La technologie va-t-elle suffire à sauver la ...

Nos téléphones, nos ordinateurs ou encore nos voitures électriques reposent aujourd’hui sur une même technologie : les batteries lithium-ion. Leur fonctionnement est bien connu. Des ions, des particules chargées, circulent entre deux électrodes à travers un électrolyte, ce qui gé ...  Show more

Et si le dioxyde de carbone, souvent considéré comme un déchet climatique, devenait une ressource utile ? C’est l’une des pistes explorées aujourd’hui par la recherche. À Zurich, des scientifiques de l’ETH ont mis au point une méthode innovante pour transformer le CO₂ en méthanol ...  Show more

Humans are responsible for emitting over 40 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year – and we all know that we need to reduce that figure to prevent devastating climate change. Listener Saugat wonders whether smart technology and artificial intelligence ...

Just a few days before COP26 opens in Glasgow, the World Meteorological Organisation reported record greenhouse gas levels, despite a fall in CO2 due to pandemic restrictions. The UN Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report also revealed that current country pledges will only ...  Show more

Energy is essential: every living thing needs energy to survive, and today’s industrialised societies consume enormous quantities of it. At the moment, the vast majority of this comes from burning fossil fuels that emit carbon. But the government is committed to reaching net zero ...  Show more

AI isn’t just threatening to take our jobs, it’s also draining our electricity.

Data centres centers used to have power demand measured in the tens of megawatts. Now they are in the hundreds of megawatts, and the new ones that are being proposed have dem ...