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☆ The craziest Airbnb designs that just won $100,000, from a ghost town gondola and acorn treehouse to a salt cave and Koi fish dome-house,
  + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Sarah Belle Lin | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Airbnb awarded 100 recipients $100,000 each to design out-of-this-world properties. But for those looking to step inside an Airbnb and have their minds blown, there's a specific category for that: the OMG! Judges representing Airbnb chose 100 winners from more than 20 countries to award $100,000 each to bring their designs to life. properties. Common themes submitted included stargazing experiences, musical themes, fruit-, mushroom- and wine-inspired, treehouses, and solar panels to boost sustainable energy.
☆ Arizona GOP governor candidate Kari Lake, who has spread election conspiracies, raises cash from business leaders
  + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +6 min
Arizona republican candidate for governor Kari Lake greets the audience during a stop on the Truth and Courage PAC's Take Back America Bus Tour with U.S. Lake is endorsed by Trump, who spread false conspiracies that he lost that 2020 election because of widespread voter fraud. He helped to fuel the wave of GOP candidates who have run for office while casting doubts on the 2020 results. Ducey certified Arizona's 2020 election results. Hobbs, as the state's top election official, has denied any irregularities in the 2020 election.
☆ America's largest lithium mine ramps up production as the world moves to sustainable energy
  + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailAmerica's largest lithium mine ramps up production as the world moves to sustainable energyCNBC’s Pippa Stevens got a look at the only active lithium mine in the entire U.S. She joins Tyler Mathisen and 'The News with Shepard Smith' to report on what she found.
☆ G7 finance leaders pledge to intensify climate efforts despite war challenges
  + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Finance leaders from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies on Wednesday pledged to increase emissions reductions efforts and climate support for developing countries despite energy cost and security challenges prompted by Russia's war in Ukraine. Meeting on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings in Washington, the G7 finance ministers and central bank governors reaffirmed in a statement their commitment to achieving net zero emissions goals by 2050. The officials said Russia's war against Ukraine has caused substantial increases in energy and food prices and was severely impacting energy markets and supplies globally. The G7 ministers and governors also said that the development of high integrity carbon markets and carbon pricing would foster cost-efficient reductions in emission levels, and drive climate innovation. They also pledged to cooperate on possible trade mechanisms aimed at preventing "carbon leakage," or the shift of carbon emissions to countries with lower environmental standards.
☆ Elon Musk sells $1 million worth of new perfume, 'Burnt Hair'
  + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Oct 12 (Reuters) - The world's richest man, Elon Musk, has scented a new opportunity to capitalise on quirky products, launching a perfume called "Burnt Hair" that he said sold 10,000 bottles to earn a million dollars in just a few hours. Musk asked on Twitter, where he now describes himself as a perfume salesman. His Boring Company, a tunnelling firm last valued at $5.7 billion, sold flamethrowers at $500 apiece in early 2018, raising $10 million. He also sold 50,000 Boring Company hats. The Boring Company did not respond to a query on how long it planned to keep the perfume listed.
☆ Namibia can become green energy exporter, says first lady
  + stars: | 2022-09-30 | by ( Mark Tutton | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
Green hydrogen (hydrogen produced using renewable energy) is being touted as a clean alternative to fossil fuels that could power heavy industry and transport. EU officials said this summer that they hoped to strike a deal to help Namibia develop its green hydrogen sector. The southern African nation is set to open the continent’s first green hydrogen production plant in 2024, operated by French power company HDF Energy. Namibia’s first hydrogen power plant is expected to be up and running in 2024, and there’s also a potential plan in place to partner with the EU on green hydrogen. Geingos: It is clear that Namibia’s green hydrogen plans extend beyond domestic energy self-sufficiency.
☆ Bitcoin mining struggles to go green, research shows
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Tom Wilson | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
REUTERS/Edgar SuLONDON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Bitcoin is struggling to go green, with the cryptocurrency making only slim gains in its usage of sustainable energy in the year to January, research by Cambridge university showed on Tuesday. Processing bitcoin transactions and "mining" new tokens is done by powerful computers, hooked up to a global network, that compete against others to solve complex mathematical puzzles. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterProjects have sought ways to shift bitcoin mining towards cleaner energy, such as repurposing heat byproducts from oil extraction for crypto mining. Bitcoin mining is mostly unregulated and opaque, with few centralised bodies gathering data. The Cambridge study was based on data on the geographical spread of mining across the world and the energy mix of individual countries.
