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Can Concrete Be More Environmentally Friendly? We May be About to Find Out

October 29, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

A National Science foundation grant will allow civil engineering researchers to work on an environmentally-friendly, hardier concrete material. Assistant professor of civil engineering at The University of Texas Warda Ashraf received almost half a million dollars in grant money to develop it. According to a recent Mirage News report, Ashraf says modern cement is made […]

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Artificial Intelligence Has an Emissions Problem

November 6, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Technology, artificial intelligence and automation are supposed to solve our biggest problems, not create new ones or exacerbate existing issues. Unbeknownst to many, big tech is actually putting a huge burden on the environment. In a study assessing the energy consumption required to train several common large AI models, Researchers at the University of Massachusetts […]

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