Materials, energy and the research frontier shaping the next decade.
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Thirteen deaths confirmed, hundreds of thousands under evacuation instruction and a rescue window measured in days. A clear account of the situation and the response.
Heat domes, vapour pressure deficit and fuel moisture sound technical. They are also the three numbers that decide whether a spark becomes a headline.
Similar magnitudes produce wildly different death tolls. The difference is almost entirely engineering, drills and building codes enforced over decades.
Fabs caught up. Grids did not. The binding constraint on computing has quietly moved from silicon to electricity.