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Tampa Bay Times (July 26)

2023/ 07/ 27 by jd in Global News

“A marine heat wave has brought alarmingly high water temperatures to the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. In Florida’s Manatee Bay, a reading of 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit broke an unofficial world record.” If approved, it “would shatter the current world record of 99.7 degrees, which was recorded in Kuwait Bay in the Persian Gulf, and confirmed by a study, in 2020.”

 

Gizmodo (January 12)

2023/ 01/ 13 by jd in Global News

“Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk has broken the world record for the person to lose the largest amount of personal wealth in history.” After losing an estimated $182 billion since November 2021, Musk has displaced the previous record “set in 2000 by Japanese tech investor Masayoshi Son.” Nevertheless, “Musk still remains the second-richest person in the world, falling right behind LVMH’s CEO Bernard Arnault.”

 

Wall Street Journal (February 10)

2022/ 02/ 12 by jd in Global News

European scientists have set a “nuclear-fusion energy world record” and the “findings suggest this approach can be scaled-up for use in power plants.” The experiment successfully “generated 59 megajoules of fusion energy for five seconds,” but “the researchers weren’t able to overcome a major obstacle: generating more energy than they had to put into the experiment.” A scaled-up version looks set to do so as early as 2025. Currently “35 firms globally are racing to be the first to create net-energy machines and to commercialize them by delivering electricity to the power grid.”

 

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