Power
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World
Ukraine gives an optimistic update on its power grid, but concern grows about coming holidays.
Ukrainian officials are optimistic that rolling power outages will not be necessary around the New Year holidays as crews work to repair the country’s power grid, which has been battered by Russian strikes. Although the grid remains fragile and many ...
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World
Storm Batters Canada, Leaving Thousands Without Power
Every province and territory in Canada issued an emergency weather warning on Saturday, as winter storms left thousands without power, grounded hundreds of flights and caused the pileup of dozens of cars on a highway in Ontario. Even Canadians ...
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Newyork
Could Fusion Arrive in Time to Solve Climate Change?
This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Wednesdays. When researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California announced last week that they had achieved the first controlled nuclear ...
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Newyork
With This Supreme Court, the Way Liberals Dissent Matters
A pattern is emerging for liberal dissenters on the Supreme Court. Having lost a case, the justices — Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, who were joined this term by Ketanji Brown Jackson — warn of the costs of each mistake to the court’s public ...
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World
A battered Kyiv has power for only about a fifth of residents.
Repeated Russian bombardments of energy infrastructure in and around Kyiv have left the Ukrainian capital with only enough power for about 20 percent of the city’s 3.3 million residents, energy officials say, a situation that is forcing utilities to ...
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US
An ‘Imperial Supreme Court’ Asserts Its Power, Alarming Scholars
Several new studies document the current court’s distinctive insistence on its dominance and the justices’ willingness to use procedural shortcuts to achieve it.
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World
Ukrainians Focus on Resilience a Day After Major Russian Strikes
The mayor of Kyiv said that water was back on and that the city’s subway service had resumed. President Volodymyr Zelensky urged businesses to help set up more “invincibility centers” for the public.
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News
Betting on Fusion Energy Shows Our Children We Care About Them
On Dec. 5, 192 lasers at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California fired a synchronized shot at a golden cylinder about the size of a jelly bean. With exquisite precision, the capsule focused the laser ...
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Newyork
Here Is What Is Really Strangling the Energy Transition
For generations, tobacco was the king of crops in the region known as the Carolina Sandhills, the best way to coax cash out of the sandy soil. But the long decline of smoking in America idled many tobacco fields, and now farmers are eyeing a new crop ...
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Newyork
What Comes After a World’s First in Fusion Research
As soon as Kim Budil, the director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, said on Tuesday that cheap, abundant electricity from nuclear fusion is still “probably decades” away, some people lost interest in the news that her lab had achieved a ...