‘Energy and Environment’ Archives
Is Climate Change Really Caused by Human Activity?
【能源与环境】 | Energy & Environment For Sale By Chen Ya, Jointing.Media, in Wuhan, 2024-11-04 Here's a conversation with Kimi, AI assistant from Moonshot AI. Chen Ya:What do you think caused the recent flooding in Spain? Kimi: The disaster in Spain this year, which resulted in significant loss of life and property, can be [...]
Why artificial intelligence and clean energy need each other
【能源与环境】 | Energy & Environment By Michael Kearney and Lisa Hansmann(MIT Technology Review),October 8. 2024 Chinese We are in the early stages of a geopolitical competition for the future of artificial intelligence. The winners will dominate the global economy in the 21st century. But what’s been too [...]
Sorry, AI won’t “fix” climate change
【能源与环境】 | Energy & Environment By James Temple(MIT Technology Review),September 28. 2024 Chinese OpenAI’s Sam Altman claims AI will deliver an “Intelligence Age,” but tech breakthroughs alone can’t solve global warming. In an essay last week, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, argued that the [...]
A ‘liquid battery’ advance
【能源与环境】 | Energy & Environment By John Tibbetts,Stanford Report,June 13th, 2024 Chinese A Stanford team aims to improve options for renewable energy storage through work on an emerging technology – liquids for hydrogen storage. Getty Images / tommy As California transitions rapidly to renewable fuels, it needs new [...]
This chart shows why heat pumps are still hot in the US
【能源与环境】 | Energy & Environment By Casey Crownhart, MIT Technology Review,2024-02-12 Chinese Sales slowed in 2023, but heat pumps are gaining ground on fossil fuels. STEPHANIE ARNETT/MITTR | ENVATO Heat pumps are still a hot technology, though sales in the US, one of the world’s largest markets, fell in 2023. Even with [...]
Can we use plastic waste to build roads, buildings, and more?
【能源与环境】 | Energy & Environment By Rob Jodan,Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment,2023-07-18 Chinese Stanford engineers Michael Lepech and Zhiye Li have a unique vision of the future: buildings and roads made from plastic waste. As part of a federal white paper evaluating the possibility of using [...]
Why North China has experienced frequent rainstorms in recent years
【能源与环境】 | Energy & Environment Edited by Shangu, Jointing.Media, in Wuhan,2023-08-12 For Sale Rainstroms are usually caused by mesoscale weather systems. Normally three conditions are required for a rainstorm to form: a sufficient water vapor supply, strong vertical rising conditions, and a certain duration of [...]
Chen Ya:Decluttering is a Practice of Death
【专栏】| Conlumists For Sale By Chen Ya, Jointing.Media, in Wuhan, 2023-04-05 Tulips in the yard (2023) SQM, Jointing.Media In the French novel "The Elegance of the Hedgehog", Paloma, an intellectual prodigy who is under 12 years old, contemplates suicide on her upcoming birthday, as she does not want to live the life of a doomed [...]
Billionaires Focusing on Greenland Island
【能源与环境】 | Energy & Environment By Yibai, Jointing.Media, in Shanghai,2022-08-18 For Sale Recently, news about the record-breaking melting of glaciers in Greenland appeared in financial news. There are reports that the world's top billionaires are going there for mining. The acceleration of ice and snow melting in Greenland [...]
Q&A: Harnessing the power of nature to address water and climate challenges
【能源与环境】 | Energy & Environment By Tom Johnson,Stanford Water in the West Program,2022-08-18 Chinese A Stanford water policy expert discusses how investments in nature could simultaneously help states bolster water supplies and achieve their climate goals. A beaver chews on vegetation in a beaver pond. (Image credit: [...]