@brichapman@mastodon.socialA breakthrough in green hydrogen just happened in South Australia. Sparc Hydrogen achieved sustained hydrogen production using only sunlight and water—no electrolyzers, no electricity grid needed.
Their photocatalytic process uses concentrated solar energy to split water directly. With green hydrogen markets projected to hit $1.4 trillion annually by 2050, this could be the scalability breakthrough the industry needs.
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzAgrizero guy on RNZ is missing the point. Methane emissions is just a part of the issue. So disingenuous. Reducing them does *nothing* to reduce nitrogen pollution from fertilizer and effluent from the Dairy Industry. They've destroyed most of Canterbury waterways and water supply. We need fewer cows. Like half.
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.deTalking #water in Hsinchu: the biggest reservoir and cleanest stream here in the mid-north of #Taiwan is connected with the Science Park. It serves the #semiconductor industry. A bit is for agricu…
@cdarwin@c.imScaling up AI requires staggering amounts of power and water
— especially when considering that many areas are already dealing with strained grids or drought conditions.
Even when optimized, a single hyperscale facility can draw as muchpower as a mid-sized city
and millions of gallons of water annually.
Professor Romany Webb, deputy director of Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, explained the challenge:
"Data centers are incred…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialAI use of water and energy is an issue. And the industry's bloviating smokescreens don't help us understand the issue.
All of the ways companies cause GHG gas emissions - from direct emissions on site to emissions from power generation off-site to emissions in their supply chain & from product usage are addressed in the #GreenhouseGasReportingProtocol .
@paulwermer@sfba.socialAI use of water and energy is an issue. And the industry's bloviating smokescreens don't help us understand the issue.
All of the ways companies cause GHG gas emissions - from direct emissions on site to emissions from power generation off-site to emissions in their supply chain & from product usage are addressed in the #GreenhouseGasReportingProtocol .
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into "America's Semiconductor HQ", attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/features/825207/semiconduct…
@cdarwin@c.imA coalition of more than 230 environmental groups
has demanded a national moratorium
on new datacenters in the US,
the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry
that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis.
The green groups, including
Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Food & Water Watch and dozens of local organizations,
have urged members of Congress to halt the pro…
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom David Suzuki
Expanding LNG will increase prices and pollution
Higher home heating prices. Pollution. Accelerating climate change. Water shortages. Indigenous rights violations. Who wants that? Apparently the obscenely profitable fossil fuel companies, and unimaginative, short-sighted governments banking on outdated ideas to shore up the economy.
Has industry lived up to its LNG promises? A David Suzuki Foundation report concludes that it hasn’t & isn’t likely to.
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.deBack in #Taiwan, ready for a cracker tour through the wee #semiconductor industry with our interational “Silicon Urbanism” research group.
From clean rooms to water streams, we’ll do it all
@buercher@tooting.chNetflix, of course, have made their billions by upending the traditional pitch-session-to-cinema pipeline that had sustained the film industry for decades. They have signed up legions of the classiest directors, hogged nearly all the audience-friendly documentaries and premiered one water-cooler series after another.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/05/what-does-netflix-hope-to-achieve-by-buying-warner-bros?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
