Read, Watch, and Listen #4 - Monday, August 21, 2023

Image: GitHub

In this edition: a focus on the promise, politics, and perils of mining nickel, a crucial mineral ingredient in the global energy transition.

Plus: beaming power directly from space and (not new news, but still amazing) GitHub builds the ultimate backup drive for open-source code: the Arctic.

  1. How Geopolitics Is Complicating the Move to Clean Energy

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/business/indonesia-nickel-china-us.html

  2. The rush for nickel: 'They are destroying our future'

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66131451

  3. Proposed Minnesota nickel mine begins environmental review, would supply Tesla if approved

    https://apnews.com/article/talon-nickel-mine-environment-tribal-minnesota-c728e9776492abe85a6fa4b843b253c8

  4. Beaming Power From Space: Caltech’s Prototype Achieves Wireless Energy Transmission

    https://scitechdaily.com/beaming-power-from-space-caltechs-prototype-achieves-wireless-energy-transmission/

  5. GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzI9FNjXQ0o&ab_channel=GitHub

Read/Watch/ListenJoseph Gaines