Why would Exxon donate $1 million to a carbon tax initiative?
Enlarge / MIDLAND, Tex. – JANUARY 20: A pumpjack sits on the outskirts of town at dawn in the Permian Basin oil field on January 21, 2016 in the oil town of Midland, Texas.
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European offshore wind giant buys US’ most successful offshore wind company
Enlarge / Gode wind farm off the coast of Germany.
One of the biggest offshore wind developers in Europe, a Danish company called Ørsted, purchased US offshore wind developer Deepwater Wind on Monday. The …
Are super-cheap solar fields in the Middle East just loss-leaders?
Enlarge / An illustration of what will become the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park (Phase III).
In recent years, massive solar projects proposed for the Middle East have grabbed headlines with extremely …
Hate your Comcast broadband? Verizon might sell you 5G home Internet
Verizon’s launch of 5G home Internet targeted four cities dominated by either Comcast or Charter, and Verizon says it will continue to bring the service to densely populated areas dominated by cable companies.
The …
Elon Musk isn’t on his Twitter leash yet, so he’s taunting the SEC
Enlarge (credit: Trevor Mahlmann for Ars Technica)
On Saturday, Elon Musk settled a lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission claiming that he had violated federal securities laws by tweeting that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private.
Company that sucks CO2 from air announces a new methane-producing plant
Enlarge / Air capture at Climeworks’ Troia, Italy, plant.
It’s been a banner week for hydrocarbons made from waste gases. Earlier this week, a company announced that it had delivered 4,000 gallons of jet …
GM’s self-driving deal with Honda is a wakeup call for Waymo
Enlarge / Cruise second-generation test vehicles, assembled at GM’s Lake Orion plant in Michigan. (credit: Cruise)
Honda announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to invest $750 million in Cruise, GM’s self-driving car company. On top of that, Honda
It’s been 5 years since Elon Musk proposed a Hyperloop design
Enlarge / Hyperloop Transportation Technologies’ new passenger capsule. (credit: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies)
In August 2013, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk published a white paper detailing a “Hyperloop,” a super-fast passenger train that would overcome the usual friction by levitating