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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future? A Small Country with Large Heating Needs Big problems demand big solutions, and there is perhaps no bigger 21st-century problem than climate change.

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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

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What we need is something called cozy futurism, a concept I first encountered while reading a blog post by software engineer Jose Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente. Much of the motivation behind building new rockets or developing colonies on Mars is wrapped up in the rhetoric of our warming planet being something to escape from.

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Singapores A*Star Awards S$27.5M In Research Grants for Technologies for Sustainable Development

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The funding from A*STAR’s Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) will support research teams from A*STAR research institutes and local institutes of higher learning to develop solutions to manage environmental deterioration, pressures on natural resources and climate change brought on by rapid growth and urbanization.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. OpenAI certainly needed [cloud computing time] to build these models because they’re enormously expensive in terms of the computing needed.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

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And oil only seems cheap. When our country was attacked at Pearl Harbor, no one believed we could build 30,000 planes and tanks in just one year. But it will take decades to shift most freight from trucks to trains, design walkable communities, shorten our commutes, and build better mass transit and high-speed rail networks.

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Researchers show economic, environmental and grid-resilience benefits of converting diesel trains to battery-electric

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Improved battery technology plus access to cheap renewable electricity open the possibility of battery-electric rail. In diesel-electric trains, a diesel engine is connected to an alternator that then supplies electricity to electric motors connected to the locomotive axles.

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