☆ BlackRock's US head of thematic exchange-traded funds shares 3 sectors to invest in to fight inflation and set your portfolio up for long-term gains
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Lisa Kailai Han | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Jacobs shared three inflation-resistant sectors to invest in for long-term gains. It's no different for Jay Jacobs, the US head of thematics and active equity exchange-traded funds at BlackRock, which manages $10 trillion in assets. Due to rising food prices, Jacobs also believes that agricultural technology firms focused on food innovation are another long-term beneficiary of lofty inflation levels. According to Jacobs, most costs are upfront for greener energy solutions, like the cost to build a wind turbine or solar panel. These include tax policies favoring renewable energy solutions, growing energy demand from consumers for cleaner options like electric vehicles, and the fact that renewable energy is often inherently cheaper than the electricity generated from fossil fuels.
☆ How the airline industry plans to wean itself off one billion tons of carbon emissions
  + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Trevor Laurence Jockims | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +9 min
But Taylor has nothing on the airline industry, whose annual CO2 emission is pushing one billion metric tons. Airlines have completed test flights with sustainable aviation fuels, and the deals with sustainable aviation fuel producers have started to accumulate. American is the first airline globally to receive validation from the Science Based Targets initiative for its intermediate GHG emissions reduction targets and the only U.S. airline to report using more than 1 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel in 2021. From ethanol, Gevo then processes further into a product that is chemically identical to standard aviation fuel. Judged against the standards of its own industry, American remains a leader in carbon reduction efforts.
☆ Manchin bemoans the 'strange bedfellows' of Bernie Sanders and the Senate GOP teaming up to oppose his plan to streamline construction of fossil fuel projects
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Joseph Zeballos-Roig | Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Manchin bemoaned the bipartisan opposition that's brewing against his energy bill. "What I'm hearing is that this is like revenge politics," Manchin said Tuesday. Democratic leaders want to overhaul the permitting process for fossil fuel and clean energy projects. "I've been around a long time in state politics and federal politics," Manchin said at a Tuesday press conference. That Democrat-only bill poured $433 billion into clean energy tax credits, healthcare subsidies and imposed a minimum tax on profitable corporations.
☆ Crypto’s bear market is unlike others before it. This time the Fed's steering the ship
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Tanaya Macheel | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +17 min
In any other year, the bitcoin price would have skyrocketed after the BlackRock announcement, but it didn't. Bitcoin hit its all-time high on Nov. 8, less than a week after the Fed first introduced the tapering . "Bitcoin OGs want to believe that it's a risk-off asset – that's a long-term trajectory," said Burak Tamac, senior researcher at CryptoQuant. It's bitcoin that's received so much hostility about being environmentally unfriendly, but myths about the cryptocurrency's environmental impact are slowly being debunked . Beyond bitcoin, crypto remains just a little too out of reach for many.
☆ Nigeria is oil rich and energy poor. It can’t wait around for cheaper batteries
  + stars: | 2021-11-03 | by ( Hanna Ziady | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +15 min
But it’s coming under huge pressure from developed countries to abandon fossil fuels and shift to renewable energy in order to help save the climate. AKINTUNDE AKINLEYE/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockLike the United States, Europe and Britain, Nigeria sees a prominent role for renewable energy, notwithstanding its investments into gas power. “In Nigeria, clean energy is central to our government’s plan to transition to net-zero emissions,” Osinbajo, the vice president, continued. In Nigeria, energy poverty is itself a major driver of emissions, according to Olu Verheijen, the founder of Lagos-based energy advisory business Latimer Energy. This means that in some cases, certainly for Nigeria, gas has an important role to play in providing power.
☆ See the pitch deck quantum computing startup Pasqal used to raise $29.3 million and compete with Google and IBM
  + stars: | 2021-10-05 | by ( Rosalie Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
This is the pitch deck French quantum computing startup Pasqal used to raise a $29.3 million Series A in June. Pasqal competes with giants like IBM, Microsoft, Google, Intel, and Amazon in quantum computing. The French quantum computing startup Pasqal has big plans for the next two years. It's planning to provide cloud access to its quantum computing services to customers by the end of 2022 and a full quantum computing device operating on the cloud by 2023. Still, cloud quantum computing is early, and some experts predict it may take another five to 10 years to be ready for commercial use.
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