The Emerald Review
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima—nuclear energy has had its fair share of disasters. Despite these catastrophes, nuclear seems to keep reemerging in the public consciousness as a potential energy source of the future. Why? The answer is simple: carbon-free energy. Nuclear energy releases no direct emissions that contribute to global warming. Clean, abundant, […]
Boston University, like many other colleges and universities, has an ambitious goal: to be carbon neutral by 2040. In order for this to happen, BU will need to decrease its emissions until it no longer emits more carbon into the atmosphere than it takes out. For a university that serves over 36,000 students, employs over […]
The reliance of the European Union (EU) on nonrenewable energy has perpetuated the ongoing violence occurring in Ukraine, and the solution could be renewable energy. The acts of war that have occurred between Russia and Ukraine may influence the long-overdue switch to renewable energy in many major world powers. This is because of the European […]