Good news on clean energy, AI, physics

Fix the News says it’s excited about this issue, and I am, too. Among the items that require a subscription:

— South America has achieved an energy milestone and set a global benchmark, says Clean Technica. The entire continent has zero new coal-fired power plants planned. 

— There are reasons to believe that underlying business realities will ultimately bend toward more energy-efficient AI, and MIT Technology Review discusses four of those reasons.

— It’s the 100th birthday of quantum mechanics, and physicists are now gazing on the dawn of a new quantum era, says Science News. 

Current research — what some call the second quantum revolution — involves a new level of precision control over quantum systems, and Science News has spoken with five physicists who are “pushing the quantum envelope.”

For example, physicist Clarice Aiello wants scientists to take quantum biology seriously. Quantum mechanics may play a role in photosynthesis, and birds may use a quantum compass to sense magnetic fields.

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