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Surface temperatures in Siberia heat up to a mind-boggling 50 C

Surface temperatures in Siberia heat up to a mind-boggling 50 C

Temperature-tracking satellites are monitoring sweltering heat above the Arctic Circle . t's not just the Western region of the US that's sweltering right now. Siberia in Russia is baking, and satellites are bearing witness to a brutal heat wave above the Arctic Circle. Copernicus Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B satellites captured a snapshot of land surface temperatures on June 20, and it was hot. According to NASA, "Land surface temperature is how hot the 'surface' of the Earth would feel to the touch in a particular location." The Sentinel image shows a peak ground temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius) near Verkhojansk,...

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New CO2 battery will make wind and solar dispatchable 'at an unprecedented low price'

New CO2 battery will make wind and solar dispatchable 'at an unprecedented low price'

Milan-based Energy Dome’s power-storage system promises highest round-trip efficiency yet for long-duration energy storage, CEO Claudio Spadacini tells Recharge Italian start-up Energy Dome says that its new long-duration “CO2 battery” system, which only uses off-the-shelf equipment will achieve a levelised cost of storage (LCOS) of $50-60/MWh in the next few years. That would be more than twice as low as the LCOS of lithium-ion batteries — $132-245/MWh, according to Lazard — and almost twice as cheap as current long-duration storage market leader Highview Power’s CRYObattery ($100/MWh, according to a 2019 interview with Recharge). Chief executive Claudio Spadacini tells Recharge that Energy Dome's thermodynamic liquid-CO2 system...

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This 400 square foot foldable house can be put up in one day and is able to attach to any foundation

This 400 square foot foldable house can be put up in one day and is able to attach to any foundation

3D printing has become the hottest new construction technology of the past few years, with houses being laid down in California, Texas, New York, Mexico, Canada, Italy, and Germany, to name just a few. There’s no doubt it’s an efficient, low-cost way to build durable homes, with the added bonus of a wow-factor (which may soon expire given how fast the method seems to be proliferating). But one company is taking a totally different route to affordable, easy-to-build housing: foldable homes. If, like me, your first thought was “Foldable? That doesn’t sound like something I’d want to live in, or something anyone should live in, for that matter”—hear...

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ARK Invest: Tesla’s $12 Trillion Opportunity (new research)

ARK Invest: Tesla’s $12 Trillion Opportunity (new research)

Solving the  money problem

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Tesla releases big, new software update with Disney+, Car Wash Mode, hotspot, and more

Tesla releases big, new software update with Disney+, Car Wash Mode, hotspot, and more

Tesla has started to push a new software update to its fleet today, and it’s one of the bigger ones with several new features, including Disney+, Car Wash Mode, hotspot capability, and more.   AD   For years now, Tesla has been leading the auto industry when it comes to over-the-air software update capability. Much like the smartphone industry, the automaker regularly releases software updates with new features and UI improvements to the in-car and ownership experience. Often, those software updates are quite small and only add a few barely noticeable improvements, but now and again, Tesla does push some...

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