Environment
What’s the Future of Direct Air Capture?
While the technology is still in its relative infancy, cost will be a determining factor for the future of DAC. Policies that increase competition and instill market discipline will help.
Innovation & Technology
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Environment
Investments in Carbon Dioxide Removal are Yielding Innovative Results
Spurring private sector innovation requires supporting carbon removal technologies in their early stages, and that means supporting the vital work that programs like the Carbon Negative Shot aim to accomplish.
Environment
The Economist’s 2024 Sustainability Week Examines Human Flourishing and Environmental Progress
The Economist’s 2024 Sustainability Week offers a chance to gain unique insights and strategies for how firms meet consumers’ needs, boost productivity, and meet sustainability goals.
Energy
Welding method drastically cuts time to make mini nuclear reactors
"The technique is already being used in the automotive and aerospace industries to produce smaller, relatively low-value components. Forgemasters is the first to use the welding technology to build a full-scale SMR pressure vessel, which weighs about 57 tonnes, has a diameter of three metres and walls with a thickness of 200 millimetres."
Energy
How AI is Helping Nations Balance Their Power Grids
AI-optimized systems will be crucial in ensuring a smooth and effective green energy addition.
Environment
Green Horizons: Three Climate Solutions Set to Flourish in 2024
As we step into 2024, these three climate solutions are ready to create pathways to lower emissions and promote economic development.
Energy
AI is Streamlining Permitting for Solar Projects Across the U.S.
Artificial intelligence is well poised to play a crucial role in optimizing and expediting the deployment of innovative, trailblazing solutions.
Infrastructure
Cement Has a Major Carbon Problem. AI Can Help.
Artificial intelligence startups are offering viable solutions to lower the industry's carbon footprint.
Energy
Lyten’s 3D Graphene Could Build a Low-Carbon Future
Lyten isn’t just absorbing carbon and creating hydrogen fuel while they build a new supermaterial—they are changing the future of environmental innovation.
Conservation
How Artificial Intelligence is Being Harnessed to Predict and Prevent Wildfires
Artificial intelligence is creating ways to save lives, reduce damage, and preserve our ecosystems.