UK shines with 1.5m home solar installations

https://www.energylivenews.com/2024/05/22/uk-shines-with-1-5m-home-solar-installations

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‘Campaigns of misinformation’ around heat pumps as myths debunked (msn.com)

‘Campaigns of misinformation’ around heat pumps as myths debunked (msn.com)

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You can force employees to come back to the office, but not the good ones!

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0521/1450272-return-to-office-mandates-employees-work-from-home

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How to put an electric car on your driveway for as little as £900 (2020)

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/used-cars/how-put-electric-car-your-driveway-little-%C2%A3900 The company behind the scheme is called New Electric, a Dutch-Irish firm whose primary corporate task is converting big corporate vehicle fleets to electric power. It has an offshoot, though, based in Arklow, in County Wicklow, just south of Dublin. Here, the emphasis is not on big fleets nor corporate largesse, but on converting perfectly good […]

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I went a week without ultra-processed foods. Here’s what I learned

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/22/eliminating-ultra-processed-foods-pros-cons

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Truck battery swap in China – 350kwh unit

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EVs are already ~10% of Ethiopia’s auto FLEET!

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Ghana Economy Dashboard

This Page is pages that are relevant to some economic activity in Ghana https://www.volza.com/p/ethanol/buyers/buyers-in-ghana – ethanol buyers in ghana https://tradingeconomics.com/ghana/3-month-bill-yield https://cedirates.com/exchangerates/gbp https://www.gtbank.com/financial-calculators https://oec.world/en/profile/country/gha https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-top-export-in-every-country https://wits.worldbank.org/CountrySnapshot/en/GHA/textview

The utilization of waste cooking oil (wco) in simple stove as an alternative fuel for household scale

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348108657_The_utilization_of_waste_cooking_oil_wco_in_simple_stove_as_an_alternative_fuel_for_household_scale

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Design and Fabrication of a Palm Oil Pressure Stove

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/310797036_Design_and_Fabrication_of_a_Palm_Oil_Pressure_Stove The use of the pressurized palm oil as fuel for cooking stove has numerous ecological, environmental and economic benefits. The design took into consideration the problems of reducing the vapourization period, efficiency of combustion, availability of raw materials, maintainability and the user’s safety, period of atomization and complexity. Atomisation is the process whereby bulk […]

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‘Oracle of Omaha’ says if top companies paid tax like his, Americans wouldn’t pay anything

https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/oracle-of-omaha-says-higher-taxes-necessary-but-not-on-americans-corporations-economy-national-debt-warren-buffett OMAHA, Nebraska — Warren Buffett, the man of modest living who leads one of the most successful investment firms in history, says the American People would no longer have to pay taxes, if the top companies would simply pay their fair share. While it might sound outrageous, the numbers appear to back it up. Buffett […]

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Elon Musk’s plan to address the “very solvable” water scarcity crisis

https://newatlas.com/environment/elon-water-plan/?itm_source=ocelot&itm_medium=recirculation&itm_campaign=ocelot_e079a01&itm_content=recommendation_2 energy and transportation of water is the issue, which is getting cheaper all the time. Solar + batteries makes this quite solvable. Agree with the page but cost is an issue.

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Africa’s car-making juggernaut prepares to capitalize on the global race to produce affordable EVs at scale

https://fortune.com/2024/05/15/morocco-africa-car-factory-ev

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Ghana House Rent Project

3 bedroom furnished house for sale at TEMA COMMUNITY 25 (100 000 – £50 000) https://meqasa.com/house-for-sale-at-TEMA-COMMUNITY-25-365472?y=925985006 Executives 4 Bedroom Plus Boys Quqrters At Ashaley Botwe $70000 (think real price is 470000 usd) https://www.privatepropertyghana.com/listings/4-bedroom-house-for-sale-ashaley-botwe-adenta-municipal-accra-4PAFJN 5 Bedrooms House For Rent In Devtraco Estate At Tema Comm 25 – 10000 GHS – target property https://www.businessghana.com/site/real-estates/properties/439746/5-Bedrooms-House-for-Rent-in-Devtraco-Estate-at-Tema-com-25 6 Bedrooms House […]

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Igbo landing: Remembering enslaved Africans who chose death over slavery by walking into the ocean

https://scoop.upworthy.com/remembering-enslaved-africans-who-found-dignity-in-death-over-slavery-walked-into-ocean-in-chains-561297-561297-561297-561297-561297-561297-561297

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Volkswagen Group Africa Adds 3 MW Solar PV Carport At Its Kariega Car Factory

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Octopus says 150,000 customers are getting £600 off their energy bills

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/octopus-says-150000-customers-getting-29170303 150,000 EV batteries are combined into a virtual power plant via Octopus Energy’s proprietary technology platform, Kraken. Octopus Energy has announced the UK’s most popular electric vehicle (EV) tariff, Intelligent Octopus Go, now manages a combined 1 gigawatt (GW) worth of EV batteries. 150,000 EV batteries are combined into a virtual power plant via Octopus Energy’s […]

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Octopus Energy announces ‘zero bills’ for thousands of customers ‘for ten years’

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/octopus-energy-announces-zero-bills-29190310 octopus energy working with Perenna bank to offer discount on mortgages may work with loans for renewable energy at home too.

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BMW I3 and Nissan Leaf Battery Upgrades

I wish europeans and the west in general were more ambitious – we have become lazy….. I thought there would be shops setting to do these at affordable prices all over the shop after 10 years of EVs. Anyways…. Nissan Leaf Battery Upgrades: https://www.vivnevs.com/products BMW I3 Battery Upgrades https://www.i3upgrade.cz/en https://insideevs.com/news/484717/upgrade-bmw-i3-battery-pack-120-ah BMW I3 Range extender generator […]

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I make £36k a MONTH as a landlord at age 31 – trolls accuse me of ‘driving up prices’ but I’m bringing back luxury pads

https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/27933657/property-business-money-side-hustle-success/amp An avid saver, he had been putting away £2,000 each month while still employed. Taking the plunge to join Britain’s landlords, he took a gamble and used his £25,000 savings pot to invest in education around property buying. Now, he has a portfolio of £4.5m across nine properties, earning him £36,000 per month – more than the average Brit’s […]

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