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Will AI's Huge Energy Demands Spur a Nuclear Renaissance?

Will AI's Huge Energy Demands Spur a Nuclear Renaissance?

Contracts with Google and Amazon could help, but bringing new types of reactor online will take larger investments - and time.

Empowering Women - a Key to Both Sustainable Energy and Gender Justice

Empowering Women - a Key to Both Sustainable Energy and Gender Justice

Involving women in implementing solar energy technologies in developing countries not only has great climate impact. A new study published in Nature Energy and carried out by researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, shows that empowering women through energy care work can change unjust, gendered norms and long-lived injustices.

Energy Breakthrough: Can Nuclear Fusion Help Fuel the World?

Energy Breakthrough: Can Nuclear Fusion Help Fuel the World?

On Tuesday, the US Department of Energy announced a breakthrough in the generation of energy using nuclear fusion. Here's what you need to know about how it works.

Research Infrastructures Are About to Get Vocal About the Energy Crisis

Research Infrastructures Are About to Get Vocal About the Energy Crisis

The impact of the war in Ukraine is reverberating through research infrastructures, with rising energy costs and shortages of equipment manufactured abroad hitting these important shared facilities and forcing some to temporarily close their doors.

Empirically Grounded Technology Forecasts and the Energy Transition

Empirically Grounded Technology Forecasts and the Energy Transition

Decisions about how and when to decarbonize the global energy system are highly influenced by estimates of the likely cost. Here, we generate empirically validated probabilistic forecasts of energy technology costs and use these to estimate future energy system costs under three scenarios. Compared to continuing with a fossil fuel-based system, a rapid green energy transition is likely to result in trillions of net savings, even without accounting for climate damages or climate policy co-benefits.