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2023 C.E.
November 30 Wireless EV charging just made its U.S. public-road debut on a quarter-mile stretch of 14th Street in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood. Copper coils embedded beneath the pavement send electricity through a magnetic field to receivers mounted under compatible vehicles, topping up batteries with no plug, no stop, and no waiting. A Ford E-Transit van will gather real-world data over a five-year pilot, with city buses and delivery fleets as especially promising candidates down the road....
2023 C.E.
November 30 Clean ammonia shipping gets its first real-world test in 2026, when Norwegian chemicals company Yara launches the Yara Eyde — a container ship designed to run entirely on ammonia and cut about 11,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year. The vessel will sail a regular route between Norway and Germany, proving the technology under genuine commercial conditions rather than in a lab. Shipping moves roughly 90% of global trade and has long been considered...
2023 C.E.
November 22 Sustainable aviation fuel just crossed the Atlantic on its own, with no fossil jet fuel in the tank. A Gulfstream G600 flew from Savannah, Georgia to Farnborough, England in under seven hours, becoming the first aircraft to make the transatlantic journey on 100% SAF. The engines weren't modified for the trip, hinting that existing planes could one day run on cleaner fuel without expensive retrofits. Gulfstream now plans to share the flight data with...
2023 C.E.
November 17 The world's largest single-site solar plant just came online in the UAE, and it's powering nearly 200,000 homes from a stretch of desert outside Abu Dhabi. Al Dhafra generates 2 gigawatts of clean electricity and is expected to cut 2.4 million tonnes of carbon emissions each year — roughly the equivalent of taking 470,000 cars off the road. What makes it really remarkable, though, is the price: the project locked in one of the...
2023 C.E.
November 16 Prison education just crossed a remarkable threshold: sixteen men at Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois became the first incarcerated students in the U.S. to earn bachelor's degrees from a top-ten ranked university. Northwestern's program now enrolls around 100 students across two facilities, including a women's prison, with graduates already planning law school and youth-focused nonprofits. One graduate's mother, who hadn't seen her son in nearly two decades, watched him walk across the stage in...
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