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 ....
March 24, 2024

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An attempt to ban all "forever chemicals" in Colorado failed. What will it take to finally get rid of PFAS?

“There are critical uses for PFAS that are going to be hard to replace with other chemicals — those will take more time,” said Timm Strathmann, a Colorado School of Mines professor who researches PFAS. “Then there are products where we already have ....
March 17, 2024

Putin's Plans for Russia Over Next Six Years

"The biggest and most consequential wild card is what happens in the 2024 U.S. election," said Ken Osgood, history professor at Colorado School of Mines, noting the signaling of Trump and the MAGA wing of the GOP to end the war in Ukraine quickly.
March 17, 2024

Soaring Denver-Area Rents Spur $200 Million Student Housing Bond

“We are located in the west side of Denver and it’s very, very expensive,” said Kristen Volpi, vice president and chief financial officer at the Colorado School of Mines. “Students are unable to find private apartments that they can afford, so they ....
March 13, 2024