Read, Watch, and Listen #8 -- Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Swedish architect Pavels Hedström (via LinkedIn).
This week: peak oil may be near, but climate change isn’t solved yet; monster fracks and the water that feeds them; America wins big in discovering a major new deposit of lithium; Xcel wins funds from the Feds for energy storage in Colorado and Minnesota; melting ice in Norway yields ever more ancient artifacts in a race against time; and a Swedish architect finds his way in the world, sometimes to startling effect.
America Just Hit the Lithium Jackpot
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/nevada-lithium-geopolitics/675325/
A Young Architect’s Designs for the Climate Apocalypse
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/25/a-young-architects-designs-for-the-climate-apocalypse
Feds give Xcel $70 million for innovative clean energy storage in Colorado and Minnesota
https://coloradosun.com/2023/09/22/xcel-colorado-70-million-federal-grant-battery-storage/
Ancient Arrow Is Among Artifacts to Emerge From Norway’s Melting Ice
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/climate/arrow-glacier-melting-norway.html
‘Monster Fracks’ Are Getting Far Bigger. And Far Thirstier.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/25/climate/fracking-oil-gas-wells-water.html
Peak Oil Is Near, Energy Agency Says, but Climate Change Is Far From Solved
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/26/climate/iaea-road-map-renewable-energy.html