The shift from fossil fuels to electric in the quest to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 just hit a snag with the copper shortage. A July 2022 S&P Global study, “The Future of Cooper: Will the Looming Supply Gap Short-circuit the Energy Transition?” reports that without a new copper supply, the climate goal will remain out of reach.
The study
Rise in commercial planning offsets dip in institutional activity
HAMILTON, N.J.— The Dodge Momentum Index (DMI) increased 2.9% in July to 178.7 from the revised June figure of 173.6.
The Momentum Index, issued by Dodge Construction Network, is a monthly measure of the initial report for nonresidential building projects in planning. The index is shown to lead construction spending
The project, called Big-T, is intended as an extension to the national power grid by both producing and storing electricity. The client is BE Power and GE Renewable Energy, a division of General Electric.
BigT will consist of a pumped hydro energy storage facility (400MW/10 hours) and a battery energy storage facility (200MW/1
Directors of SEH French, Paul Rodwell and Simon Girling, have described the current state of the industry as unprecedented as we enter the second half of 2022.
The coronavirus pandemic, Brexit
Nature creates layered materials like bone and mother-of-pearl that become less sensitive to defects as they grow. Now researchers have created, using biomimetic proteins patterned on squid ring teeth, composite layered 2D materials that are resistant to breaking and extremely stretchable.
“Researchers rarely reported this interface property for the bone and nacre because it was difficult to measure experimentally,” said
If we had to choose one word to characterize our current global industrial climate, it just might be “anxiety.” There’s daily trepidation about whether the U.S. economy is being hurled into a recession and if inflationary pressures are taking enough grip to make it so. But the Federal Reserve is hesitant to say so and has put the brakes on
