Topical highlights from 3 decades covering energy, environment, science & technology
Power Grids // Spectrum This Low-Cost Stopgap Tech Can Fix the Grid // The New York Times Prosecute Armies That Attack Power Grids // The Atlantic How a Plan to Save the Power System Disappeared // Scientific American Solar and Wind Power Could Ignite a Hydrogen Energy Comeback // Spectrum China’s Ambitious Plan to Build the World’s Biggest Supergrid // Spectrum Why Southern China Broke Up Its Power Grid // Discover Averting the Blackout of the Century // Spectrum San Francisco’s Secret DC Grid
Energy & Climate Politics // The Hill Times Jump-starting a Canadian power grid // The Tyee They Had to Break the Law to Try to Save Humanity // InvestigateWest A Lost Decade: How Climate Action Fizzled In Cascadia // Grist ‘It just goes into a black hole’ // Nature Getting Political // InsideClimate News States Using Social Cost of Carbon // Spectrum Japan’s Post-Fukushima Power Struggle // Earthzine Power Potential and Pitfalls on the Congo // Tech Review Carbon Trading on the Cheap // Spectrum Le Roi Nucléaire to be Dethroned // NewScientist Gamechangers ENERGY
Renewable Energy // Spectrum Why We Need Turbines That Float // Hakai The Hot Mess of Hawai‘i’s Renewable Power Push // Scientific American Europe Stores Renewable Electricity in Gas Pipes // New Scientist Finally we can power the planet on renewables alone – here’s how // Technology Review Hawaii’s Solar Push Strains the Grid // Spectrum Rooftop Solar To Stabilize the Grid // CBC News Peace River a wind-power success story
Cities // Nature Geothermal networks let cities warm and cool as one // Undark A Timber-Based Building Method Draws Praise, and Skeptics // Ensia Dysfunction by Design // Architectural Record Building-integrated Wind Power: A Force of Nature // Spectrum Frankfurt’s Electronically Controlled Exteriors
Mobility // Anthropocene Shipping solar power at the speed of a freight train // Nature How to rescue biofuels from a sustainable dead end // Tech Review Hydrogen: The Dream that Won’t Die // Spectrum Deflating the Air Car // Spectrum China’s Cyclists Take Charge // Tech Review Hybrids’ Rising Sun // Tech Review Life in the Fast Lane
Climate & Environmental Science // Anthropocene Making CO2 to Combat Climate Change // TakePart The Unlikely Refuge for the West’s Most Adorable and Endangered Fox // Spectrum Satellites and Simulations Track Missing Methane // Tech Review Many, Many Smoking Guns // Discover The Easiest Way to Fight Global Warming? // Spectrum Neptune Rising
Nuclear Energy & Fossil Fuels // Tech Review Alberta’s Oil Sands Heat Up // Tech Review A Call for Safer Handling of Nuclear Waste // Tech Review How Technology Failed in the Gulf // Spectrum Nuclear Wasteland // Tech Review Carbon Dioxide for Sale // Spectrum King Coal Eats its Vegetables // Alberta Views Digging a Carbon Hole for Canada
Health & Medicine // The Tyee In Outbreaks Some Health Workers Bolt. BC Is Trying to Prevent It // Tech Review Saving Lives with Living Machines // Tech Review Blood from a Chip // Scholastic Choices The Fumes of Death
Tech // Spectrum Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption by 99 Percent // Spectrum The Ridiculous Amount of Energy It Takes to Run Bitcoin // Tech Review Nanotech by the Numbers // Tech Review Sewer Bots // Tech Review Creating Movie-quality Graphics in Real Time // Tech Review Programming Advanced Materials
Chemicals // Chemical Week Safety Investigation Board May Rise from the Ashes // Chemical Week Campaign 2000: Executives Ante Up for Access to Bush // Chemical Week Endocrine Disruptors: Sensationalism or Science?
Peter Fairley 