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I Sold a Tweet About My Future Cat on the Blockchain and Helped Kill the Earth in the Process
Meet Larry, a very good boy, forthcoming addition to the McKay household, and possibly the subject of one of the first-ever cat tweets to live on for eternity in the Ethereum blockchain.
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The Economic Case for Restoring Abandoned Oil Wells
A study published Monday in Nature Sustainability calculates that abandoned oil and gas wells cover more than 2 million acres of the U.S. And if that land is restored, it could deliver billions of dollars in benefit for a fraction of the cost of restoration.
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Elon Musk Is Reportedly Plugging a Giant Battery Into Texas
If the Texas power crisis taught us anything, it’s that the U.S. state has some serious infrastructure issues that not even the state’s regulators are prepared to fix. Thankfully, everyone’s favourite high-profile Twitter troll, Elon Musk, might have a plan: a giant battery ready to plug more than 16,000 homes’ worth of power into the…
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The World Wastes 1 Billion Tons of Food a Year, and It’s Frying the Planet
If you’ve ever overstuffed your fridge and let some leftovers go bad in the back of it, you’re not alone. People toss more than 1 billion tons of food in the trash every year, according to a new United Nations report. But it doesn’t have to be this way.