The Global Crux of the Energy Transition: Making Sure Everyone Benefits From the Coming Mining Boom

Jessica Smith, professor of engineering, design and society, and John Bradford, vice president for global initiatives, co-authored this opinion piece about the importance of reconciling social acceptance with the pressure to rapidly expand the ....
February 20, 2023

Opinion: To regulate methane emissions, Colorado needs clear data

Jennifer Miskimins, professor and head of the Petroleum Engineering Department at Colorado School of Mines, and Jim Crompton, professor of practice of petroleum engineering, wrote this opinion piece about why simply collecting methane measurements is ....
February 15, 2023

Panic over spy balloon echoes misguided alarm over Sputnik

Kenneth Osgood, professor of history at Colorado School of Mines, writes about the recent Chinese spy balloon and how the reaction to it is similar to the 1957 launch of Soviet satellite Sputnik.
February 13, 2023

UK scientists found a way to slash nearly 90% of carbon emissions from the country's steel industry

"I found this very innovative and promising," said Jihye Kim, an assistant professor at the Colorado School of Mines who researches critical mineral extraction from the wasted byproducts from steel production. "But there are a few disadvantages."
February 9, 2023

Colorado Matters: Company moves to Colorado with asteroid mining in its sights

Angel Abbud-Madrid, director of the Space Resources Program at Colorado School of Mines, talks to Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner about the new era of space exploration.
February 8, 2023

This is how Xcel makes a profit, and it's not gas

“They’re just saying ‘we make investments that the state Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approves, those investments have an approved rate of return that we’re allowed to profit on, and we just follow that,’” said Ian Lange, Director of Mineral and ....
February 7, 2023

Could Colorado see a major earthquake like Turkey and Syria?

“We do have faults in Colorado with maximum credible earthquakes above magnitude 7,” said Kyren Bogolub, a seismologist with the Colorado Geological Survey. “The largest maximum credible earthquake for a fault in Colorado is 7.5, and that’s on the ....
February 6, 2023

Tesla’s Pickup Truck Is Coming Soon. Maybe.

“Broadly the concept could make sense,” said Kip Findley, a professor of metallurgical and materials engineering at the Colorado School of Mines who has done research on advanced steel for vehicles. “This is pushing steel development forward and ....
February 6, 2023

Colorado School of Mines police use augmented reality in active shooter, de-escalation training

“We've primarily focused on a couple areas so far. One is our active shooter response. But also, the other one is really around folks having mental health concerns or, you know, being in distress and being able to deescalate those situations,” School ....
February 1, 2023

Destroying 'forever chemicals' is a technological race that could become a multibillion-dollar industry

“The cost per volume of liquid to treat for these destructive approaches is much higher,” said Timothy Strathmann, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. He is developing a destruction method called ....
January 31, 2023

If you lower the heat by 1 degree, what does it do to your Xcel bill?

“For every degree that you either increase or decrease, you’re going to increase by 3% your heating bill, if you decrease it by one degree, you’re going to decrease your bill by 3%,” said Paulo Tabares, associate professor of mechanial engineering at ....
January 30, 2023

Police in Colorado use augmented reality to help officers work through scenarios

The Colorado School of Mines Police Department was one of the first in the nation to work with a local company to fine-tune augmented reality software to help officers work through unlimited scenarios.
January 30, 2023