Energy Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/energy/ The best minds on the most important topics. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:22:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Energy Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/energy/ 32 32 When Oil and Gas Companies Go to School https://issues.org/oil-gas-companies-research-ethics-lieuwen/ https://issues.org/oil-gas-companies-research-ethics-lieuwen/#respond Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43615 Funding for university research programs by the oil and gas (O&G) industry is increasingly controversial in the United States. A 2023 Guardian article, for instance, described student “unease” upon learning that an… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/oil-gas-companies-research-ethics-lieuwen/feed/ 0 To Boost Energy Innovation, Pull Technologies Into the Market https://issues.org/demand-pull-energy-innovation-hart/ https://issues.org/demand-pull-energy-innovation-hart/#respond Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43586 The future of the United States’ energy system is hotly contested. As Democratic and Republican candidates disagree about the implications of—and sometimes even the existence of—climate change, elected officials in both parties… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/demand-pull-energy-innovation-hart/feed/ 0 Educating Engineers for a New Nuclear Age https://issues.org/educating-engineers-new-nuclear-verma-snyder-daly/ https://issues.org/educating-engineers-new-nuclear-verma-snyder-daly/#respond Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=42838 Engineering education has long prioritized technical mastery above all else. And though such prioritization has equipped engineers with powerful analytical tools, this singular focus has left them unprepared to address some of… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/educating-engineers-new-nuclear-verma-snyder-daly/feed/ 0 What Can Fusion Energy Learn From Biotechnology? https://issues.org/fusion-energy-lessons-biotechnology-lo-whyte/ https://issues.org/fusion-energy-lessons-biotechnology-lo-whyte/#respond Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=42840 Recent advances in fusion energy research have renewed excitement around this potentially transformative way to produce electricity and replace fossil fuel energy sources. Although fusion appears to face barriers that are unique… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/fusion-energy-lessons-biotechnology-lo-whyte/feed/ 0 A Public Path to Building a Star on Earth https://issues.org/public-path-fusion-deployment-ford/ https://issues.org/public-path-fusion-deployment-ford/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=42842 Although it has been compared to “creating a star on earth,” fusion technology faces many earthbound challenges if it is to fulfill its promise of producing low-carbon energy. At times, public trust… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/public-path-fusion-deployment-ford/feed/ 0 An Ambidextrous Approach to Nuclear Energy Innovation https://issues.org/ambidexterous-approach-nuclear-energy-innovation-metzler-messinger/ https://issues.org/ambidexterous-approach-nuclear-energy-innovation-metzler-messinger/#respond Tue, 03 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=42844 After many years of stagnation, a new wave of nuclear energy innovation is underway. Announcements of scientific and technical advances from laboratories and fusion and fission companies have become a regular occurrence.… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/ambidexterous-approach-nuclear-energy-innovation-metzler-messinger/feed/ 0 Moving Beyond Hype on Hydrogen https://issues.org/beyond-hype-hydrogen-karplus-morgan/ https://issues.org/beyond-hype-hydrogen-karplus-morgan/#respond Mon, 26 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=42836 Hydrogen has been “the fuel of the future” for a century. Whether it actually becomes an important part of a climate-friendly energy system depends as much on the cost of greenhouse gas emissions as it does on the tricky process of finding cheap, safe, and easy ways to harness hydrogen’s advantages.

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]]> https://issues.org/beyond-hype-hydrogen-karplus-morgan/feed/ 0 Harvesting Minnesota’s Wind Twice https://issues.org/wind-ammonia-minnesota-kagan-reese/ https://issues.org/wind-ammonia-minnesota-kagan-reese/#respond Tue, 28 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41971 The University of Minnesota West Central Research and Outreach Center (WCROC) is located in the city of Morris, in a region of the state where the winds howl across the plains of… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/wind-ammonia-minnesota-kagan-reese/feed/ 0 Ten Years Into the Gulf Research Program https://issues.org/gulf-research-program-augustine/ https://issues.org/gulf-research-program-augustine/#respond Wed, 08 May 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41965 On April 20, 2010, an explosion ripped through the Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig operating in the Gulf of Mexico, and triggered the worst oil spill to occur in US waters and… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/gulf-research-program-augustine/feed/ 0 Building Community in the Bayou  https://issues.org/episode-45-monique-verdin-mississippi-delta-climate-change/ https://issues.org/episode-45-monique-verdin-mississippi-delta-climate-change/#respond Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:46:59 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41557 At the age of 19, Monique Verdin picked up a camera and began documenting the lives of her relatives in the Mississippi Delta. Little did she know that she would spend the… Read More

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