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China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem

June 22, 2018June 22, 2018 NewsEditorbusiness, China, climate-changed, Environment, Exports, Food, Georgia, Global Trade, Law, TESLA INC, University of Georgia, Vietnam

Few people consider used plastic to be a valuable global commodity. Yet China has imported 106 million tons of old bags, bottles, wrappers and containers worth $57.6 billion since 1992, the first year it disclosed data. So when the country announced last year that it finally had enough of everybody else's junk, governments the world over knew they had a problem. They just didn’t know exactly how large it was. Now they know. By 2030, an estimated 111 million metric tons of used plastic will need to be buried or recycled somewhere else—or not manufactured at…

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Researchers Argue Proposed EPA Changes Could Cause 80,000 More Deaths a Decade

June 16, 2018June 16, 2018 NewsEditorAmerican Medical Association, Barack Obama, business, climate-changed, Conservative, Europe, infrastructure, Investing, Ireland, science, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Two Harvard social scientists, writing an opinion column in a prominent medical journal, have put forward “an extremely conservative estimate” that some 80,000 more Americans could die each decade if proposed changes at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are implemented. The JAMA Forum” feature of the , which allows researchers to offer individual perspectives on health and policy. The EPA dismissed the essay as rhetoric, not research, in a statement provided to Bloomberg News. “This is not a scientific article, it’s a political article. The science is clear, under President Trump greenhouse gas emissions are down, water infrastructure…

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Trump’s Solar Tariffs Mark Biggest Blow to Renewables Yet

January 24, 2018January 24, 2018 NewsEditorasia, BLOOMBERG NEW ENERGY FINANCE, business, China, climate-changed, Donald John Trump, Economics, Energy Industry, New York, politics, Renewable Energy, SUNRUN INC, tax reform

President Donald Trump just dealt his biggest blow to the renewable energy industry yet. On Monday, Trump approved duties of as much as 30 percent on solar equipment made abroad, a move that threatens to handicap a $28 billion industry that relies on parts made abroad for 80 percent of its supply. Just the mere threat of tariffs has shaken solar developers in recent months, with some stalling projects in anticipation of higher costs. The Solar Energy Industries Association has projected 23,000 job losses this year in a sector that employed…

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Bitcoin Could End Up Using More Power Than Electric Cars

January 11, 2018January 11, 2018 NewsEditorArgentina, Bitcoin, BLOOMBERG NEW ENERGY FINANCE, business, China, climate-changed, cryptocurrency, electric vehicles, HYDRO-QUEBEC, Investing, MORGAN STANLEY, Renewable Energy, Technology

The global power needed to create cryptocurrencies this year could rival the entire electricity consumption of Argentina and be a growth driver for renewable energy producers from the U.S. to China. Miners of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies could require up to 140 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2018, about 0.6 percent of the global total, Morgan Stanley analysts led by Nicholas Ashworth wrote in a note Wednesday. That’s more than expected power demand from electric vehicles in 2025. “If cryptocurrencies continue to appreciate we expect global mining power consumption to increase,”…

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Elon Musk Isnt Joking About Sending a Tesla to Mars

December 5, 2017December 5, 2017 NewsEditoraviation, Barack Obama, business, climate-changed, Elon Reeve Musk, Florida, Gwynne E Shotwell, Military, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Sports, Technology, TESLA INC, TWITTER INC

Elon Musk fully intends to put a red sports car made by a company that he runs into an enormous rocket ship made by another company that he runs and fire both into Mars orbit. The car, as it hurtles into space, will be playing a song by David Bowie on repeat. It goes without saying that the song will be “cryptic message on Twitter over the weekend. A person familiar with the launch plan at SpaceX Inc. confirmed that it is real. Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination is Mars…

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Teslas Newest Promises Break the Laws of Batteries

November 26, 2017November 26, 2017 NewsEditorBanking, BLOOMBERG NEW ENERGY FINANCE, business, CAIRN ENERGY PLC, California, climate-changed, Colorado, DAIMLER AG-REGISTERED SHARES, Economics, electric vehicles, Elon Reeve Musk, Technology, TESLA INC

Elon Musk knows how to make promises. Even by his own standards, the promises made last week while introducing two new Tesla vehicles—the heavy-duty Semi Truck and the speedy Roadster—are monuments of envelope pushing. To deliver, according to close observers of battery technology, Tesla would have to far exceed what is currently thought possible. Take the Tesla Semi: Musk vowed it would haul an unprecedented 80,000 pounds for 500 miles on a single charge, then recharge 400 miles of range in 30 minutes. That would require, based on Bloomberg estimates, a charging system that's 10 times more…

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Singapore Will Stop Increasing Car Numbers From February 2018

October 24, 2017October 24, 2017 NewsEditorasia, business, climate-changed, infrastructure, Investing, markets, New York City, Singapore, Space, transportation

Singapore, among the world’s most expensive places to own a vehicle, will stop increasing the total number of cars on its roads next year. The government will cut the annual growth rate for cars and motorcycles to zero from 0.25 percent starting in February, the transport regulator said on Monday. “In view of land constraints and competing needs, there is limited scope for further expansion of the road network," the Land Transport Authority said in a statement on its

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Future Hurricanes Will Be Worse Than Harvey

September 4, 2017September 4, 2017 NewsEditorclimate-changed, science-energy, world

How powerful would Hurricane Harvey have been in 1880? How much stronger might it be in 2100? A single Hurricane Harvey has been more than anyone can bear. But to better prepare cities for future storms, researchers are preparing to re-watch Harvey thousands of times. They’ve already been studying earlier storms, and their conclusions don’t bode well for the decades to come. In the months and years after Superstorm Sandy’s 2012 assault on New Jersey and New York, Gary Lackmann, an atmospheric science professor at North Carolina State University, was asked how…