Month: November 2020

Four astronauts riding a newly designed spacecraft from Elon Musk’s SpaceX docked with the International Space Station Monday night, in the first crewed mission on a privately built space capsule purchased by NASA. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, dubbed Resilience by its crew of three Americans and one Japanese astronaut, docked at 11:01pm EST (9:31am Tuesday IST), 27 hours
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US President Donald Trump asked for options on attacking Iranian nuclear sites last week, according to an official, before ultimately deciding against it. Mr Trump, who has yet refused to concede that he lost the presidential election, apparently made the request during an Oval Office meeting last week, which included Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary
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US president-elect Joe Biden has said “more people may die” if the Trump administration does not help ensure a smooth transfer of power. Mr Biden also said he was hopeful Mr Trump would be “mildly more enlightened” before the incoming president’s inauguration on 20 January. Despite mounting public pressure, the Republican’s administration has refused to
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November 16th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan  As we’ve been reporting recently, everyone (the fossil-friendly International Energy Agency) and their mother (Lazard) have concluded that solar and wind offer the cheapest options for new electricity capacity, and new solar and wind power plants can even undercut the operational costs of existing fossil and nuclear power plants.
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