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Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center
The National Center for Atmospheric Research won't be losing its supercomputer.
๐บ๐ธ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ยท IT/๊ธฐ์ ยท "CLIMATE" ยท ์ด 8๊ฑด
ํํฐ ๋ณด๊ธฐํ์ฌ ์ง์
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0 = ๋ถ์ ์ฐ์ธ
50 = ์ค๋ฆฝ
100 = ๊ธ์ ์ฐ์ธ
์ต๊ทผ 7์ผ ๊ธฐ์ค 11,145๊ฑด์ ๋ถ์ํ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๋ด์ค ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ง์๋ 50.0(๊ท ํ)์ ๋๋ค. ๊ธ์ 1๊ฑด(0.0%)ยท์ค๋ฆฝ 11,143๊ฑด(100.0%)ยท๋ถ์ 1๊ฑด(0.0%)์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ค๋ฆฝ ๋น์ค์ด ๋๋ ทํ๊ฒ ๋์ต๋๋ค. ์ฑํฅ ์ง์๋ ์ข ํฉ 18.4(์ค๋ ๊ท ํ)์ ๋๋ค.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research won't be losing its supercomputer.
Mike Schroepfer's Gigascale Capital has raised a large fund to back founders building climate-friendly solutions for the world's energy and material shortages.
โNot in my backyardโ is the rallying cry of citizens everywhere resisting projects proposed for their locality. Whether itโs affordable housing, a waste treatment plant, or a new data center, they may recognize the benefit of the activity. They just donโt want it near them. And the roots of that resistance differ from place to place. When it comes to the ongoing transition from fossil fuels to renewables, companies and policymakers need to know where, exactly, people are coming from. The Italian island of Sardinia is a textbook example. As IEEE Spectrumโs power and energy editor Emily Waltz discovered when she traveled there last October, Sardinian opposition to wind and solar projects runs deep. It spurred a quarter of the voting population to queue up in public squares in 2024 to sign a petition banning all construction of renewable energy. Waltz was surprised. She went there to see a promising new grid-scale energy storage system that uses domes inflated with carbon dioxide. While reporting on that project, she interviewed residents, engineers, activists, and professors about their attitudes toward climate change and the Italian governmentโs grand plans for renewable energy on the island. And Waltz soon learned of Sardiniansโ profound antipathy toward renewable energy and its deep ties to a history of invasion, occupation, and exploitation stretching back 2,700 years. It started with the Phoenicians and then extended through the Romans, the Byzantines, and the Iberians. Sardinia was absorbed into a newly unified Italy in 1861, and it became an autonomous region of Italy in 1948. The islandโs population is justifiably suspicious of outsiders, including the Italian government. โWhen youโre in Sardinia, the weight of historyโyou can feel it like in the air,โ Waltz told me. โAnd it gets passed down from one generation to the next.โ Now, Italy needs Sardinia to produce even more power to meet the countryโs climate goalsโsomething that Sardinians see as Romeโs problem, not theirs. โSardinia already exports about 30 percent of its electricity. Itโs not like they need more,โ Waltz says. โSo itโs hard to make the case to build, build, build.โ The result of Waltzโs old-fashioned shoe leather reporting is this monthโs cover story. She notes that the Sardinians she talked to arenโt climate-change deniers, and they donโt object to renewables per se. They just donโt like the way corporations and Italian policymakers are trying to plug into Sardinia like itโs one giant battery rather than the home of an ancient and proud people. โI think Sardinians would be more receptive to renewable projects if it was more of a ground-up, grassroots approach,โ Waltz says. Indeed, this homegrown approach is already working in some places in Sardinia. She knows of more than 50 projects, called energy communities, where the residents are deploying renewables themselves. The idea also holds promise for other places struggling to get locals to buy into the renewable-energy transition. The Sardinian experience is both a cautionary tale and a blueprint. Ignore the weight of history that communities carry and your project risks failure. Meet the people where they are and you might just get somewhere. The same lesson applies whether youโre in Sulawesi or sub-Saharan Africa. You just have to show up to learn it.
The abrupt collapse of USAID one year ago impacted food security, agriculture, and climate resilience across the Caribbean.
This is todayโs edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whatโs going on in the world of technology. Climate tech companies are going public. Whatโs next? Solar and battery company Solv Energy went public in February, hitting a $6 billion valuation. X-energy, which builds small modular nuclear reactors, followedโฆ
This year, thereโs been a wave of notable energy companies going public via IPO in the US. The solar and battery company Solv Energy went public in February, to the tune of $6 billion. X-energy, which is building small modular nuclear reactors, did the same in April, and its stocks surged on its first dayโฆ
This is todayโs edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whatโs going on in the world of technology. Tech researchers are suing the Trump administration over the future of online safety For months, the Trump administration has been going after researchers who study and try to counter hate speech,โฆ
Weโre over a year into the second Trump administration here in the US, and support for climate causes is weak. But climate tech companies are finding ways to survive and even thrive in this new environment, including by focusing on potential benefits outside decarbonization. Suddenly, it feels like every climate tech company has a storyโฆ