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Martian and Lunar Colonies To Be Powered By Nuclear Energy

Jim Conca

The NASA’s Kilopower project is developing a tiny nuclear reactor that is perfect for powering a colony on Mars or the Moon, fueling a large spacecraft to a distant star, or operating a mining operation in the asteroid belt. No other power source can do it.

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The Growing Appetite for Meat Alternatives in China

AFN Sustainable Protein

Editor’s Note: Bits x Bites is China’s first accelerator VC to invest in early-stage food tech startups. Built by a former BCG management consultant and founder of a Shanghai-based online farmers market, the program focuses on fostering transformative businesses to tackle China’s food safety and other systematic food challenges. Here the Bits x Bites team breaks down key trends and milestone announcements that have been happening in China—the world’s biggest market for meat. .

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This week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories — 1 February

Climate-KIC

How can businesses get their suppliers to act on climate? Which country’s power grid could absorb 40 per cent of the EV market share? And, can money really ‘grow on trees’? This, and more, in the week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories. 1. On finance, ‘Think Sustainability First’ ‘Think Sustainability First’ must be a principle […].

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Last Mile Learning: Motorbikes make the sales

Solar Sister

Solar Sister data shows that mobility, specifically access to motorbikes, is a major factor for success among Solar Sister entrepreneurs serving last mile communities. Mobility is most relevant when it comes to the ability to access a motorbike, known as “boda-boda” in Tanzania or “okada” in Nigeria. Comparing our sales data to transport access, Solar Sister finds that entrepreneurs with access to a motorbike for their businesses outperform all other entrepreneurs, even those with access to a pr

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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Memphis Meats Adds Tyson to Investor List With Cargill, Gates, Branson, Musk, more

AFN Sustainable Protein

*First Published August 23, 2017. Updated January 29, 2018 to reflect new investment from Tyson Foods. . Tyson Foods ‘ venture arm has joined the laundry list of well-known investors backing c ultured meat developer Memphis Meats. The San Francisco-based company raised a $17 million Series A round in August. The value of the Tyson investment was undisclosed other than to specify that Tyson has taken a minority stake in the company. .

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The Growing Appetite for Meat Alternatives in China

AFN Sustainable Protein

Editor’s Note: Bits x Bites is China’s first accelerator VC to invest in early-stage food tech startups. Built by a former BCG management consultant and founder of a Shanghai-based online farmers market, the program focuses on fostering transformative businesses to tackle China’s food safety and other systematic food challenges. Here the Bits x Bites team breaks down key trends and milestone announcements that have been happening in China—the world’s biggest market for meat. .

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New book promotes shift towards sustainable ‘clean meat’

Climate-KIC

Paul Shapiro of the Humane Society has released a new book, “Clean Meat: How Eating Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World,” which details how ‘clean meat’ (meat grown from animal cells, for example) could help mitigate climate change by replacing polluting factory farming practices. Farming, livestock, and clearing of land for agriculture […].