Enlarge / Water levels at the Hoover Dam are well below capacity. (credit: Jorge Villalba ) News that Arizona’s Lake Powell is slowly but surely drying up has spread far and wide. The reservoir behind the particular 1, 320-megawatt Glen Canyon Atteinte and power station, Lake Powell plays an important role in providing power for […]
Enlarge / The white areas on the walls near Lake Mead provide an indication of how much its waters have dropped. (credit: Lingqi Xie ) About half of the contiguous US is currently experiencing moderate to extreme drought—including almost all of the West. That shouldn’t come as a surprise, as widely pervasive drought has been […]
Enlarge / MEADVIEW, AZ – JUNE 29: A dock, which has become unusable as a worsening drought drops the water level of Lake Mead to new historic low records, is seen at South Cove near the upper reaches of the reservoir near Meadview, Arizona. (credit: David McNew/Getty Images ) Two decades of drought have exacted […]
Stinky for a cause! Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are amending their previous statements about their lack of a bath time routine for themselves and their kids… and this time they’re claiming it’ s to save the environment?! While chatting with Daily Blast Live for the premiere of their new game show Family Game Fight […]
Enlarge / This machine is checking silicon wafers in a cleanroom lab—class 1 chip facilities must limit dust to 10 particles per cubic meter, 1/1000th the amount found in hospital operating theaters. (credit: Monty Rakusen via Getty Images) Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Chris Rolland noted Tuesday that the wait time for all major semiconductor product […]
A significant portion of the Micron fab is bathed in yellow light to protect the light-sensitive coating on the wafers. Chips on the wafers are created using a photographic process. Each of the cameras, which are the machines on each side of the aisle, costs about $70 million. (credit: Micron) Semiconductor supply chains have not […]
Expand / Flooding at Midland, Michigan in May 2020 following heavy rains resulted in the collapse of 2 dams. Climate change entails direct impacts about the cycling of water throughout our surroundings. The warmer air holds more moisture, which makes extreme rainstorms ditch more water than they ever used to. On the reverse side, warmer […]