How an oil and gas decommissioning project rewrote the safety rules

Amplitude Energy’s work at the Basker, Manta and Gummy fields ‘pushed the boundaries of what’s been done in Australia before’ ...
Wired

How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying

“People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote in an aside in a long blog post last week. The average query, Altman wrote, uses 0.34 ...

Sodium-ion battery breakthrough could power greener energy—and even make seawater drinkable

Sodium-ion batteries may be the answer to the future of sustainable energy storage and could be used to make drinking water ...
Ars Technica

How do you destroy a forever chemical?

PFAS chemicals seemed like a good idea at first. As Teflon, they made pots easier to clean starting in the 1940s. They made jackets waterproof and carpets stain-resistant. Food wrappers, firefighting ...