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Optivolt Raises $32M to Build the Brain for Solar Panels of the Future

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Series A led by VXI Capital, with backing from the people who built modern solar, including founding Enphase CEO Paul Nahi, former SunPower CEO Tom Werner and former New York energy czar Richard Kauffman Nine years in the making, Optivolt’s energy intelligence turns passive solar hardware into adaptive power systems … [continued]

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Britain’s Buses Became More “Productive” While Running Less Service

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England outside London carried about 1.85 billion local-bus passenger journeys in 2024/25, compared with roughly 1.98 billion before COVID-19. Passenger journeys had recovered to 93.3% of their 2019/20 level, while bus service mileage had recovered to 86.0%. Put those two figures together and passenger journeys per service mile were about … [continued]

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First A Nazi Salute, Then Depriving Ukraine Of Internet Access: Musk Must Be Removed From Control Of Starlink

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Nobel Prize winning economist, Paul Krugman, wrote an important article this morning. In it, he decried Elon Musk and his decision to take down Ukraine’s access to Starlink, which allows the country to protect itself from Russian attacks through drone technology. “Did Elon Musk decide by personal fiat to cut … [continued]

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