‘If people could see this with their bare eyes, none of this would be happening.’
Science, Tech, Environment
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Beating Back Data Centers
Desperate for ‘free money,’ most of the communities that approve these facilities are outmatched by developers. But these water-guzzling, power-hungry projects have major downsides.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
There’s a Far Cheaper Way to Do Rooftop Solar
You don’t have to pay for contractors or a grid hookup.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Can the American Battery Industry Survive Trump?
For solar and grid storage, it’s a race between technological progress and Republican malice.
Posted inTAP
Fear Government Control of Markets? It’s Trump, Not Mamdani, Who’s Your Problem.
Today on TAP: Trump’s Pentagon just became the majority shareholder in America’s only rare-earths mine. Where’s the Republican outrage?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Elon Musk’s Next Potential Self-Enrichment
His Starlink internet service could benefit from a proposed Republican fire sale of the government’s wireless spectrum.
Posted inPolitics
What Trump Could Learn From Hitler on NIH Funding
Even the Führer knew to support German science, and not just for war. Why is Trump trying to destroy America’s great research universities?
Posted inTransportation
Tesla Is Cooked
Unless Donald Trump gives the company lots of government subsidies, that is.
Posted inPolitics
Science Is Political
Norms are made to be broken in a time of emergency; so too for the idea that science must float above politics.