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BlackRock’s Carbon Transition Fund is swimming in Big Oil

The BlackRock US Carbon Transition Readiness exchange-traded fund (ETF) (LCTU) launched last week. It broke records on its first trading day with $1.25 billion invested. But there’s a big problem with this ETF: It’s jam-packed with Big Oil companies. BlackRock’s fund contains Big Oil As the Fossil Free Funds website points out, BlackRock’s fund includes major oil and gas companies…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Bye eFlyer 800 will fly you and 7 of your closest friends 500nm at 320 knots, or more with solar

As a pilot and electric vehicle enthusiast, I’ve been waiting for a larger cabin aircraft to emerge from all of the electric startups. Bye aircraft, which is named after its founder, George E. Bye, not the salutation, may have a winner in its new gorgeous turboprop-class eFlyer 800… The eFlyer 800, announced today, will have only one-fifth the operating costs of traditional twin turboprops…
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DefenseNews

F-35 program office announces a “strategic pause” on new logistics system

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department is pausing its efforts to field replacement software for the F-35′s troubled logistics system due to a lack of funding, the head of the F-35 program office said Thursday. In 2020, the F-35 program executive office announced plans to develop a replacement for the Lockheed Martin-made Autonomic Logistics Information System currently used by maintenance…
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GamingNews

Rob Kostich interview: After 400 million Call of Duty games sold, Activision still has big plans ahead

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. The Call of Duty franchise is one of the strongest in video games, with more than 400 million copies sold to date. Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War are moving to Season 3‘s new content today, and that gave us a reason to catch up with the boss, Rob Kostich. He’s the president of…
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