Energy
Bitcoin jumps after Elon Musk says Tesla will resume accepting it once clean energy condition is met
The price of bitcoin is surging after Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk tweeted Sunday that the electric car company would start accepting the cryptocurrency again once at least half of it can be mined using clean energy. “When there’s confirmation of reasonable (~50%) clean energy usage by miners with positive future trend, Tesla will resume …
New standards needed for the clean energy technology supply chain
This year’s G7 meeting is the middle of a three-act play — after President Biden’s Climate Leaders’ Summit, and before the Climate Conference of the Parties in Glasgow. In fact, according to UN Climate Change executive secretary Patricia Espinosa, the decisions the G7 makes in the next few weeks will have a major impact on …
David Roche on how to invest in the electric vehicle market
This photo shows an electric car being charged on a street in London. Miles Willis | Getty Images News | Getty Images There’s been a rush for electric vehicles and investors are piling money into green cars and the batteries that power them — but one top investment strategist says he’s avoiding the sector for …
Dracula Technologies turns ambient light into energy with printed solar cells – TechCrunch
A bat-shaped organic photovoltaic module from Dracula Technologies Internet of Things devices are proliferating, making daily tasks more convenient for many people—but that comes at cost. The United Nations expects the amount of e-waste created globally to reach 52.2 million metric tons this year, and a sizable portion of that are dead batteries. Dracula Technologies, …
AI technology innovator techspert.io continues accelerated momentum with launch into global energy and industrial markets
techspert.io disrupts global knowledge landscape with move into energy and industrials space, and plans fast roll-out into more sectors CAMBRIDGE, England, June 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — techspert.io, the AI technology innovator connecting businesses with experts for domain-specific industry insights, announces today that it has formally launched into the global energy and industrial sectors, as it …
Cityzenith joins WEF Global Innovators Program | Technology & AI
Nokia is collaborating with NetNordic in an eight-year agreement with Equinor to deliver a private 4G and 5G-ready solution for the energy giant’s international operations. The industrial-grade private wireless technology will deliver the reliability, capacity, security and low latency needed to support collaboration between teams across Equinor’s installations. The frame agreement will include hardware, software, design, radio planning, implementation and support. Under the agreement, the private LTE …
Resource plays lead London market higher after 3-day break
U.K. stocks returned on Tuesday from a three-day break with strong gains, as commodity plays surged, with oil prices at a more than two-year high. Miners including Rio Tinto RIO, +3.76% and Anglo American AAL, +4.50%, and energy producers BP BP, +2.17% and Royal Dutch Shell RDSB, +1.73%, helped the FTSE 100 UKX, +1.12% jump …
New NASA photo shows our galaxy’s ‘violent energy’
The stunning panorama was compiled using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. Images also documented an X-ray thread known as G0.17-0.41 that researchers say suggests a mechanism that could control the energy flow, and even the evolution of the Milky Way. “The galaxy is like an ecosystem,” …
Duke Energy is installing technology to up response to power outages
Special to The Star | The Shelby Star With spring storm season in full swing and hurricane season approaching, Duke Energy says it’s installing new technology to up its response time to power outages. “We recognize when power outages occur, our customers depend on us most to get their power restored,” said Brian Naumuk, vice …
Proteomics technology shows how exercise improves the efficiency of muscle energy production
Mitochondria are the cell’s power plants and produce the majority of a cell’s energy needs through an electrochemical process called electron transport chain coupled to another process known as oxidative phosphorylation. A number of different proteins in mitochondria facilitate these processes, but it’s not fully understood how these proteins are arranged inside mitochondria and the …
