled plan to build a 1,300-kilometer (800-mile) pipeline across the sprawling state to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) that will be shipped […]

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Glittering dreams: India’s big push for solar power

India is building what it boasts will be the world’s largest renewable power plant – Copyright AFP/File Money SHARMA Philippe ALFROY Vast lines of solar panels reflect the blazing sun in India’s western deserts, a dazzling ocean broken only by bristling wind turbines. India, along its desolate border with Pakistan, is building what it boasts […]

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How to Create a Future of Cheap Energy for All

When asked why they chose Tado, he said that customers’ main reason was, “I want to save money. The second reason is, I want to make the planet a better place. If we cannot fulfill the first one,” he stressed, “the second one becomes less relevant.” China seems to offer many solutions. Although coal consumption […]

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Liquid AI Is Redesigning the Neural Network

Artificial intelligence might now be solving advanced math, performing complex reasoning, and even using personal computers, but today’s algorithms could still learn a thing or two from microscopic worms. Liquid AIa startup spun out of MIT, will today reveal several new AI models based on a novel type of “liquid” neural network that has the […]

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Coal generates less than 50% of Australian electricity for first time

Winds exceeding 150 kilometres (93.2 miles) per hour in Australia’s southeast almost doubled the usual wind generation – Copyright AFP/File DAVID GRAY Laura CHUNG Coal generated less than 50 percent of Australia’s electricity in the last week of August, dropping to a record low as renewable production surged, data showed Wednesday. According to market monitor […]