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Candidates for EPA carbon-storage permits should persuade the company that they will comprise each the plume of injected carbon dioxide and a secondary plume of saltwater that the CO2 displaces from the rock—what drilling engineers name…

“That is my life,” Wallach says. “There may be nothing else I’d relatively be doing. If I used to be given a billion {dollars}, as we speak, the very first thing I might do is construct a superlab.” When Compass got here calling, he…

To date, however, American utility companies haven’t widely deployed current-blocking devices to the live grid. “They’ve only done things, like moving to higher and higher operating voltages”—for cheaper transmission—“that greatly…

By late August, as the government continued to stonewall the protesters' growing demands, many young people became more desperate. They routinely relied on Molotovs, bonfires, bricks, lighter fluid, and anything metal to shatter windows.…