Plans to drill 12 miles deep into the Earth’s Mantle get the green light with new funding
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We all sit above a limitless amount of energy, but getting to it is an engineering nightmare … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. A...
The world’s largest carbon capture and storage plant begins operation in Iceland
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Carbon dioxide is a major greenhouse gas that’s driving climate change, so projects are underways to remove it from the atmosphere. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
Renewable energy smashes a major installation milestone, hits 1 Trillion watts
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The rise of renewable energy is on a tear, and it’s now looking unstoppable. Global wind and solar developers took 40 years to install their first trillion watts of power generation capacity, and, as electric vehicles get ready to take off, and as renewables...
Google reportedly mulls investing in a hypersonic tunnelling boring company
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There is a race on to increase the speed of boring tunnels by at least ten fold, and if it can be achieved it will change the economics of energy generation and transportation. Google announced recently, quietly, very quietly, that it’s carrying out research...
Inside NASA’s plan to stop the next Yellowstone supervolcano eruption
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One day a Supervolcano like Yellowstone will erupt, plunge the Earth into the next ice age and potentially wipe out much of life on Earth, but now NASA has a plan to stop it Nature is as awesome as it is destructive, and it’s...
Iceland drills worlds deepest well to tap energy from rivers of magma
Icelands geothermal project could lead to similar projects in the US that could power the whole continent Iceland, already a juggernaut in the world of sustainability, is about to turn up the heat on its geothermal efforts. Since September, engineers in southwestern Iceland have been slowly drilling into the earth...
