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TT 193
Highlights/News/Events
- Reformed Bitcoin miner: Elon Musk’s $1.5 billion bet is ‘crazy’ https://fortune.com/2021/02/13/elon-musk-tesla-bitcoin-bet-1-5-billion-alex-pickard/
- “Few observers are better qualified than Alex Pickard to assess Elon Musk’s decision” to channel $1.5 billion of Tesla’s corporate cash into Bitcoin
- https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_fee
SOLAR & RENEWABLE ENERGY
- https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-wind-turbines-frozen/ and
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-56085733
- Jenny Chase, Bloomberg analyst, predicts up to 194 GW of solar this year https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/01/20/jenny-chase-predicts-up-to-194-gw-of-solar-this-year/?fbclid=IwAR3t1YhrWkHLJfoHef15lrDtfN2SGMDdewEf1X-w0pfavynGIPEf8S88gjU
- Average module prices fall a further $0.02/W to $0.18/W this year with the Chinese government, removing all obstacles for new investments (will this flair up anti-chinese sentiment re. Flooding the solar PV market? And in that anticalitalistic?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Wind_Power_Hub
- https://nation.com.pk/14-Mar-2017/crazy-artificial-island-could-power-europe-by-2050
- New EU financing mechanism set to boost PV investments https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/12/19/the-weekend-read-disrupting-developments/
- A Monster Wind Turbine Is Upending an Industry https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/business/GE-wind-turbine.html
- Vineyard Wind, a large wind farm off Massachusetts, .
MEDIA PICKS
- Mel - Wanda Vision - Disney
- Robert - ???
- Tom - in-of-itself - Hulu
Joel - ReThinkX youtube channel
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