Open for business: Orediggers celebrate new entrepreneurship hub
Colorado School of Mines students can now have their own “ Shark Tank” experience thanks to the campus’ new Beck Venture Center.
April 5, 2024
Colorado university opens $25 million entrepreneurship center
“We’re already starting to get that kind of synergy where the companies come in, the investors come in, companies bring more investors, investors bring more companies, and ... it becomes a place to be for those connections,” Zach Bennett, founding ....
April 3, 2024
Inside the GOP probe of IEA
There's some irony in how, for years, climate activists criticized the institution for allegedly underselling the odds of an energy transition, said Morgan Bazilian, director of the Colorado School of Mines' Payne Institute for Public Policy. The GOP ....
April 3, 2024
Panel of lawmakers considers whether carbon capture holds future in Colorado
Not only is carbon storage necessary for capturing and ridding the air of emissions that either are taken from industrial pipes — or, in the future, will be pulled directly from the air — but it’s been proven effective, said Anna Littlefield ....
April 1, 2024
2 Colorado colleges teaming up for battery challenge
Colorado School of Mines and Arapahoe Community College are teaming up for an EV battery challenge sponsored by global automaker Stellantis.
April 1, 2024
Hunt is on for Colorado’s next gold rush: Geological hydrogen
“Geologic hydrogen has massive potential,” said Mengli Zhang, a geophysicist at the Colorado School of Mines. “The geologic hydrogen gold rush is coming.
April 1, 2024
Hydropower production took a hit in 2023
“The earlier melt that we’ve been seeing for quite a while is a relatively clear climate change signal,” said Adrienne Marshall, a hydrologist at the Colorado School of Mines.
March 28, 2024
Energy Dept. Awards $6 Billion for Green Steel, Cement and Even Macaroni Factories
“It’s different from the electricity sector, where widely available alternatives to fossil fuels like wind, solar and batteries have come down dramatically in cost,” Morgan Bazilian, a professor of public policy at the Colorado School of Mines, said ....
March 25, 2024
Mining Companies Say They Have a Better Way to Get Underground Lithium, but Skepticism Remains
“The notion that you see on websites for companies is ‘Here comes the brine water and the magic chemical tweezers pull only this out and everything else goes back in the earth,” said Corby Anderson, director of the Kroll Institute For Extractive ....