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New York (AFP) - Tesla boss Elon Musk said Friday the electric vehicle manufacturer would invest over $500 million this year to install new superchargers, just days after a report of massive layoffs in this branch of the company. "Just to reiterate: Tesla will spend well over $500M expanding our Supercharger network to create thousands of NEW chargers this year," Elon said on X. "That's just on new sites and expansions, not counting operations costs, which are much higher," he added. According to tech news outlet The Information on Monday, Tesla was moving to disband its supercharger departmen...
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Taft (United States) (AFP) - Fred Holmes watches with satisfaction as pumps pull oil from deep under his California farm, tapping a supply he thinks could last another century. But he knows the state's ambitious environmental policies will put an end to the practice much sooner than that. Oil extraction "could continue for another 100 years," he told AFP. But it won't. "Twelve to 14 years" for his company at the rate things are changing, he says. California produces 311,000 barrels of crude oil every day, around 2.4 percent of all US production, making it the seventh largest producing state i...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Maui County is suing Hawaii's electricity company over the deadly fire that leveled Lahaina, alleging the destruction could have been avoided if power lines had been shut off. The lawsuit is the latest step in a growing critical focus on the power provider in the wake of the blaze, which killed at least 115 people, with videos apparently showing downed cables setting light to vegetation in the hours before tragedy struck. The lawsuit says there was plenty of warning of strong winds from a nearby hurricane, but Hawaiian Electric and its subsidiaries negligently kept power li...
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Fulton (United States) (AFP) - From her century-old home, Susan Burns has watched the sun set over her cousin's field every day for 75 years. Now her cousin has agreed to have solar panels installed on the field, and an unhappy Burns finds herself in a fight. Huge solar farms are being planned in this corner of Missouri, and as in other rural areas of the United States, residents sometimes are yanking the welcome mat. Foreseeing vast expanses of solar farms replacing cropland, Burns began raising the issue with other community members at the Baptist church across the road. She fears much may ...
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Washington (AFP) - Talk of a possible ban on gas cooking in the United States due to health fears has become the latest rallying cry for US Republicans, joining other more established lines of attack such as gun rights. The noisy debate was sparked by Richard Trumka Jr, a member of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), saying that a ban could not be ruled out due to the "hidden hazard" of gas stove emissions. "Any option is on the table. Products that can't be made safe can be banned," he told Bloomberg News this week following new research showing an increased risk of asthma in ho...
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Washington (AFP) - US researchers announced a historic nuclear fusion breakthrough on Tuesday, hailing a "landmark achievement" in the quest for a source of unlimited, clean power and an end to reliance on fossil fuels. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) said it had used the world's largest laser to create, for the first time, a fusion reaction that replicated the process that powers the sun and generated more energy than it took to produce -– a goal pursued by scientists for decades. Nuclear fusion has been touted by its supporters as a clean, abundant and safe source of energy...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Department of Energy's nuclear fusion laboratory says there will be a "major scientific breakthrough" announced Tuesday, as media report that scientists have finally surpassed an important milestone for the technology: getting more energy out than was put in. The announcement has the scientific community abuzz, as nuclear fusion is considered by some to be the energy of the future, particularly as it produces no greenhouse gases, leaves little waste and has no risk of nuclear accidents. Here is an update on how nuclear fusion works, what projects are underway and esti...
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New York (AFP) - After years of delays, US automaker Tesla is expected on Thursday to deliver its first battery-powered semi truck, with which it hopes to get a jump start on the nascent electric heavy duty vehicle market by offering longer ranges without recharging. The Elon Musk-led company is scheduled to hand over the keys to its first electric truck -- dubbed "Semi" -- at its Nevada manufacturing plant to multinational food company PepsiCo. With its sleek design, the Tesla electric semi has been highly anticipated since Musk unveiled a prototype in 2017, but the launch of full-scale produ...
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Paris (AFP) - Paris climate activists have found a new way to get across their message against energy waste in the City of Light -- switching off store signs and advertising screens that are kept on all night even though the government has urged people to cut back electricity use. At 9:00 pm on a recent evening, around 20 Extinction Rebellion members gathered for a tactical briefing before spreading out on another night-time raid. If the police spot them "we absolutely don't run", says "Joad," a 32-year-old veteran of the movement, detailing out the legal risks and advice for those who might b...
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Lost Creek (United States) (AFP) - Chase Hays says he is "torn." After seeing floods ravage his hamlet in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, he filed a lawsuit against the mine that overlooks it, but the 34-year-old doesn't want to be seen as an "enemy" of coal. Like him, many in his Appalachian region are reluctant to question an industry that has long provided the only high-paying jobs. And with the US midterm elections approaching, few candidates dare talk about climate change. Yet the state has been devastated recently by extreme weather. In December, tornadoes killed 80 people in western ...
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