'It's robbery': Salvadorans slow to adopt Bitcoin
Two years ago, El Salvador shrugged off a chorus of warnings and adopted Bitcoin as legal tender in a bid to revitalize its economy and improve access to financial services.
Sep 7, 2023
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Global tensions risk clean energy progress: IEA chief
The head of the International Energy Agency urged the United States and China to set aside their differences and align on climate change, warning in an interview Monday that "geopolitical fractures" risked holding back the ...
Sep 4, 2023
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AI and new standards promise to make scientific data more useful by making it reusable and accessible
Every time a scientist runs an experiment, or a social scientist does a survey, or a humanities scholar analyzes a text, they generate data. Science runs on data—without it, we wouldn't have the James Webb Space Telescope's ...
Aug 22, 2023
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Tech breakthrough could boost states' use of geothermal power
Lawmakers in some states have been laying the groundwork to add geothermal power to the electrical grid and pump underground heat into buildings. Now, a technological breakthrough could dramatically expand those ambitions—and ...
Aug 14, 2023
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New York couple plead guilty to bitcoin laundering
A married couple from New York dubbed "Bitcoin Bonnie and Crypto Clyde" pleaded guilty on Thursday to laundering billions of dollars in stolen bitcoin, prosecutors announced.
Aug 3, 2023
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Solar panels on water canals seem like a no-brainer. So why aren't they widespread?
Back in 2015, California's dry earth was crunching under a fourth year of drought. Then-Governor Jerry Brown ordered an unprecedented 25% reduction in home water use. Farmers, who use the most water, volunteered too to avoid ...
Jul 20, 2023
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Using green banks to solve America's affordable housing crisis—and climate change at the same time
Green banks are starting to draw attention in the U.S., particularly since the federal government announced its first grant competitions under a national green bank program to bring clean technology and more affordable energy ...
Jul 19, 2023
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Publicly owned energy firm can stop UK losing out on green transition and jobs, report says
A publicly owned energy company is needed to develop a homegrown green industry in the UK, at a time when the country is trailing internationally in the shift to a low-carbon economy, a new report by energy economist Nick ...
Jun 21, 2023
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Michigan launches consortium of higher ed, employers to prepare semiconductor workforce
The Michigan Economic Development Corp., the state's economic development organization, is spearheading the launch of a consortium of higher education institutions and employers to train workers for jobs in the growing semiconductor ...
May 25, 2023
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Will Biden's hard-hat environmentalism bridge the divide on clean energy future?
When John Podesta left his job as an adviser to President Barack Obama nearly a decade ago, he was confident that hundreds of miles of new power transmission lines were coming to the Southwest, expanding the reach of clean ...
May 20, 2023
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