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Feb 15, 2022

Tesla’s Elon Musk donates over 5 million TSLA shares to charity, reveals SEC filings

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Tesla CEO Elon Musk donated over 5 million TSLA shares to an undisclosed charity, according to a SEC Form 5 filed on Monday, February 14, 2022.

The filing reveals that Elon Musk donated approximately 5,044,000 TSLA shares worth about $4.42 billion, considering that Tesla stock is priced at $875.76 as of this writing. Based on the SEC filing, Elon Musk started donating the stocks on November 19, 2021, a time when over 5 million TSLA shares were worth roughly $5.74 billion.

The transaction code for the stock was filed under “G,” which stands for “Gift of securities by or to the insider” or “Bonafide gift.” Under “Explanation of Responses,” the filing reads: “Represent a bona fide gift of the Issuer’s common stock by the Reporting Person to charity.” The charity Elon Musk donated to was not revealed.

Feb 15, 2022

Dominican Republik: A picture-perfekt solar park

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

The Dominican Republic is home to the largest solar park in the Caribbean. It was built by F&S Solar. The company based in Euskirchen, Germany, has relied exclusively on Lapp for many years.

Feb 14, 2022

‘Expensive’ energy from biomass plant will cost three times that of solar power and drive up bills

Posted by in categories: government, solar power, sustainability

Poor value of long-delayed biomass project leads Tory peer to say ‘the Government is backing a dead horse’ in sustainability drive.

Feb 14, 2022

The DeLorean Is Officially Back, And It’s Electric

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

The DeLorean is returning in 2022 as an electric vehicle, reviving the brand made famous by Back to the Future.

Feb 14, 2022

Elon Musk — People Don’t Realize What’s Coming!

Posted by in categories: business, climatology, education, Elon Musk, law, space, sustainability

He’s absolutely right about birth rates and its implications for our species. OVER population is a disproven concept as far as our near and near-far future goes.


Elon Musk is the charismatic co-founder of PayPal and Tesla, as well as the founder of SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Company. He serves as CEO of Tesla and CEO/lead designer of SpaceX. Watch along as he explains why earth doesn’t have a lot of time left.

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Feb 14, 2022

World Economic Forum 2021 Global Risk Report Doesn’t Sugarcoat Anything

Posted by in categories: climatology, sustainability

We now know the power that political leaders can wield when the challenge demands it giving us the means to combat climate change.

Feb 14, 2022

Tesla plans to build new design center in Beijing this year, Chinese government says

Posted by in categories: engineering, government, sustainability, transportation

Tesla is planning to build its new design center in Beijing later this year, according to a new document released by the Chinese government.

Shortly after announcing Gigafactory Shanghai, Tesla made it clear that it not only wants to tap into China’s incredible capacity in manufacturing, but it also wants to take advantage of the country’s incredible engineering and design talent.

In early 2020, Tesla announced plans to establish a new R&D center and a new design center in China to build “a Chinese-style” electric car.

Feb 13, 2022

Intel says its new crypto chip is designed to be energy-efficient

Posted by in categories: blockchains, computing, cryptocurrencies, sustainability

Its “blockchain accelerator” is set to ship later this year.


Intel is working on a new sustainability-focused chip designed to mine cryptocurrency. One of its first customers include the Jack Dorsey-owned fintech company Block (formerly known as Square).

Feb 13, 2022

Big Breakthrough for “Massless” Energy Storage: Structural Battery That Performs 10x Better Than All Previous Versions

Posted by in categories: chemistry, energy, physics, sustainability, transportation

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. It contains carbon fiber that serves simultaneously as an electrode, conductor, and load-bearing material. Their latest research breakthrough paves the way for essentially ’massless’ energy storage in vehicles and other technology.

The batteries in today’s electric cars constitute a large part of the vehicles’ weight, without fulfilling any load-bearing function. A structural battery, on the other hand, is one that works as both a power source and as part of the structure – for example, in a car body. This is termed ‘massless’ energy storage, because in essence the battery’s weight vanishes when it becomes part of the load-bearing structure. Calculations show that this type of multifunctional battery could greatly reduce the weight of an electric vehicle.

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Feb 13, 2022

Stephen Hawking Predicted a Race of ‘Superhumans’ To Take Over the World

Posted by in categories: alien life, genetics, physics, robotics/AI, sustainability

Stephen Hawking made terrifying predictions of the future. Based on science, the late British physicists predicted several things that could happen on Earth, from the rise of powerful Artificial intelligence to fearful robots poised to destroy humankind. Hawking also spoke about how it was dangerous to search for aliens and how global warming could destroy Earth as we know it.

However, Stephen Hawking also spoke about how abrupt advances in genetic science could lead to creating a future generation of superhumans that could eventually destroy humanity as we know it.

In recently published papers, Prof. Hawking predicted that an elite class of physically altered, intellectually powerful humans could come into existence from rich people choosing to edit their existing DNA and manipulate future generations’ genetic markup.