This story is inspired by a friend from my day job who is a successful Technical Project Manager. I’m known at work as the “Tesla Guy” since I rave about the car if given the slightest opportunity, so when my friend Raquel Aluisy approached me for information on the car, I was more than happy to give her a test ride and explain what makes the Model 3 so special.
You can bet your bottom dollar that nuclear power stakeholders will be happy to solve the bitcoin carbon emissions problem.
Patience is a virtue. After a long wait, UK customers can now place their orders for the Tesla Model 3 — for June delivery. Prices for the Standard Range Plus, which includes Autopilot, starts at £38,900 (on-the-road price, after incentives). Get your order in quickly if you want early delivery.
The 20 most popular CleanTechnica articles in October are listed below. Before running through the list, though, I’ll summarize a few key groupings.
The top 20 CleanTechnica stories of the past week included all kinds of Tesla fun, but not only. Read on and click through in case you missed a hot Tesla story and to enjoy the non-Tesla cleantech fun.
When I saw the new battery option, I knew I needed to update the total cost of ownership (TCO) model for the Model 3 and see how that affects the cost of ownership for potential customers.
The most popular articles of the past week included not a single article about Tesla.
Psych.
As usual, Tesla stories rose to the top of the pack in terms of eyeballs and shares. In fact, the top article has scored over half a million pageviews.
The US Department of Energy is betting on new cutting edge concentrating solar power technology to make renewable energy more efficient and less expensive, but the bigger question is can renewables keep up with the bitcoin explosion?
One industry which is actively working with Blockchain technology is the energy sector, a traditionally “un-innovative” sector with well established near-monopolies. In this sector, Blockchain is already enabling peer-to-peer energy transactions between neighbors. Imagine that your solar panels are going to deliver energy to the grid and/or charge your batteries at the most convenient time. And it all lies in the palm of your hand.
Bitcoin is very interesting for cleantech for two reasons. One is obvious: the primary currency sucks a lot of electricity, and more electricity demand is good for investment in renewable generation. Of course, a lot of the electricity still comes from carbon-rich fossil fuels too. The second is the underlying technology, blockchain, which has a number of interesting uses emerging in the cleantech space.
