Archive for the ‘sustainability’ category: Page 296
Feb 27, 2021
Michelin tyres will be 100% sustainable by 2050
Posted by Future Timeline in categories: materials, sustainability
By 2050, all Michelin tyres will be made entirely from renewable, recycled, biosourced or otherwise sustainable materials, the company announced this week.
Feb 25, 2021
Chinese £3,200 budget electric car takes on Tesla
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: sustainability, transportation
The mini electric vehicle being made by China’s biggest carmaker is now outselling Tesla two to one.
Feb 25, 2021
A trusty robot to carry farms into the future
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: food, robotics/AI, sustainability
To feed 10 billion by 2050, the world’s farmers will need to increase food production by up to 70%. Bring in the robots.
Feb 25, 2021
Beware of Lazy Bitcoin Research | Insights
Posted by J.P. Medved in categories: bitcoin, energy, sustainability
Bitcoin mining is mainly driven by renewable energy — hydro (by far the largest component), solar, wind and geothermal. Period.
In fact, we’ve estimated the lower bound of renewables penetration in the bitcoin mining energy mix to be 77.6%.
From 2018, but it’s likely gotten better since then.
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Feb 25, 2021
Self-Navigating Robot Cleans up The Ocean
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability
Another robot that cleans trash from bodies of water.
Self-charging, self-navigating and solar-powered! ClearBot was created by Hong Kong engineers as a cheap and effective tool for cleaning up ocean plastic. It det… See More.
Feb 24, 2021
CNN exclusive: A solar panel in space is collecting energy that could one day be beamed to anywhere on Earth
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: military, solar power, space, sustainability
The unit has yet to actually send power directly back to Earth, but that technology has already been proven. If the project develops into huge kilometers-wide space solar antennae, it could beam microwaves that would then be converted into fuel-free electricity to any part of the planet at a moment’s notice.
Scientists working for the Pentagon have successfully tested a solar panel the size of a pizza box in space, designed as a prototype for a future system to send electricity from space back to any point on Earth.
Feb 23, 2021
This Fuel Is About to Power the World’s Biggest Fusion Reactor
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: economics, nuclear energy, sustainability
Whoever manages it first, we are on the cusp of a new age sparked by fusion giving more than it gets (producing more energy than it uses), then miniaturization for practical use and mass manufacture. That would essentially mean that we have access to an infinite, cheap, safe, and clean energy source. No more coal. No more nuclear waste. Massively less global warming. Even better, given the fact that the world runs on an energy economy built around energy scarcity, we will essentially become a post-scarcity civilization. And THAT my friends is a permanent, impossible to overstate game changer. For EVERYTHING and EVERYONE — FOREVER.
But first, scientists need to see if it’s ready.
Feb 23, 2021
Archer Aviation aims to launch network of urban air taxis in Los Angeles by 2024
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: finance, government, sustainability, transportation
Archer Aviation, the electric aircraft startup that recently announced a deal to go public via a merger with a blank-check company, plans to launch a network of its urban air taxis in Los Angeles by 2024.
The announcement comes two months after the formation of the Urban Air Mobility Partnership, a one-year initiative between Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s office, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation and Urban Movement Labs to develop a plan for how to integrate urban aircraft into existing transportation networks and land use policies. Urban Movement Labs, launched in November 2019, is a public-private partnership involving local government and companies to develop, test and deploy transportation technologies. Urban Movement Labs and the city of Los Angeles are working on the design and access of “vertiports,” where people can go to fly on an “urban air mobility” aircraft. Urban air mobility, or UAM, is industry-speak for a highly automated aircraft that can operate and transport passengers or cargo at lower altitudes within urban and suburban areas.
Archer Aviation’s announcement comes two weeks since it landed United Airlines as a customer and an investor in its bid to become a publicly traded company via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company. Archer Aviation reached an agreement in early February to merge with special purpose acquisition company Atlas Crest Investment Corp., an increasingly common financial path that allows the startup to eschew the once traditional IPO process. The combined company, which will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange with ticker symbol “ACHR,” will have an equity valuation of $3.8 billion.
