But once, the Death Valley town held great promise for copper and lead mining. Prospectors flocked to the city, filling it with flashy modern amenities.  But it didn’t last. The whole town was built ...

But once, the Death Valley town held great promise for copper and lead mining. Prospectors flocked to the city, filling it ...

In 1950, a huge open-pit copper mine opened beside a small town in Arizona. As the mine expanded over the next two decades, ...

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a way to convert the nation's 500,000 abandoned coal mines into long-term energy storage using pumped hydro technology. Repurposing the mines ...

A Pike County project that would put thousands of solar panels on a reclaimed strip mine site was featured in a film. Abandoned mine lands could also be used for data centers. Earth Vision Institute A ...

Wangda Zuo receives funding from National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, and Penn State. He is a Fellow American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers.

There are many controversies surrounding the location of proposed data centers in my home state of Kentucky and other states potentially raising rates for the public (“AI and the Data Center Backlash, ...

After a long hike through bear country, we reach a 120-year-old abandoned mine deep in the mountains. The original plan was to sleep inside the mine, but wet ground and hidden dangers forced us to ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Wangda Zuo, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) The electricity needed to power new ...