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Beyond the Cloud: What’s AI’s True Environmental Cost? Part 2

Enviromental Defense

To prevent equipment failure, they employ extensive cooling systems that often rely on water – and the volumes they use are staggering. 2 Energy The electricity required to power and cool date centres represents another significant environmental concern. This rapid turnover contributes to the growing global e-waste crisis.

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Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week

PA Environment Daily

Wants Pennsylvanias Power, So Its Buying 2 Stronghold Waste Coal-fired Power Plants In Carbon, Venango Counties -- Post-Gazette: How Cryptocurrency Is Mined And Why Canadian Bitcoin Mining Co. Ohio- $2.80

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Nuclear Energy’s Unsettled Revival

Circle of Blue

Our job was to explain how cooling water pumps failed and valves ignored control center commands early on March 28, 1979. All the activity has not invalidated the standard and sturdy safety, cost, and waste management critiques of nuclear power. NuScales air-cooled design meant power would be generated with much less demand for water.

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Fast electrons accelerate the production of medical isotopes

Physics World

This achievement paves the way for alternative radioisotope production methods using electron accelerators that do not require enriched uranium and produce little nuclear waste. The approach requires no enriched uranium and produces hardly any long-lived radioactive waste. Medical radioisotopes.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

24-26 At Shale Insight Conference -- PA Resources Council, Partners Host 3 Electronic Waste Collection Events In Delaware, Montgomery Counties Starting Sept. -- National Museum Of Industrial History Hosts Immersive VR Experiences On Industrial History For Lehigh Watershed Explorers Starting Sept. 26 [PaEN] -- Still Time To Register!

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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 18

PA Environment Daily

Waste Permits -- PennEnergy Resources, LLC - Ferree Shale Gas Well Pad Aboveground Storage Tank: DEP invites comments on a WMGR123 General Waste Permit for conventional and unconventional wastewater storage located in Middlesex Twp., in Philadelphia. ( in Philadelphia. ( Butler County. ( Tioga County. ( Bedford County. (

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Why Do Heat Pumps Have a Bad Rap? Lies

Legal Planet

Obviously, I don’t want to waste money, sleep on the street, or see my local bakery go belly up. My partner and I, and our 9-year-old, don’t have central heating and cooling, so we sweat through LA summers with a single window AC-unit and shiver through our (mild) winters with nothing but a space heater. No, of course not.