Danish wind turbine giant Vestas has announced today that it, along with a coalition of industry and academic leaders, has figured out how to fully recycle wind turbine blades. Fully recycling wind turbine blades As Electrek previously reported at the end of April, the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and Norwegian offshore wind developer Aker Offshore
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Elon Musk announced this week that Tesla would pause accepting Bitcoin for Tesla purchases, citing the cryptocurrency’s energy usage. He also specifically criticized one fossil fuel power plant in New York, which as Arstechnica reported, was revived to mine Bitcoin. Now the firm behind that plant, Greenidge, is already making moves. Greenidge announced Friday (via
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The broadcast of a BBC TV investigation into Martin Bashir’s 1995 interview with Princess Diana will be delayed. The broadcaster said the probe, which was due to air as a Panorama programme, has been postponed due to a “significant duty of care issue”. It had been due to go out on BBC One on Monday
A Tesla Model S Plaid (or maybe even Plaid+) prototype with an insane retractable spoiler has been spotted on the Laguna Seca race track – trying to beat some record. While Tesla has yet to deliver the new Model S, the hype is not dying down. The new version comes with a new interior and
Every week I put on my journalistic scuba gear and dive to the bottom of the abandoned strip-mine-turned-reservoir that is the Alibaba electric vehicle catalogue in order to find the most audacious EVs available. Most of the time I’m so enthralled by the craziness of what I find that I have to resist the urge
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GM’s new 2022 Chevy Bolt EV and BoltEUV have received their official EPA ranges, and it’s pretty much on the mark except for the electric crossover coming in a bit short. We are finally about to get the new Chevy Bolt EV and its new younger but bigger brother, the Bolt EUV. When GM announced
Reality TV star Stephen Bear has been charged in connection with revenge porn allegations, Essex Police has said. The 31-year-old former Celebrity Big Brother winner was arrested at Heathrow Airport earlier this year while arriving back from Dubai, but was later released on bail. Bear, who has appeared in a raft of reality shows, has
Black Panther is the next Avenger to assemble in Madame Tussauds after the waxwork was unveiled at the iconic London venue. The king of Wakanda has joined the Marvel Hall of Heroes at the tourist attraction alongside Captain Marvel and the Hulk. It features a futuristic “vibranium effect”, named after the fictional metal mined in
Washington State’s 2030 gas car ban is no more, due to a veto by Washington Governor Jay Inslee. He had been expected to sign the bill this morning, but vetoed it stating that “achieving a goal of 100% electric vehicles is too important to tie to the implementation of a separate policy like the road
The much-anticipated Friends reunion will be broadcast on 27 May, HBO has announced. Friends: The Reunion, which will feature all six members of the original cast, was supposed to have been filmed over a year ago but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The unscripted, one-off special was instead filmed earlier this year on
Ford is bringing a software update to its vehicles, starting with the Mustang Mach-E electric crossover and F150 pickup. The automaker is using its new over-the-air software capacity to follow Tesla into in-car gaming and add Amazon Alexa integration. Tesla pioneered the concept of bringing over-the-air software updates inside vehicles. It gave the automaker an
Barry Jenkins’ new limited series The Underground Railroad has been a long time coming for the Oscar-winning filmmaker, who says he has always wanted to make something related to the “American condition of slavery”. The show is adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, which re-imagines the underground railroad – a network
Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot is facing criticism after posting a message calling for an end to the ongoing violence between Israel and Palestine. Posting a statement on Twitter, Gadot, who is Israeli and served in the Israeli army before she rose to fame, shared her fears for her friends and family and said that
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