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Latam Insights: Bitcoin Farm Found at Venezuelan Jail, Bill Protecting Crypto From Seizure Advances in Brazil – Bitcoin News

September 26, 2023
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: a Bitcoin mining farm is discovered during a raid on a Venezuelan jail, a bill that protects crypto from seizure advances in Brazil, and the Chilean police find a Bitcoin farm during a drug raid. Bitcoin Farm Found in Venezuelan Jail A Bitcoin mining farm was…
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DefenseNews

Joby’s air taxis to help US Air Force usher in electric aviation era

September 25, 2023
WASHINGTON — The Air Force’s project to add electric air taxis to its fleet took a big step forward Monday, as Joby Aviation delivered the first such vehicle to Edwards Air Force Base in California for real-world testing. AFWERX, the Air Force’s innovation cell, launched its Agility Prime effort in 2020 to work with industry to develop electric vertical takeoff-and-landing aircraft. Until…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Solar and battery storage prices have dropped almost 90% in 10 years

September 25, 2023
The cost of solar power has fallen by 87%, and battery storage by 85% in the past decade, according to a new study – here’s why. Berlin-based scientific think tank Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) has released in the journal Energy Research & Social Science in which the researchers compared the corresponding findings from innovation reports with the…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

First look at Ukraine’s new electric combat kayaks with grenade launchers

September 25, 2023
Ukraine has a silent but deadly new weapon in its arsenal: electric combat kayaks  Over a year and a half into a defensive war against a Russian invasion, necessity has forced Ukraine to be extremely creative in the face of the enemy’s larger collection of war materiel. In the past, that has included electric bicycles custom outfitted with anti-tank middles, and now we’re getting our first…
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