Skull of Satoshi, a sculpture by Benjamin Von Wong highlighting the environmental impact of bitcoin VonWong/Skull Of Satoshi/Greenpeace blog.vonwong.com/skull/ The amount of electricity used to mine and trade bitcoin climbed to 121 terawatt-hours in 2023, 27 per cent more than the previous year. While other cryptocurrencies in the same position have made bold changes to … Read more
Just as the power sector looks set to reach peak carbon emissions, the rise of AI use brings a new pressure on our energy requirements Source link
The Northvolt Ett factory in Sweden Northvolt Ett On a journey out of Skellefteå, an industrial town in the north of Sweden, I pass several large factories. But they are all dwarfed by my destination – Northvolt Ett, the first battery “gigafactory” to begin production in Europe. “You need to see it to believe it,” … Read more
Aerospace company ZeroAvia successfully tested using a hydrogen-electric engine to power one of the propellors in a 19-seat aircraft Technology 20 January 2023 By Jeremy Hsu ZeroAvia’s test plane ZeroAvia A plane with an experimental hydrogen-electric engine on its left wing successfully completed a test flight this week. It is the largest such craft to … Read more
The Merge, a long-awaited update which promised to slash Ethereum’s vast energy consumption, has instead pushed miners towards other cryptocurrencies Technology 20 September 2022 By Matthew Sparkes An engineer at a cryptocurrency mining business PixeloneStocker/Getty Images A radical update last week to the Ethereum cryptocurrency was supposed to reduce energy consumption by 99 per cent, … Read more
Meta has used AI to develop concrete that emits 40 per cent less carbon, but researchers say that other concrete mixtures can already achieve that Technology 27 April 2022 By Matthew Sparkes AI-generated concrete formulas undergoing testing as part of their initial performance assessment and refinementCopyright: CREDIT: Meta Meta Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has used … Read more