>"The UK's 15 nationally funded museums have seen visitor numbers drop by over a third compared to June 2019, thanks in large part to the pandemic. They are now facing price rises, with government support still unclear"

"The Poll Tax was a colossal failure, ushering Thatcher towards resignation in November 1990 and scrapped when John Major became Prime Minister. One big difference between the Poll Tax and energy bills, though, is the potential financial _...Read More_

>"Oil prices fell on Tuesday as bleak economic data from top crude buyer China renewed fears of a global recession."

>"The Biden administration is taking a gamble that furthers our reliance on China without providing the essential elements to build our domestic solar industry."

>"Can gravity, pressure, and other elemental forces save us from becoming a battery-powered civilization?"

>"To navigate the long road to net zero, energy researchers must grapple with the lessons of history."

>""Layer cake" anode could help sodium-ion batteries displace lithium-ion"

China just helped Pakistan build a reactor in seven and a half years, which is pretty fast. If I had one PSA for Highsnobiety readers, it would be that we should stop shutting down nuclear plants, because when we do that, emissions always _...Read More_

>"Smaller nuclear reactors might be the bridge to a carbon-free economy. But are they worth it?"

[https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/why-ai-is-so-power-hungry/](https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/why-ai-is-so-power-hungry/) "Training neural networks burns through a lot of energy. As the AI field grows, it's working to keep its carbon foot print from growing with it."

This Arkansas school turned solar savings into better teacher pay " in three years generated enough savings to transform the _...Read More_

From a human viewpoint, climate change is fundamentally an economic problem, existing not within but as part of the very fabric of the economic system in which we are entrenched. As it seems a non-economic conception of the human cannot be _...Read More_

SQUADS HAVE EXISTED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS as vital forms of social and economic organization. Thanks to group chats and a wave of private online social platforms, squads are reemerging today as a potent cultural force that rejects a _...Read More_

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